2/8 WHITE 



though it is sometimes called the monastery of St. Grimbald, and sometimes 

 of St. Barnabas," etc. G. W. 



A few years since a county bridewell, or house of correction, has been 

 built on the immediate site of Hyde Abbey. In digging up the old founda- 

 tions the workmen found the head of a crosier in good preservation. 

 G. C. D. 



8 Robert Saunforde was master of the Temple in 1241 ; Guido de Foresta 

 was the next in 1292. The former is fifth in a list of the masters, in a MS. 

 "Bib. Cotton. Nero. E. VI." G. W. 



4 Americus Vasci, by his name, must have been an Italian, and had been 

 probably a soldier of fortune, and one of Gurdon's captains. Americus 

 Vespucio, the person who gave name to the new world, was a Florentine. 

 G. W. 



6 In two or three ancient records relating to St. Oswald's Hospital in the 

 city of Worcester, printed by Dr. Nash, pp. 227, 228, of his collections for 

 the history of Worcestershire, the words preceptorium and preceptoria signify 

 the mastership of the said hospital : " ad preceptorium sive magisterium 

 presentavit preceptorii sive magisterii patronas. Vacavit dicta preceptoria 

 seu magisterium ad preceptoriam et regimen dicti hospitalis Te pre- 

 ceptorem sive magistrum prefecimus." 



Where preceptorium denotes a building or apartment it may probably 

 mean the master's lodgings, or at least the preceptor's apartment, whatsoever 

 may have been the office or employment of the said preceptor. 



A preceptor is mentioned inThoresby's "Ducatus Leodiensis," or "His- 

 tory of Leeds," p. 225, and a deed witnessed by the preceptor and chaplain 

 before dates were inserted. Du Fresne's Supplement : " Preceptorise, prae- 

 dia preceptoribus assignata." Cowell, in his " Law Dictionary," enumerates 

 sixteen preceptoriae, or preceptories, in England ; but Sudington is not 

 among them. It is remarkable that Gurtlerus, in his "Historia Tem- 

 plariorum," Amstel. 1691, never once mentions the words preceptor or 

 preceptorium. G. W. 



LETTER XII 



THE ladies and daughter of Sir Adam Gurdon were not the 

 only benefactresses to the Priory of Selborne ; for, in the year 

 1281, Ela Longspee obtained masses to be performed for her 

 soul's health ; and the prior entered into an engagement that 

 one of the convent should every day say a special mass for- 

 ever for the said benefactress, whether living or dead. She 

 also engaged within five years to pay to the said convent one 

 hundred marks of silver for the support of a chantry and chantry 

 chaplain, who should perform his masses daily in the parish 

 church of Selborne. 1 In the east end of the south aisle there 



