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edifice of the preceptory might have been, it has long since 

 been dilapidated; and the whole hamlet contains now only 

 one mean farmhouse, though there were two in the memory 

 of man. 



It has been usual for the religious of different orders to fall 

 into great dissensions, and especially when they were near 

 neighbours. Instances of this sort we have heard of between 

 the monks of Canterbury; and again between the old abbey 

 of St. Swythun, and the comparatively new minster of Hyde in 

 the city of Winchester. 1 These feuds arose probably from dif- 

 ferent orders being crowded within the narrow limits of a city, 

 or garrison-town, where every inch of ground was precious, and 

 an object of contention. But with us, as far as my evidences 

 extend, and while Eobert Saunford was master, 2 and Richard 

 Carpenter was preceptor, the Templars and the Priors lived in 

 an intercourse of mutual good offices. 



My papers mention three transactions, the exact time of 



1 Notitia Monastics,, p. 155. 



" Winchester, Newminster. King Alfred founded here first only a house 

 and chapel for the learned monk Grimbald, whom he had brought out of 

 Flanders : but afterwards projected, and by his will ordered, a noble church 

 or religious house to be built in the cemetery on the north side of the old 

 minster or cathedral ; and designed that Grimbald should preside over it. 

 This was begun A.D. 901, and finished to the honour of the Holy Trinity, 

 Virgin Mary, and St. Peter, by his son King Edward, who placed therein 

 secular canons : but A.D. 963, they were expelled, and an abbot and monks 

 put in possession by Bishop Ethelwold. 



" Now the churches and habitations of these two societies being so very 

 near together, the differences which were occasioned by their singing, bells, 

 and other matters, arose to so great a height, that the religious of the new 

 monastery thought fit, about A.I>. 1119, to remove to a better and more quiet 

 situation without the walls, on the north part of the city called HYDE, where 

 King Henry I. at the instance of Will. Gifford, Bishop of Winton, founded a 

 stately abbey for them. St. Peter was generally accounted patron ; though 

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

 St. Barnabas," &c. 



Note. 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 

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



2 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. 



