296 THE ANTIQUITIES 



arose probably from different 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 

 Robert Saunford was master, 1 and Richard Carpenter was 

 preceptor, the Templars and the Priors lived in an inter- 

 course of mutual good offices. 



My papers mention three transactions, the exact time of 

 which cannot be ascertained, because they fell out before 

 dates were usually inserted ; though probably they hap- 

 pened about the middle of the thirteenth century; not 

 long after Saunford became master. The first of these is 

 that the Templars shall pay to the priory of Selborne, 

 annually, the sum of ten shillings at two half yearly 

 payments from their chamber, " camera," at Sudington, 

 " per manum preceptoris, vel ballivi nostri, qui pro tempore 

 fuerit ibidem," till they can provide the prior and canons 

 with an equivalent in lands or rents within four or five 

 miles of the said convent. It is also further agreed that, 

 if the Templars shall be in arrears for one year, that then 



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.D. 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," etc. 



Note. A few years since a county bridewell, or house of correction, 

 has been built on the immediate site of Hide Abbey. In digging up 

 the old foundations the workmen found the head of a crosier in good 

 preservation. 



1 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. 



