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hundred and eighteen pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence 

 per annum. Here then was a preceptory unnoticed by antiqua- 

 ries, between the village and Temple. Whatever the edifice of 

 the preceptory might have been, it has long since been dilapi- 

 dated , and the whole hamlet contains now only one mean farm- 

 house, 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 neigh- 

 bours. 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.* These feuds 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, f 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 which 

 cannot be ascertained, because they fell out before dates were 

 usually inserted; though probably they happened 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 



* J*OTITIA MONASTICA, P. 155. 



"Winchester, Newminster. King Alfred founded here first only a house and chapel for thr 

 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 dif- 

 ferences which were occasioned by their singing, bells, and other mat ers, 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. Gittbrd, bishop of Winton, founded a stately abbey /or then,. 

 St. Peter was generally accounted patron ; though it is sometimes called the monastery of St, 

 Grimbald, and sometimes of St. Barnabas," &c. 



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. 



t Robert Saunforde was master of the Temple in 1241 ; Guido de Foresta was the next in 129::. 

 The former is fifth in a list of the masters iu a MS. Bib. Cotton Nero. E. VI. 



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