OF SELBORNE. 561 



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 evi- 

 dences extend, and while Robert Saunford was master 3 , 

 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 proba- 

 bly 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 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 



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 sing- 

 ing, 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," &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 preser- 

 vation. 



3 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. 



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