ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 321 



Here then was a preceptory unnoticed by angquaries, between the 

 village and Temple. Whatever the 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.* 

 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,t 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 equiva- 

 lent in lands or rents within four or five miles of the said convent. 



NOTITIA MOXASTICA, p. 155. 



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

 the learned monk Grimbald, whom he had brjught out of Flanders ; but afterwards 

 projected, and by his will ordered, a noble Church or rel.gious 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 matter?, 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 Edward I., tt the instance of Will. Giffjrd, bishop of 

 Wmton, 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. 



t Robert Saunforde was Master of the Temple in 1241 ; Guldo de Foresta was the next 

 in 1232. The former is fifth in a list of the masters, in a MS. "Bib. Cotton. Nero. 

 E. VI." 



