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Henry de Blots, bishop of Winchester, and South Badeisley, 

 a preceptory of the Knights Templars, and afterwards of 

 St. John of Jerusalem, valued at one hundred and eighteen 

 pounds sixteen shillings and sevenpence per annum. Here 

 then was a preceptory unnoticed by antiquaries, between 

 the village and Temple. Whatever the edifice of the pre- 

 ceptory might have been, it has long since been dilapidated ; 

 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 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 



and commandry as strictly synonymous; accordingly we find Camden, in his 

 " Britannia" explaining praceptoria in the text by a commandry in the margin, 

 p. 356, 510. J. L. 



Commandry, a manor or chief messuage with lands, c., belonging to the 

 priory of St. John of Jerusalem ; and he who had the government of such house 

 was called the commander, who could not dispose of it but to the use of the 

 priory, only taking thence his own sustenance, according to his degree, who was 

 usually a brother of the same priory. Co-well. He adds (confounding these with 

 preceptories) they are in many places termed Temples, as Temple Bruere in 

 Lincolnshire, &c. Preceptories were possessed by the more eminent sort of 

 Templars, whom the chief master created and called Praceptores Templi. Cowell, 

 who refers to Stephens Dejurisd. lib. iv. c. 10, no. 27. 



Placita de juratis et assis coram Salom. de Roff et sociis suis justic. Itiner. 

 apud Wynton, &c., annon regni R. Edwardi fil. Reg. Hen. octavo. "et Magr. 

 Milicie Templi in Angl. ht emendasse panis, et suis [cerevisiae] in Sodington, et 

 nescint q. war. et et magist. Milicie Templi non ven io distr." Chapter House, 

 Westminster.-^. W.] 



1 Notitia Monastica, 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 



