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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?- 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 pay- 

 ments 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 

 the prior shall be empowered to distrain upon their live 

 stock in Bradeseth. The next matter was a grant from 

 Robert de Saunford to the priory for ever, of a good and 

 sufficient road, " cheminum," capable of admitting carriages, 

 and proper for the drift of their larger cattle, from the way 

 which extends from Sudington towards Blakemere, on to 

 the lands which the convent possesses in Bradeseth. 



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 L, 

 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 Hide Abbey. In digging up the old foundations 

 the workmen found the head of a crosier in good preservation. [G. W.] 



1 Robert Saunforde was master of the Temple in 1241 ; Guide 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." [G. W.] 



