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at Sudington, now called Southington, a hamlet lying one mile to the 

 east of the village. Bishop Tanner mentions only two such houses of 

 the Templars in all the county of Southampton, viz., Godesfield, founded 

 by Henry de Blois, 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 preceptory 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.* 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 equivalent in lands or rents within four or 

 five miles of the said convent. It is also further agreed that, if the 



* NOTTJTIA 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 

 matters, arose to so great a height, that the religious of the new monastery thought 

 fit, about A.D. 1119, to remove to abettor and more quiet situation without the 

 walls, on the north part of the city called Hyde, where King Edward 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 preservation. 



t 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." 



