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minster of Hyde in the city of Winchester. 1 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, 2 and Eichard Carpenter was 

 preceptor, the Templars and the Priors lived in an inter- 

 course 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 ih. 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, (t per manum preceptoris, 



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 

 01 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 Ethel- 

 wold. 



*' 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 reli- 

 gious 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 crozier in good 

 preservation. G. W. 



2 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. G. W. 



