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THE ANTIQUITIES 
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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 dif- 
ferent 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 Eobert Saunford was master,^ and Richard 
Carpenter was preceptor, the Templars and the Priors lived in 
an intercourse of mutual good offices. 
My papers mention tliree transactions, the exact time of 
^ 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 
F'anders : 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 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. Gifi^ord, Bishop of Winton, founded a 
stately abbey for them. St. Peter was generally accounted patron ; though 
it is sometimes caUed 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. 
^ 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. 
