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minster of Hyde in tlie city of Winchester.' These feuda 
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 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 iss that the 
Templars shall pay to the prio):y of Selborne, annually, the 
sum of ten shillings at two half yearly payments from their 
chamber, camera/' at Sudington, per manum preceptoris, 
^ 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 
uf 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- 
mg, 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. 
Giffbrd, Bishop of Winton, fiaunded a stately abbey for them. S^. 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. 
