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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 j 
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 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 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 
* 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 w^ll 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.B. 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 Edward I., at the 
instance of Will. Gififord, 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 smce 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 vras 
the next in 1292. The former is fiXth in a liat of the masters, in a MS. **Bib. 
Cstto, Nero. E. YI." 
