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the eaft of the village. Bifliop I'anncr mentions only two fuch 
houfes of the 'Templars in all the county of Southampton, viz. Godef- 
field, founded by Henry de Blois, bifliop of IV'mcheJler, and South 
Badeijley, a preceptory of the Knights Templars, and afterwards of 
St. John of Jervfalem, valued at one hundred and eighteen pounds 
fixteen fliillings and feven pence per annum. Here then was a 
preceptory unnoticed by antiquaries, between the village zn^Temple. 
Whatever the edifice of the preceptory might have been, it has long 
lince been dilapidated; and the whole hamlet contains now only 
one mean farm-houfe, though there were two in the memory of 
man. 
It has been ufaal for the religious of different orders to fall into 
great diffenfions, and efpecially when they were near neighbours. 
Inftances of this fort we have heard of between the monks of 
It is obfervable that the ve-.y ftatute for the difiblution of the Hofpltalars holds the 
fame language; for there, in the enumeration of particulars, occur " commandries, pre- 
" ceptories."" Codex, p. 1190. Now this intercommunity of names, and that in an a(5t 
of parliament too, made forae of our ableft antiquaries look upon tl preceptory and com- 
mandry as ftriftly fynonymous ; accordingly we find Camden, in his Britannia, t^'^X^xn- 
iiig praceptoria in the text by a commandrj in the margin, p. 356. 5:0. 
J. L. 
Commandry, a manor or chief meffuage with lands, &c. belonging to the priory of 
St. Jol:n of Jerufalem ; and he who had the government of fuch houfe was called the 
commander, who could not difpofe of it but to the ufe of the priory, only taking thence 
his own fuftenance, according to his degree, who was ufually a brother of the fame- 
priory. Coivell. He adds (confounding thefe with preceptories) they are in many 
places termed Temples, as Temple Bntere in Llncolnjhire, &c. Preceptories were pofTeffed 
by the more eminent fort of Templar s^ whom the chief malter created and called Fmcep- 
iores Templl. Coivell, who refers to Stephens de Jurifd. lib. 4. c. 10. num. 27. 
Placlta de juratis et alTis coram Salom. de Roff et fociis fuis juftic. Itiner. apud 
Wynton. &c. anno regni R. Edwardi fil. Reg. Hen. oftavo.— " et Magr. Milicie Tem- 
«' pli in Angl. htemendafse panis, &fuis [cerevifia;] in Sodington, & nefcint q". war. et 
« — et magift. Milicie Templi ncn vtn io diitr." Ckapter-honfe, IVtjlmlvJier. 
Canterbury; 
