OF SELBORiNE. 
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Canterbury; and again between the old abbey of St. Swythm, and 
the comparatively new minfter of Hyde in the city of IVinchsJler 
Thefe feuds arofe probably from different orders being crowded 
within the narrow limits of a city, or garrifon-town, where every 
inch of ground was precious, and an objecfl of contention. But 
with us, as far as my evidences extend, and while Robert Saunford 
was mafter °, and Richard Carpenter was preceptor, the T emplars and 
the Priors lived in an intercourfe of mutual good offices. 
My papers mention three tranfadions, the exa6t time of which 
cannot be afcertained, becaufe they fell out before dates were 
Notitia Mo}iaJlica, p. 155. 
" " Whtcl)efler, Newm'tnfler. King Alfred founded here firil only a Iioure and chapel 
for the learned monk Grhnhald, whom he had brought out of Flanders : but after- 
"Jwards projefted, and by liis will ordered, a noble church or religious houfe to be'built 
" in the cemetery on the north fide of the old minfter or cathedral; and defined that Gr'm- 
" bald fhould prefide over it. This was begun A. D. 901, and finiftied to the honour 
" of the Holy Trinity, Virgin Mary, and St. Peter, by his fon king Edujard, who placed 
" therein fecular canons : but A. D. 963 they were expelled, and an abbot and monks 
" put in poffeffion by bifliop EtIiel<wold. 
" Now the churches and habitations of thefe two focietics being fo very near together, 
*' the differences which were occafioned by their finging, bells, and other matters, arofe 
*' to fo great a height, that the religious of the new monaftery thought. fit, about A. D. 
*' 1 1 19, to remove to abetter and more quiet lituation without the walls, on the north 
" part of the city called Hyde, where king Henry I. at the inftance of JVill. GifforJ, 
" bilhop of Winton, founded a ftately abbey for them. S t. ?eter v/as genera'ly accounted 
patron; though it is fometimes called the monaftery of St. Grmbald, and fometimes 
*' of St. Barnabas,''^ &c. 
Note, A few years fince a county bridewell, or houfe of correiSlion, has been built 
on the immediate fite of Hide Abbey. In digging up the old foundations the workmen 
found the head of a crofier in good prefervation. 
" Robert Saunforde was mafier of the Temple in iHi 5 Guido de Forefla vz-s the next 
in 1292. The former is fifth in a lift of the mafters in a MS. .Bib. Cotton. Nsro. 
E.VI. 
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