Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (8)Hyde
Hyde Abbey
New Minster
Alfred
Edward the Elder
St Grimbald
St Judocus
Denamrk Meadow
Warwick, Earl of
Colbrand
The sub[urbe without the northe gate berithe the name of Hyde].
In this suburbe stoode the great abbay of Hyde, and hath yet a paroche chirche.
This abbay was ons caullid Newanminstre and stoode in the Close hard by S. Swithunes, otherwise then caullid Ealdenminstre.
But when it was translatid thens to Hyde it bare the name of Hyde.
The bones of Alfredus, King of the West-Saxons, and of Edward his sunne and king, were translatid from Newanminstre, and layid in a tumbe before the high altare at Hyde: in the which tumbe was a late founde 2. litle tables of leade inscribid with theyr names. And here lay also the bones of S. Grimbald and Judoce.
Minns:- St. Grimbald, a monk of St. Bertin Monastery in Artois, brought to England by Alfred to assist in founding his University of Oxford. After Alfred's death Grimbald completed the Newanminstre. 'St. Judocus, or Josse, a French saint whose bones were brought to Winchester and admitted into Grimbald's Church, where his shrine became a centre of devotion.' - Kitchin's Winchester, p.19
Minns:- Of Hyde abbey all that now remains are some portions of the walls, a gateway, and a few small door-ways of the fifteenth century, and some fragments of an earlier period built in the neighbouring walls.
On the south side of Hyde Abbay betwixt it and the waulle is a meadow caullid Denmark, wher the fame is that Guido Erle of Warwik killid great Colebrande the Dane singulari certamine.
Minns:- Guy, Earl of Warwick, according to the legend, slew Colbrand, champion of the Danes, cut off the giant's head and brought it in triumph into the city.
There is yet a paroche chirch yn Hyde suburbe.
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