All the houses of the Temple in Holland and the Netherlands were under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Temple at Paris. The preceptories in these kingdoms were very numerous, and the property dependent upon them was of great value. In ENGLAND there were in bygone times the preceptories of Aslakeby, Temple Bruere, Egle, Malteby, Mere, Wilketon, and Witham, in _Lincolnshire_. North Feriby, Temple Hurst, Temple Newsom, Pafflete, Flaxflete, and Ribstane, in _Yorkshire_. Temple Cumbe, in _Somersetshire_. Ewell, Strode and Swingfield, near Dover, in _Kent_. Hadescoe, in _Norfolk_. Balsall and Warwick, in _Warwickshire_. Temple Rothley, in _Leicestershire_. Wilburgham Magna, Daney, and Dokesworth, in _Cambridgeshire_. Halston, in _Shropshire_. Temple Dynnesley, in _Hertfordshire_. Temple Cressing and Sutton, in _Essex_. Saddlescomb and Chapelay, in _Sussex_. Schepeley, in _Surrey_. Temple Cowley, Sandford, Bistelesham, and Chalesey, in _Oxfordshire_. Temple Rockley, in _Wiltshire_. Upleden and Garwy, in _Herefordshire_. South Badeisley, in _Hampshire_. Getinges, in _Worcestershire_. Giselingham and Dunwich, in _Suffolk_. There were also several smaller administrations established, as before mentioned, for the management of the farms and lands, and the collection of rent and tithes. Among these were Liddele and Quiely in the diocese of Chichester; Eken in the diocese of Lincoln; Adingdon, Wesdall, Aupledina, Cotona, &c. The different preceptors of the Temple in England had under their management lands and property in every county of the realm.[37] In _Leicestershire_ the Templars possessed the town and the soke of Rotheley; the manors of Rolle, Babbegrave, Gaddesby, Stonesby, and Melton; Rothely wood, near Leicester; the villages of Beaumont, Baresby, Dalby, North and South Mardefeld, Saxby, Stonesby, and Waldon, with land in above _eighty_ others! They had also the churches of Rotheley, Babbegrave, and Rolle; and the chapels of Gaddesby, Grimston, Wartnaby, Cawdwell, and Wykeham.[38]