366 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
The Selborne rivulet becomes of some breadth at Oakhanger, 
and, in very wet seasons, swells to a large flood. There is a bridge 
over the stream at this hamlet of considerable antiquity and peculiar 
shape, known by the name of Tunbridge: it consists of one single 
blunt Gothic arch, so high and sharp as to render the passage not 
very convenient or safe. Here was also, we find,a bridge in very 
early times ; for Jacobus de Hochangre, the first benefactor to the 
priory of Selborne, held his estate at Hochangre by the service 
of providing the king one foot-soldier for forty days, and by 
building this bridge. “Jacobus de Hochangre tenet Hochangre 
in com. Southampton, per Serjantiam,* inveniendi unum valectum 
in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Henrici III“.] per 40 dies; et ad 
faciendum pontem de Hochangre: et valet per ann. C, s.”— 
“Blount’s Ancient Tenures,” p. 84. 
A dove-house was a constant appendant to a manorial dwelling : 
of this convenience more will be said hereafter. 
A corn-mill was also esteemed a necessary appendage of every 
manor ; and therefore was to be expected of course at the priory 
of Selborne. 
The prior had secta molendint, or ad molendinum,+ a power of 
compelling his vassals to bring their corn to be ground at his mill, 
according to an old custom. He had also, according to Bishop 
Tanner, secta molendini de strete; but the purport of stvete, we 
must confess, we do not understand. S¢reze, in old English, 
signifies a road or highway, as Watling Strete, &c., therefore 
the prior might have some mill on a high road. The priory had 
only one mill originally at Selborne ; but, by grants of lands, it 
came possessed of one at Durton, and one at Oakhanger, and 
probably some on its other several manors.{ The mill at the 
priory was in use within the memory of man, and the ruins of the 
mill-house were standing within these thirty years: the pond and 
dam, and miller’s dwelling, still remain. As the stream was apt 
to fail in very dry summers, the tenants found their situation very 
distressing, for want of water, and so were forced to abandon the 
spot. This inconvenience was probably never felt in old times, 
when the whole district was nothing but woodlands; and yet 
* Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. 
t ‘‘ Servitium, quo feudat»rii grana sua ad Domini molendinum, ibi molenda perferre, 
ex consuetidine, astringuntur.’” 
t Thomas Knowles, president, &c., ann. Hen. 8vi. xxiii®. [1532] demised to J. Whitelie 
their mills. &c., for twenty years. Rent xxiiis. iilid—Accepted Frewen, president, &c., 
ann. Caroli xv. [viz. 1640.] demised to Jo. Hook and Elizabeth his wife, the said mills. 
Rent as above. 
