ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 371 



foundations having been destroyed before the memory of man. 

 In the farmyard at Oakhanger we remember a large hollow stone, 

 of a close substance, which had been used as a hog-trough, but 

 was then broken. This stone, tradition said, had been the 

 baptismal font of Whaddon chapel. The chapel had been in 

 a very ruinous state in old days ; but was new-built at the instance 

 of Bishop Wainfleet, about w the year 1463, during the first prior- 

 ship of Berne, in consequence of a sequestration issued forth by 

 that visitor against the priory on account of notorious and shame- 

 ful dilapidations.* 



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,t inveni- 

 endi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Henrici III tu .] 

 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 manerial 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 molendini, or ad mokndinum ; \ a power of 



* See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. " Summa total, solut. de novis 

 edificationibus, et raparacionibus per idem tempus, tit patet per comput." 



" Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii. lib. v s. viiiaT. 

 Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, csncellor. et capellar. ecclesiarum et ca- 

 pellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam." etc., etc. 



t Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. 



J " Servitium, quo feudatorii granasua ad Domini molendinum, ibimolenda 

 perferre, ex consuetidine, astringuntur. n 



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