OF SELBORNE. 365 



safe. I Fere was also, we find, a bridge in very early times; 

 for Jacobus de Hochangre^ the first benefactor to the Priory of 

 Xi'//H>rne, held his estate at Ilochanyre by the service of pro- 

 viding the king one foot-soldier for forty days, and by build- 

 ing this bridge. " Jacobus de Hochangre tenet Hochangre in 

 com. Southampton per Serjantiam? inveniendi unum valectum 

 in exercitu Domini regis [soil. Henrici IIP".] per 40 dies ; et 

 ad faciendum pontem de Hochangre: et valet per ann. C. s." 



Shunt's Ancient Tenures, p. 84. 



A dove-house was a constant appendage to a inanerial dwell- 

 ing : 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, of ad molendinumi* a power 

 of compelling his vassals to bring their corn to be ground at 

 his mill, according to old custom. He had also, according to 

 bishop Tannery secta molendini de Strete: but the purport of 

 Strete j we must confess, we do not understand. Strete, in old 

 English, signifies a road or highway, as Wailing 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 it's other several manors. 1 

 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 incon- 

 venience was probably never felt in old times, when the whole 

 district was nothing but woodlands: and yet several centuries 



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



k " Servitium, quo feudatorii grana sua ad Domini molendinum, ibi 

 " molenda perferre, ex consuetudine, astringuntur." 



1 Thomas Knowles, president, &c. ann. Hen 8vi. xxiii. [viz. 1632.] de- 

 mised to J. Whitelie their mills, &c. for twenty years. Rent xxiii*. mid. 

 Accepted Frewen, president, &c. ann. Caroli xv. [viz. 1G40.] demised to 

 Jo. Hook and Elizabeth, his wife, the said mills. Rent as above. 



