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bridge : 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 build- 

 ing this bridge. " Jacobus de Hochangre tenet Hochangre in 

 com. Southampton, per Serjantiam, 9 inveniendi unum valectum 

 in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Henrici III Ui .] 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 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, 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 strete, we must confess, we do not understand. Strete, in 

 old English, signifies a road or highway, as Watling Strete, etc., 

 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 Oak- 

 hanger, and probably some on its other several manors. 11 The 

 mill of 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 wood-lands : and yet several centuries ago there 

 seem to have been two or three mills between Well Head and 

 the Priory. For the reason of this assertion, see Letter XXIX. 

 to Mr. Barrington. 



Occasional mention has been made of the many privileges 

 and immunities enjoyed by the convent and its priors ; but a 



