XXV.] OF SELBORNE. 239 



visitor against the Priory on account of notorious and shameful 

 dilapidations. 1 



The Sel borne 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 con- 

 sists of one single blunt Gothic arch, so high and sharp as to 

 render the passage not very convenient or safe. Here was also, 

 \vc 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 Hoe- 

 liangre tenet Hochangre in com. Southampton, per Serjantium,' 2 

 inveiiiendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Hen- 

 rici 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 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 seda molendini, or ad molendinum : 3 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 

 Tanner, seda 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, &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 

 became possessed of one at Durton, and one at Oaklianger, and 



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

 edificationibus, et reparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per comput." 



" Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii lib. v . viii d. 

 - Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, canceller, et capellar. ecclesiarmn et 

 capellaruiu de Selborne, et Estworhlnin." &c. &c. 



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



3 " Servitiuih, quo feudatorii grana sua ad Domini moleudinum, ibi inolendu 

 perferre, ex consuetudine, astringuntur." 



