OF SELBORNE. 619 



consequence of a sequestration issued forth by that 

 visiter against the Priory on account of notorious and 

 shameful dilapidations 9 . 



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 10 . 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 11 inveniendi unum 

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

 per 40 dies ; et ad faciendum pontem de Hochangre : 

 et valet per annn. C. s." Blount's Ancient Tenures, 

 p. 84. 



A dove-house was a constant appendant to a mane- 

 rial 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 molendinum: a 



9 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. vs. 

 viiid. Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, canceller, et capellar. eccle- 

 siarum et capellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam." &c. &c. 



10 Inconvenient antiquity has, in this instance, recently given way to 

 modern use. The little bridge over the rivulet at Oakhanger is now low 

 and easy of passage : it consists of three small arches. E. T. B. 



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



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

 molenda perferre, ex consuetudine, astring^untur." 



