THE ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE 305 



of a sequestration issued forth by that visitor against the 

 Priory on account of notorious and shameful dilapidations. 1 



The Selborne rivulet becomes of some breadth at Oak- 

 hanger, and, in very wet seasons, swells to a large flood. 

 There is a bridge over the stream at this hamlet of con- 

 siderable antiquity and peculiar shape, known by the name 

 of Tunbridge : it consists of one single blunt got/tic arch, so 

 high and sharp as to render the passage not very con- 

 venient 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? 

 inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. 

 Henrici III 111 .] per 40 dies; et ad faciendum pontem de 

 Hochangre'. et valet per ann. C. s." " Blounfs 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 molendinum ; 3 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, &c., therefore the prior might 

 have some mill on a high road. The Priory had only one 



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

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



"Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii. lib. vs. viiu/. 

 Reparacionibus ecclesie, Prioratus, canceller, et capellar. ecclesiarum et capellarum 

 de Selborne, et Estworhlam."&c., &c. [G. W.] 



2 Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. [G. W.] 



8 "Servitium, quo feudatorii grana sua ad Domini molendinum, ibi molenda 

 perferre, ex consuetidine, astringuntur." [G. W.] 



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