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was new built at the instance of Bishop Wainfleet, about 

 the year 1463, during the first priorship of Berne, in con- 

 sequence 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 Gothic arch, 

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

 venient or safe. 2 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 Hoch- 

 angre tenet Hochangre in com. Southampton, per Ser- 

 jantiam 3 inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini 

 regis [scil. Henricii IIP 1 .] 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 

 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 molendinij or ad molendinum : 4 a 

 power of compelling his vassals to bring their corn to be 



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

 novis edifieationibus, et reparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per 

 comput." 



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

 viii d. Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, canceller, et capellar. eccle- 

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



2 Inconvenient antiquity has, in this instance, given way to modern 

 convenience. The little bridge is now low and easy of passage, and con- 

 sists of three small arches instead of one. ED. 



3 Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. G. W. 



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

 molenda perferre, ex consuetudine, astringuntur." G. W. 



