810 THE ANTIQUITIES 



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. 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. Henrid IIP".] 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 appendage 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 : ^ a power of 

 compelling his vassels to bring their corn to be ground at his 

 mill, according to 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 mill originally at Selborne ; but, by grants of lands, it 

 came possessed of one at Durton, and one at Oakha?iger, and pro- 

 bably some on it's other several manors.^ The miill at 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 woodlands : and 

 yet several centuries ago there seem to have been two or three 



' Sargeniia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. 



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

 " perferre, ex consuetudine, astringuntur." 



■* Thomas Knowles^ president, &c. ann. Hen. 8vi. xxiii.o [viz. 1532.] demised 

 to /. Whitelie their mills, &c. for twenty years. Rent xxiiij. \\\\d. — Accepted 

 Frewen, president, &c. ann. Caroli xv. [viz, 1640.] demised to Jo. Hook and 

 Elizabeth., his wife, the said mills. Rent as above. 



