OF SELBORNE 343 



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 

 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. South- 

 ampton per Serjantiam,^ inveniendi unum valectum in 

 exercitu Domini regis [scil. Henrici 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 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 mokndini, or ad molendinum : ^ 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, 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, etc. 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 Oakhanger, 

 and probably some on its other several manors.* The 



^ Sargentia, 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, etc. ann. Hen. 8vi. xxiii." [viz. IS 32] 

 demised to J. Whitelie their mills, etc. for twenty years. Rent xxiiij. 

 \md. — Accepted Frewen, president, etc. ann. Caroli xv. [viz. 1640] 

 demised to Jo. Hook and Elizabeth, his wife, the said mills. Rent as 

 above. 



