OF SELBORNE. 
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visitor against tlie Priory on account of notorious and shameful 
dilapidations. 
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 con- 
sists of one single bkint Gothic arch, so high and sharp as to 
render the passage not very convenient or safe. Here Avas 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 Hoc- 
hangre tenet Hochangre in com. Southampton, per Serjantiam,^ 
inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Hen- 
rici Ill^^i.] per 40 dies ; et ad faciendum pontem de Hochangre : 
et valet per ann. C. s." — Blount's ^?^c^6?^^ Tenures, p. 84. 
A dove-liouse was a constant appendant to a manorial dwell- 
ing : 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 secia molencUiii, or cid molenclinum •? 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 molcndini 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 
became possessed of one at Durton, and one at Oakhanger, and 
^ See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. Suuima total, solut. de novis 
edificationibus, et reparacionibiis per idem tempus, ut patet percomput." 
" Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii lib. v s. viii d. 
— Eeparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, cancellor. et capellar. ecclesiaruni et 
capellarum de Selborne, et Estworlilam." — &c. &c. 
Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. 
^ " Servitinm, quo feudiitorii grana sua ad Domini molendinum, ibi molenda 
perferre, ex consuetudine, astringuntur." 
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