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was new built at the instance of Bishop Wainfleet, aboui 
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/ 
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.'^ 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 8er- 
jantiam^ inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini 
regis [scil. Henricii 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 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 molendini, or ad molendinum a 
power of compelling his vassals to bring their corn to be 
* See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. — " Summa total, solut. de 
novis edificationibus, 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, cancellor. et capellar. eccle- 
siarum et capellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam." — &c. &c. 
^ 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. 
^ Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. — G. W. 
" Servitium, quo feudatorii grana sua ad Domini molendinum, ibi 
molenda perferre, ex consuetudine, astringuntur." — G. W. 
