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only conveyed the water to the priory for common and culinary 
purposes, or contributed to any matters of ornament and elegance, 
we shall not pretend to say ; nor when artists and mechanics first 
understood anything of hydraulics, and that water confined in 
- tubes would rise to its original level. There is a person now 
living who had been employed formerly in digging for these 
pipes, and once discovered several yards, which they sold for 
old lead. 
There was also a plot of ground called Tan-house garden: and 
“Tannaria sua,” a tan-yard of their own, has been mentioned in 
Letter XVI. This circumstance I just take notice of, as an instance 
that monasteries had trades and occupations carried on within 
themselves.* 
Registr. B., p. 112. Here we find a lease of the parsonage of 
Selborne to Thomas Sylvester and Miles Arnold, husbandmen— 
of the tythes of all manner of corne pertaining to the parsonage— 
with the offerings at the chapel of Whaddon belonging to the said 
parsonage. Dat. June 1. 27%. Hen. 8. [viz. 1536]. 
As the chapel of Whaddon has never been mentioned till now, 
and as it is not noticed by Bishop Tanner in his “ Notitia 
Monastica,” some more particular account of it will be proper 
in this place. Whaddon was a chapel of ease to the mother 
church of Selborne, and was situated in the tithing of Oakhanger, 
at about two miles distance from the village. The farm and field 
whereon it stood are still called chapel farm and field: + but there 
are no remains or traces of the building itself, the very foundations 
having been destroyed before the memory of man. In a farm-yard 
at Oakhanger we remember a large hollow stone, of a close sub- 
stance, which had been used as a hog-trough, but was then broken. 
This stone, tradition said, had been the baptismal font of Whaddon 
chapel. The chapel had been in a very ruinous state in old days; 
but was new-built at the instance of Bishop Wainfleet, about the 
year 1463, during the first priorship of Berne, in consequence of 
a sequestration issued forth by that visitor against the priory on 
account of notorious and shameful dilapidations. ¢ 
* There is still a wood near the Priory, called Tanner’s Wood. 
+ This is a manor-farm, at present the property of Lord Stawell; and belonged probably 
in ancient times to Jo. de Venur, or Venuz, one of the first benefactors to the Priory. 
t See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. —‘‘ Summa total. solut. de novis edificationibus, 
et raparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per comput.”” 
**Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii. lib. vs. viiid.—Repara- 
cionibus ecclesie Prioratus, cancellor. et capellar. ecclesiarum et capellarum de Selborne, 
et Estworhlam.’’—&c., &c. 
