370 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



of water that never fails ; at the head of which a cistern was built 

 which communicated with leaden pipes that conveyed water to 

 the monastery. When this reservoir was first constructed does 

 not appear; we only know that it underwent a repair in the 

 episcopate of Bishop Wainfleet, about the year 1462.* Whether 

 these pipes 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.t 



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 i. 27 th . Hen. 8 th . [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 : i but 

 there are no remains or traces of the building itself, the very 



* N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochial! de Seleburne, ixj. ink/. 

 Reparacionibus domorum predict! prioratus iiii. lib. xis. Aque conduct, 

 ibidem, xxiik/." 



f 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. 



