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Registr. B. pag. 112. Here we find a lease of the par- 

 sonage 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 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 Notitla 

 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 Oak- 

 hanger, 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 substance, 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. 11 



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 consider- 

 able 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 



* 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. 



h See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities." Sunima total, solut. de 

 " novis edificationibus, et reparacionibus per idem tempus, ut palet per 

 " comput." 



" Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie, de Wadden. xiiii. lib. 

 "\s viiid. Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, cancellor. et.capellar. ec- 

 " clesiarum et capellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam" &c. e, 



