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gance, we shall not pretend to say ; nor when artists and me- 

 chanics 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 tanyard of their own, has been men- 

 tioned in Letter XVI. This circumstance I just take notice 

 of, as an instance that monasteries had trades and occupations 

 carried on within themselves. 6 



Registr. B., p. 112. Here we find a lease of the parsonage 

 of Selborne to Thomas Sylvester and Miles Arnold, husband- 

 men 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 Oak- 

 hanger, at about two miles' distance from the village. The 

 farm and field whereon it stood are still called Chapel Farm and 

 Field : 7 but there are no remains or traces of the building itself, 

 the very foundations having been destroyed before the memory 

 of man. In the farmyard 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 seques- 

 tration issued forth by that visitor against the Priory on 

 account of notorious and shameful dilapidations. 8 



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 Tun- 





