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THE ANTIQUITIES 



[LETT. 



poses, 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 " Tannnria sna," a tan-yard 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. 1 



Registr. B. pag. 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 parson- 

 age with the offerings at the chapel of Whaddon, belonging to 

 the said parsonage. Dat. June 1. 27"'. 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 : 2 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 bap- 

 tismal 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 



1 There is still a wood near the Priory, called Tanner's Wood. 



2 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. 



