342 THE ANTIQUITIES 



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. 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 parsonage with the offerings at the 

 chapel at 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 : 2 but there are no 

 remains or traces of the building itself, the very founda- 

 tions 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. 3 



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. 



3 See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. " Summa total, solut. de novis 

 edificationibus, et reparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per comput." 



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

 vs. v\\\d. Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, canceller, et capellar. 

 ecclesiarum et capellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam." etc. etc. 



