ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 397 



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 Notitia Monas- 

 tica, 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 :* 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. f 



The Selborne rivulet becomes of some breadth at Oakhanger, 

 and, in very wet seasons, swells to a large flood. There is a 

 bridge over the stream at this hamlet of considerable 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 safe. Here was also, we find, 

 a bridge in very early times; for Jacobus de Hochangre, the 

 first benefactor to the Priory of Selborne, held his estate at 

 Hochangre by the service of providing the king one foot-soldier 

 for forty days, and by building this bridge. " Jacobus de Hoch- 

 angre tenet Hochangre in com. Southampton, per Serjantiam,} 

 inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Hen- 

 rici III*".] per 40 dies ; et ad faciendum pontem de Hochangre : 

 et valet per ann. C. s." 



Blount's Ancient Tenures, p. 84. 



* This is a manor-farm, at present the propert)' of Lord Stawell; and belonged prpbably in 

 ancient times to Jo. de Venur, or Venuz, one of the first benefactors to the Priory. 



t See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. " Summa total, solut. de uovis edificationibus, et 

 reparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per comput." 



" Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii lib. v s . viii d. Repsracionibus 

 ecclesie Prioratus, canceller, ct capellar. ecclcsiarum et capellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam." 

 &c. &c. 



t Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. 



