G18 ANTIQUITIES 



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 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 them- 

 selves 7 . 



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 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 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 8 : but there are no remains or traces of the build- 

 ing itself, the very foundations having been destroyed 

 before the memory of man. In a farm yard at Oak- 

 hanger 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 



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



8 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. 



