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only conveyed the water to the priory for common and culinary 

 purposes, 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 

 " 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.* 



Registr. B., p. 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 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 : f 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 sub- 

 stance, 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. % 



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



t 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. 



| See Letter XIX. of these Anti4uiiies. " Summa total, solut. de novis edificationibus, 

 ei raparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per cimput/' 



' Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii. lib. vs. viiu/. Repara- 

 cionibus ecclesie Prioratus, cancellor. et capellar. ecclesiarurn et capellarqm de Selborne, 

 et Estworhlam. " &c., &c. 



