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contributed to any matters of ornament and elegance, we shall 

 not pretend to say ; nor when artists and mechanics first understood 

 any thing of hydraulics, and that water confined in tubes would 

 rise to it's 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 earned on 

 within themselves. 1 



Registr. B. pag. 112. Here we find a lease of the parsonage 

 of Selbome to Thomas Sylvester and Miles Arnold, husbandmen 

 of the tythes of all manner of come 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. 

 Wfiaddon was a chapel of ease to the mother church of Selbome, 

 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 Jield : 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 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 1 463, during the Jirst priorship of Berne, in con- 

 sequence of a sequestration issued forth by that visitor against the 

 Priory on account of notorious and shameful dilapidations. 3 



The Selbome rivulet becomes of some breadth at Oakhanger, 



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



a 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 edifica- 

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



"Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii. lib. vx v'md. 

 " Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, cancellor. et capellar. ecclesiarum et capel- 

 " larum de Selborne, et Estworhlam."&c. &c. 



