3 o 4 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



buted to any matters oi ornament and elegance, we shall 

 not pretend to say ; nor when artists and mechanics first 

 understood anything of hydraulics, and that water con- 

 fined 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 carried on within themselves. 1 



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 : 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 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 



1 There is still a wood near the Priory, called Tanners-wood. [G. W.] 



2 There is a manor-farm, at present the property of Lord Staivcll ; and be- 

 longed probably in ancient times to Jo. de Venur or Venuz^ one of the first 

 benefactors to the Priory. [G. W.] 



