258 ANTIQUITIES OP 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. Bat. 

 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 : * 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-ilfeo, 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 

 Hochangre tenet Hochangre in com. Southampton, per Serjantiam,t 

 inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Henrici IIP 11 .] 

 per 40 dies ; et ad faciendum pontem de Hochangre : et valet 

 per ann. C. s." " Blount's Ancient Tenures," p. 84. 



A dove-house was a constant appendant to a manorial dwelling : of 

 this convenience more will be said hereafter: 



A corn-mill was also esteemed a necessary appendage of every manor ; 

 and therefore was to be expected of course at the priory of Selborne. 



The prior had secta molendini, or ad molendinum ; a power of 

 compelling his vassals to bring their corn to be ground at his mill, 

 according to an old custom. He had also, according to Bishop 

 Tanner, secta molendini de strete ; but the purport of strete, we must 



* 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. 



t See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. "Summa total, solut. de novis edifica- 

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



"Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii. lib. v*. viiicZ. 

 Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, canceller, et capellar. ecclesiarum et capellarum 

 de Selborne, et Estworhlam." <fec. <fec. 



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



"Servitium, quo feudatorii grana sua ad Domini molendinum, ibi molenda 

 perferre, ex consuetidine, astringuntur." 



