OF SELBORNE. 503 



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. 1 



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

 sonage of Selborne to Thomas Sylvester and Miles Arnold, 

 husbandmen of the tythes of all manner of corne per- 

 taining 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 :* but there are 

 no remains or traces of the building itself, the very foun- 

 dations 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 



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

 G. W. 



2 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. G. W. 



