546 
THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
poses, or contributed to any matters of ornament and elegance, 
we shall not jDretend 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 men- 
tioned in Letter XVI. This circumstance I just take notice of, 
as an instance that monasteries had trades and occupations 
carried on within themselves.^ 
Eegistr. B. pag. 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 j)ertaining to the parson- 
age — with the offerings at the chapel of Whaddon, belonging to 
the said parsonage. Uat. June 1. 27*^ Hen. 8^^ [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 cha23el 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 bap- 
tismal 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 tlie year 1463, during the first priorship 
of Berne, in consequence of a sequestration issued forth by that 
^ There is still a wood near the Priory, called Tanner's Wood. 
^ This is a manor-farm, at present the property of Lord Stawell ; and 
belonged probably in ancient times to Jo. de Vennr, or Venuz, one of the first 
benefactors to the Priory. 
