OF SELBORNE. 
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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.^ 
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 off'erings at the chapel 
of Whaddon belonging to the said parsonage. Dat. June 1. 
27*\ Hen. [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 
^ There is still a wood near the Priory, called Tanner's Wood. — 
G. W. 
^ This is a manor-farm, at present the property of Lord Stawell ; 
and belonged probably in ancient times to Jo. de Venar, or Venuz, one 
of the first benefactors to the Priory. — G. W. 
