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ANTIQUITIES OP SELBORNE. 
to Thomas Sylvester and Miles Arnold, husbandmen — of the tytlies 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*\ Hen. S'\ [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 w^et 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 also, 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,J 
inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Henrici IIP".] 
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. vs. viiid— 
Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, cancellor. et capellar. ecclesiamm et capellarum 
de Selborne, et Estworhlam." — &c. <fec. 
t 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. '* . 
