ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
397 
— with the offerings at the chapel of Whaddon belonging to the 
said parsonage. Dat. 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 Monas- 
tica, 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 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 Hoch- 
angre tenet Hochangre in com. Southampton, per Serjantiam,J 
inveniendi unum valectum in exercitu Domini regis [scil. Hen- 
rici HP".] per 40 dies ; et ad faciendum pontem de Hochangre : 
et valet per ann. C. s.'^ 
Blounf s Ancient Tenures, p. 84. 
* 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 edificationibus, et 
reparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per comput.'^ 
" Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii lib. v j. viii d. — Reparacionibus 
ecclesie Prioratus, cancellor. et capellar. ecclesiarum et capellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam," 
— &c. &c. 
t Sargeutia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. , - , 
