of water that never fails; at the head of which a cistern was built which communicated with leaden pipes that conveyed water to the monastery. When this reservoir was first constructed does not appear; we only know that it underwent a repair in the episcopate of Bishop Wainfleet, about the year 1462.* Whether these pipes only conveyed 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., p. 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 pertaining to the parsonage—with the offerings at the chapel of Whaddon belonging to the said parsonage. Dat. June 1. 27th . Hen. 8th . [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
* N. 381. "Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ixs. iiid. Reparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. xis. Aque conduct, ibidem, xxiiid/.
† 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 Venur, or Venuz, one of the first benefactors to the Priory.
