364 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE., 
him for thirty years, if he should live solong. It is said of him— 
“cum jam sit provectioris etatis quam ut,” &c. 
Laurence Stubb, president of Magd. Coll., leased out the priory 
lands to John Sharp, husbandman, for the term of twenty years, 
as early as the seventeenth year of Henry VIII., viz., 1526: and it 
appears that Henry Newlyn had been in possession of a lease 
before, probably towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. 
Sharp’s rent was vil, per ann.—Regist. B. p. 43. 
By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears that 
Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf-house [dove- 
house] built, and standing on the south side of the old priory, and 
late in the occupation of Newlyn. In this abstract also are to be 
seen the names of all the fields, many of which continue the same 
to this day.* Of some of them IJ shall take notice, where anything 
singular occurs. 
And here first we meet with Paradyss [Paradise] mede. Every 
convent had its paradise; which probably was an enclosed orchard, 
pleasantly laid out, and planted with fruit-trees. Tylehouse grove, 
so distinguished from having a tiled house near it. Butt-wood 
close; here the servants of the priory and the village-swains 
exercised themselves with their long bows, and shot at a mark 
against a butt, or bank.t—Cundyth [conduit] wood: the engrosser 
of the lease not understanding this name, has made a strange 
barbarous word of it. Conduit wood was and is a steep, rough 
cow-pasture, lying above the priory, at about a quarter of a mile 
to the south-west. In the side of this field there is a spring 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 
*Tt may not be amiss to mention here that various names of tithings, farms, fields. woods, 
&c., which appear in the ancient deeds, and evidences of several centuries standing, are 
still preserved in common use with little or no variation:—as Norton, Southington, 
Durton, Achangre, Blackmore, Bradshot, Rood, Plestor, &c., &c. At the same time it 
should be acknowledged that other places have entirely lost their original titles. as le Buri 
and Trucstede in this village ; and la Liege, or la Lyge, which was the name of the original 
site of the Priory, &c. 
+ Men at first heaped sods, or fern, or heath, on their roofs to keep off the inclemencies 
of weather; and then by degrees laid straw or haum. The first refinements on roofing 
were shingles which are very ancient. Tiles are a late and imperfect covering, and were 
not much in use till the beginning of the sixteenth century. The first tiled house at 
Nottingham was in 1503. 
t There is also a Butt-close just at the back of the village. 
§ N. 381. ‘* Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ixs. iiiid. Repara- 
cionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. xis. Aque cinduct. ibidem, xxiiid,’* 
