ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 369 



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 the lease 

 before, probably towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. 

 Sharp's rent was vi 11 . 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 I 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. Tyle- 

 house grove, so distinguished from having a tiled house near it.f 

 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.J 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 



* It may not be amiss to mention here that various names of tithings, farms, 

 fields, woods, etc., which appear in the ancient deeds, and evidences of several 

 centuries standing, are still preserved in common use with little or no varia- 

 tion : as Norton, Southington, Durton, Achangre, Blackmore, Bradshot, 

 Rood, Plestor, etc., etc. 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, etc. 



f 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. 



J There is also a Butt-close just at the back of the village. 



