340 THE ANTIQUITIES 



coquina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, 

 cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard — Preterea 

 26s. 8d. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad servi- 

 endum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus." — 

 His wood to be granted him by the president on the 

 progress. — He was not to absent himself beyond a certain 

 time ; and was to superintend the coppices, wood, and 



hedges. "Dat. 5'° die Juhi. an°. Hen. VIII^. 36°." 



[viz. 1546]. 



Here we see the Priory in a new Hght, reduced as it 

 were to the state of a chantry, without prior and without 

 canons, and attended only by a priest, who was also a sort 

 of bailiff or woodman, his assistant clerk, and his female 

 cook. Owen Oglethorpe, president, and Magd. Coll. in 

 the fourth year of Edward VI., viz. 1551, granted an 

 annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. Langrish, 

 who, from the preamble, appears then to have been fellow 

 of that society : but, being now superannuated for busi- 

 ness, this pension is granted him for thirty years, if he 

 should live so long. It is said of him — " cum jam sit 

 provectioris etatis quam ut," etc. 



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 vi''. 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 any thing 

 singular occurs. 



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

 farms, fields, woods, etc. which appear on the ancient deeds, and evidences 

 of several centuries standing, are still preserved in common use with little 



