362 ANTIQUITIES 



the coppices, wood, and hedges. " Dat. 5 to . die Julii. an . 



Hen. VHP. 36." [viz. 1546.] 



Here we see the Priory in a new light, 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 Nidi. Langrish, who, from the preamble, 

 appears then to have been fellow of that society : but, being 

 now superannuated for business, 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," &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 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, manv of which 

 continue the same to this day. b Of some of them I shall take 

 notice, where any thing singular occurs. 



And here first we meet with Paradyss [Paradise] mede. 

 Every convent had its Paradise; which probably was an en- 

 closed orchard, pleasantly laid out, and planted with fruit- 



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

 farms, fields, woods, &c. which appear on 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 acknow- 

 ledged that other places have entirely lost their. original titles, as le Buri 

 and Trucstede in this village j and la Liega, or la Lyge, which was the 

 name of the original site of the Priory, &c. 



