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Oglethorpe, president, and Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of 

 Edward VI. , viz. 1551, granted an annuity of ten pounds a 

 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 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 qua mut," 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 posses- 

 sion of the lease before, probably towards the end of the reign 

 of Henry VII. Sharp's rent was vi u . perann. 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. 2 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 en- 

 closed orchard, pleasantly laid out, and planted with fruit trees. 

 Tyle-house grove, so distinguished from having a tiled house 

 near it. 3 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. 4 Cundyth [con- 

 duit] 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 only 

 conveyed the water to the Priory for common and culinary 

 purposes, or contributed to any matters of ornament and ele- 



