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and late in the occupation of New]yn. In this abstract also 

 are to be seen the names of all the fields, many of which con- 

 tinue the same to this day. 1 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 ; whicli probably was an en- 

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

 Tylehouse Grove, so distinguished from having a tiled house 

 near it. 2 Butt-wood Close; here the servants of the Priory 

 and the village swains exercised themselves witli their long 

 bows, and shot at a mark against a butt, or bank. 3 Cundytli 

 [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 

 witli 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. 4 Whether these pipes only 

 conveyed the water to the Priory for common and culinary pur- 



1 It 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 Liega, or La Lyge, which was the name of the original 

 site of the Priory, &c. 



2 Men at first heaped sods, or fern, or heath, on their roofs to keep off the 

 inclemencies of the weather : and then by degrees laid straw or haum. The first 

 refinements on roofing were shingles, which are very ancient. Tiles are a 

 very late and imperfect covering, and were not much in use till the begin- 

 ning of the sixteenth century. The first tiled house at Nottingham was 

 in 1503. 



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



* N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochial! de Seleburne, ixs. 

 iiiid. Eeparacionibus domoruin predicti prioratus iiii. lib xis. Aque conduct. 

 ibidem, xxiiid. 



