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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. Tylehouse grove, so distinguished from having 

 a tiled house near it. 1 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. 2 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 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 14.62? Whether these 

 pipes only conveyed the water to the Priory for common 

 and culinary purposes, or contributed to any matters of 

 ornament and elegance, we shall not pretend to say ; nor 

 when artists and mechanics first understood any thing of 

 hydraulics, and that water confined in tubes would rise to 

 its original level. There is a person now living who had 

 been employed formerly in digging for these pipes, and 

 once discovered several yards, which they sold for old lead. 



or no variation : as Norton, Southington, Burton, Achangre, Blackmore, 

 Bradshot, Rood, Plestor, etc. etc. 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; and la Liega, or la Lyge, which was the 

 name of the original site of the Priory, etc. 



1 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 beginning of the sixteenth century. The first tiled house at 

 Nottingham was in 1503. 



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



8 N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, 

 ixj. imd. Reparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. Kb. xi/. 

 Aque conduct, ibidem, xxiii*/." 



