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thirteenth-century monastery was complete, and " Market 

 Mede." Even this does not exhaust the list of separate 

 gardens, but the others probably lay further away. The 

 cellarer had charge of a large garden, which may have been 

 the " Convent Garden," which is so familiar as " Covent 

 Garden " that the connection between the site of the 

 market and the Abbey has been lost sight of. One 

 of the large gardens which . was generally let was 

 " Maudit's Garden." In the records it is spoken of as 

 " Maudit's" or " Caleys." The name Maudit was given 

 to it because Thomas Maudit, Earl of Warwick, in the 

 thirteenth century effected an exchange of lands with 

 the Abbey, of which the garden formed a part. The 

 other name, "Caleys," was "Calais," named from the 

 wool staplers who came from that town and resided 

 near there, just as " Petty France " (where Milton lived) 

 was called so from the French merchants. An Act of 

 interchange of land between Henry VIII. and the Abbey, 

 in the twenty-third year of his reign, mentions " a 

 certain great messuage or tenement commonly called 

 Pety Caleys, and all messuages, houses, barns, stables, 

 dove-houses, orchards, gardens, pools, fisheries, waters, 

 ditches, lands, meadows, and pastures." Part of this was 

 " Maudit's " garden, which was sometimes in the hands 

 of the convent, but more frequently let out. Among 

 the muniments in 1350, "a toft called Maudit's garden, 

 and a croft called Maudit's croft," are referred to. There 

 seems to have been an enclosure within this " toft " which 

 was let out separately, and in the twentieth year of 

 Edward IV., Matilda, the widow of Richard Willy, who 

 had held it, gave up this enclosure or " conyn garth." 

 This was probably a " coney garth " or rabbit enclosure, 

 like the one at Lincoln's Inn, which was kept up for 



