396 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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. Tyle- 

 house grove, so distinguished from having a tiled house near it.* 

 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.f 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 epis- 

 copate of bishop Wainfleet, about the year 1462.J 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. 



There was also a plot of ground called Tan-house garden : and 

 "Tannaria sua," a tan-yard of their own, has been mentioned 

 in Letter XVI. This circumstance I just take notice of, as an 

 instance that monasteries had trades and occupations carried on 

 within themselves. 



Registr. B. pag. 112. Here we find a lease of the parsonage 

 of Selborne to Thomas Sylvester and Miles Arnold, husbandmen 

 of the tythes of all manner of corne pertaining to the parsonage 



more, Bradshot, Hood, 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, Sec. 



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

 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. 



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



t N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ix. iiiirf. Reparacionibus 

 domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. xi s . Aque conduct, ibidem, xxiii d-" 



There is still a wood near the Priory called Tanner's wood. 



