AN TIQUITI H,S 



out canons, and attended only by a priest, who \s;i- 

 also a sort of bailiff or woodman, his assistant clerk, 

 and his female cook 2 . Owen Oglethorpe, president, and 

 Magdalen College, in the fourth year of Edward VI. 

 viz. 1551, granted an annuity of ten pounds 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 quam ut," &c. 



Laurence Stubb, president of MagJ. 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 possession of a lease before, pro- 

 bably towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. 

 Sharp's rent was vi 11 . per ann. 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 iields, many of which continue the same to 

 this day 3 . Of some of them I shall take notice, where 

 any thing singular occurs. 



And here first we meet with Paradyss [Paradise] 

 Mede. Every convent had its Paradise ; which proba- 

 bly was an enclosed orchard, pleasantly laid out, and 

 planted with fruit trees. Tylehouse Grove, so distin- 



8 Una coquina would rather signify a kitchen than a female cook. 

 E.T.B. 



3 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, Black- 

 more, 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, &e. 



