364 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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 Magd. 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, probably towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. 

 Sharp's rent was vi u . 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 fields, many of which continue the same 

 to this day.* 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; 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. 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.*- 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 i462- Whether these pipes 



* 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 Liege, or la Lyg2, which was the name of the original 

 sita of the Priory, &c. 



t 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 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 als-> a Butt-close just at the back of the village. 



_M. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochial! de Seleburne, ixs. iiutt. Repara- 

 cionibus Uomorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. xis. Aque c .nduct. ibidem, xxiii.'z', " 



