308 THE ANTIQUITIES 



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 !i . 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 dtif-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. 1 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 probably was an enclosed orchard, 

 pleasantly laid out, and planted with fruit-trees. Tylehouse grove, 

 so distinguished from having a tiled house near it. 2 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. 3 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 com- 

 municated 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 Wain- 

 fleet, about the year 1462. 4 Whether these pipes only conveyed 

 the water to the Priory for common and culinary purposes, or 



1 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 Liega, or la. 

 Lyge, which was the name of the original site of the Priory, &c. 



2 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. 



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



4 N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochial! de Seleburne, iw. iiiuf. 

 " Reparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib, xu, Ague conduct, ibidem, 

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