THE ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE 303 



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 anything singular 

 occurs. 



And here first we meet with Paradyss [Paradise] mede. 

 Every convent had it's Paradise ; which probably was an 

 enclosed orchard, pleasantly laid out, and planted with 

 fruit-trees. Tylehouse 2 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. 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 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 1462.* 

 Whether these pipes only conveyed the water to the 

 Priory for common and culinary purposes, or contri- 



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. 

 [G. W.] 



3 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. [G. W.] 



3 There is also a Butt-dose just at the back of the village. [G. W.] 



4 N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ixj. \\i\d. 

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

 xxiuV." [G. W.] 



