ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 257 



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 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 occu- 

 pation 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.f Butt-wood close; 

 here the servants of the priory and the village-swains exercised them- 

 selves with their long bows, and shot at a mark against a butt, or 

 bank.J Cundyth [conduit] wood : the engrosser of the lease not under- 

 standing 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 

 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 XVL This circumstance I just take notice of, as an instance 

 that monasteries had trades and occupations carried on within 

 themselves. || 



Registr. B., p. 112. Here we find a lease of the parsonage of Selborne 



* 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, Bood, 

 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 Lyge, which was the name of the original site of the Priory, <fec. 



f 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. 



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



N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ix.9. mid. 

 Beparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. xis.. Aque conduct, ibidem, 

 xxiiid" 



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



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