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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. 1 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. 2 Cundyth [conduit] Wood : the engrosser of the 

 lease not understanding this name has made a strange bar- 

 barous 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. :i Whether these pipes only conveyed 



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. 



1 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 in 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. G. W. 



Mr. Bennett has suggested that perhaps the tile house was the 

 establishment at which the tiles used in the convent flooring were made. 

 The number of plain tiles which were used there appears to have been 

 considerable : in the preparation of the ornamented ones much time 

 must have been occupied. The manufacture of them on the spot would 

 have been quite in accordance with the arrangements made by such 

 establishments generally, and certainly by the Priory of Selborne, for 

 carrying on trades within themselves, and thus rendering themselves 

 self-dependent only. ED. 



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



2 N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburnc, 

 ixs. iiiic?. Reparacionibus doniorum predict! prioratus iiii lib. xi s. 

 Ague conduct, ibidem, xxiiid. G. W. 



