OF SELBORNE 341 



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 tUed 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 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. 



or no variation : — as Norton, Southington, Durton, Achangre, Blackmore, 

 Bradshot, Rood, Plestor, etc. etc. At the same time it should be acknow- 

 ledged 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, etc. 



1 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. 



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



* N. 381. "Clausure terre abbatie ecclesle parochiali de Seleburne, 

 ixj. iiii^. Reparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. tis. 

 Aque conduct, ibidem, xxuid." 



