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and late in tlie occupation of Newlyn. In this abstract also 
are to be seen tlie names of all the fields, many of which con- 
tinue the same to this day.i Of some of them I shall take 
notice where anything singular occurs. 
xind here first ^\e meet with Paradyss [Paradise] Mede. 
Every convent had its Paradise ; which probably w^as an en- 
closed orchard, pleasantly laid out, and planted with fruit trees. 
Tylehouse 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.-^ 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. Wheu 
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 pur- 
^ It may not be amiss to mentioi] here that various mimes 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 n 
variation :— as Norton, Southington, Durton, A changre, Blackmore, Bradshot, 
Kood, 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 oft' the 
inclemencies of the weather : and then by degrees laid straw or liaum. 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 begin- 
ning 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. "(Jlausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ix.s. 
iuid. Reparacionibus domorum predict! prioratus iiii. lib. xis. Aque conduct. 
ibidem. xxiii(/. 
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