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ANTIQUITIES 
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/ 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 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."* 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. 
* 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 hanm. 
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 tlie tiles used in the convent flooring were made. 
The number of plain tiles v/nich v/ere 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. 
2 There is also a Butt-close just at the back of the village. — G. W. 
2 N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Selcburnc, 
ixs iiiic?. Reparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii lib. xi s. 
Ague eonducL ibidem, xxiiic?. — G. W. 
