ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
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Henry Newlyn had been in possession of a lease before, probably 
towards the end of the reign of Henry YH. Sharp's rent was vi^'. per 
ann. — Eegist. 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.+ 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 XYI. This circumstance I just take notice of, as an instance 
that monasteries had trades and occupations carried on within 
themselves. Il 
Eegistr. 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, Rood, 
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, &c. 
t 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. 
t There is also a Butt-close just at the back of the village. 
§ N. 381. "Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ix.5. iiiitZ, 
Beparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. xis.. Aque conduct, ibidem, 
xxiiid." 
11 There is still a wood near the Priory, called Tanner's Wood. 
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