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ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
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. Tyle- 
house 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.f 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 ciste];n 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 epis- 
copate of bishop Wainfleet, about the year 1462.1 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 XVI. This circumstance I just take notice of, as an 
instance that monasteries had trades and occupations carried on 
within themselves.§ 
Registr. B. pag. 112. Here we find a lease of the parsonage 
of Selborne to Thomas Sylvester and Miles Arnold, husbandmen 
— of the tythes of all manner of corne pertaining to the parsonage 
irnore, 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 
Liega, or la Lyge, which was the name of the original site of the Priory, &c. 
* 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 very late and imperfect covering, and were not 
much in use till the beginning of the sixteenth century. The first tiled bouse at Nottingham 
was in 1503. 
t There is also a Butt-close just at the back of the village. 
t N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ixs. iiiirf. Reparacionibus 
domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib- xi s. Aque conduct, ibidem, xxiii d-" 
§ There is still a wood near the Priory called Tanner's wood. 
