396 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 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 epis- 
copate of bishop Wainfleet, about the year 1462. J 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 
more, Bradshot, Rood, Plestor, &c. &c. At the same time it should be acknowledged that othet 
places have entirely lost their original titles, as le Buri and Trucstede in this village; and li 
Liega, or la Lyge, which was the name of the original site of the Priory, Sic. 
* 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 refineirents on roofing wert 
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 Nottinghan 
was in 1503. 
t There is also a Butt-close just at the back of the village. 
t N. 3S1. *' Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Selcburne, ix/. iiiirf, Reparacionibu» 
domorum predicti prioratus iiii. Ub. xi 5. Aque conduct, ibidem, xxiii d-" 
§ There is still a wood near the Priory called Tanner's wood. 
