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granted him for thirty years, if he ftaould live fo long. It is faid 
of him — " cum jam fit provedlioris etatis quam ut," 8cc. 
Laurence Stubb, prefident of Magd. Coll. leafed out the Priory lands 
to Jobn Sharp, hulbandman, for the term of twenty years, as early 
as the feventeenth year of Hemy VIII. — viz. 1526 : and it appears 
th^t Henry Newlyn had been in polfeffion of a leafe before, probably 
towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. Sharp's rent was vi''., 
per ann. — ^Regift. B. p. 43. 
By an abftrad from a leafe lying before me, it appears that 
Sharp found a houfe, two barns, a liable, and a ^?«/-houfe, [^dove- 
houfe] built, and Handing on the fouth fide of the old Priory, 
and late in the occupation of Newlyn. In this abftrad alfo are to 
be feen the names of all the fields, many of which continue the 
fame to this day '^. Of fomc of them I fliall take notice, where 
any thing fmgular occurs. 
And here firft we meet with Paradyfs [Paradife] mede. Every 
convent had it's Faradife ; which probably was an enclofed or- 
chard, pleafantly laid out, and planted with fruit-trees. — Tyle- 
houfe grove, fo diftinguifhed from having a tiled houfe near it'', 
•> It may not be amifs to mention here that various names of tithings, farms, fields, 
fwoodsyScc. which appear in the ancient deeds, and evidences of feveral centuries (land- 
ing, are ftill preferved in common ufe with little or no variation : — as Norton, Southington, 
Durton, Achangre, Blacktiiore, Brculjhot, Rood, Plefior, &c. &c. At the fame time it lliould 
fee acknowledged that other places have entirely loft their original titles, as le Burl and 
Irucfiede in this village ; and la Liega, or la Ljge, which was the name of the original 
fite of the Priory, &c. 
' Men at firft heaped fods, or fern, or heath, on their roofs to keep off the inclemer^cies 
of weather ; and then by degrees laid ftraw or haum. The firft refinements on roofing 
Tvere fliingles, which are very ancient. Tiles are a very late and imperfeft covering, and 
were not much in ufe till the beginning of the fixteenth century. The firft tikd houfe 
at Nottingham was in 1503, 
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