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Butt-wood clofe ; here the fervants of the Priory and the village- 
fwains exercifed themfelves with their long bows, and fhot at a 
mark againft a butt, or bank''. — Cundyth [conduit] wood: the 
engrofler of the leafe not underftanding this name has made a 
ftrange barbarous word of it. Conduk-wood was and is a fteep, 
rough cow-paflure, lying above the Priory, at about a quarter of 
a mile to the fouth-wefl. In the fide of this field there is a fpring of 
water that never fails ; at the head of which a ciftern was built 
which communicated with leaden pipes that conveyed water to the 
monaftery. When this refervoir was firft conftru6ted does not ap- 
pear, we only know that it underwent a repair in the epifcopate of 
bifhop Wainjieet, about the year 1462 Whether thefe pipes only 
conveyed the water to the Priory for common and culinary pur- 
pofes, or contributed to any matters of ornament and elegance, we 
fhall not pretend to fay ; nor when artifts and mechanics firft un- 
derftood any thing of hydraulics, and that water confined in tubes 
would rife to it's original level. There is a perfon now living 
who had been employed formerly in digging for thefe pipes, and 
once difcovered feveral yards, which they fold for old lead. 
There was alfo a plot of ground called Tan-houfe garden : and 
T" annarta fua,'* a tan-yard of their ozvn, has been mentioned in 
Letter XVI. This circumftance I jufttake notice of, as an inftance 
that monafteries had trades and occupations carried on within them- 
felves ^ 
d There is alfo a Butt-clofe}nA at the back of the village. 
« N. 381. " Claufure terre abbatie ecclefie parochial! it Sehbume. Ixs. Vmd: 
« Reparaclonibus domorum predi(5li prioratus iiii lib. xi s. Aque cendu5l. ibidem. 
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f There is ftiU a wood near the Priory called 7* %nnefs woad, 
Regiflr. 
