304 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
thirteenth-century monastery was complete, and “ Market 
Mede.” Even this does not exhaust the list of separate 
gardens, but the others probably lay further away. The 
cellarer had charge of a large garden, which may have been 
the “ Convent Garden,” which is so familiar as “ Covent 
Garden ” that the connection between the site of the 
market and the Abbey has been lost sight of. One 
of the large gardens which. was generally let was 
“ Maudit’s Garden.” In the records it is spoken of as 
“ Maudit’s” or “ Caleys.” The name Maudit was given 
to it because Thomas Maudit, Earl of Warwick, in the 
thirteenth century effected an exchange of lands with 
the Abbey, of which the garden formed a part. The 
other name, “ Caleys,” was “ Calais,” named from the 
wool staplers who came from that town and resided 
near there, just as “ Petty France ” (where Milton lived) 
was called so from the French merchants. An Act of 
interchange of land between Henry VIII. and the Abbey, 
in the twenty-third year of his reign, mentions “ a 
certain great messuage or tenement commonly called 
Pety Caleys, and all messuages, houses, barns, stables, 
dove-houses, orchards, gardens, pools, fisheries, waters, 
ditches, lands, meadows, and pastures.” Part of this was 
“ Maudit’s ” garden, which was sometimes in the hands 
of the convent, but more frequently let out. Among 
the muniments in 1350, “a toft called Maudit’s garden, 
and a croft called Maudit’s croft,” are referred to. There 
seems to have been an enclosure within this “ toft ” which 
was let out separately, and in the twentieth year of 
Edward IV., Matilda, the widow of Richard Willy, who 
had held it, gave up this enclosure or “ conyn garth.” 
This was probably a “ coney garth” or rabbit enclosure, 
like the one at Lincoln’s Inn, which was kept up for 
