asleep. The other, seeing a bee settle on a neighbouring wall and go
into a little hole, put the end of his staff in the hole, and so imprisoned
the bee. Wishing to pursue his journey, he endeavoured to awaken his
companion, but was unable to do so, till, resuming his stick, the bee flew
to the sleeping man and went into his ear. His companion then awoke him,
remarking how soundly he had been sleeping, and asked what had he been
dreaming of? "Oh!" said he, "I dreamt that you shut me up in a dark cave
and I could not awake till you let me out." The person who told me the
story firmly believed that the man's soul was in the bee.

F. S.

_Lady's Trees._--In some parts of Cornwall, small branches of sea-weed,
dried and fastened in turned wooden stands, are set up as ornaments on the
chimney-piece, &c. The poor people suppose that they preserve the house
from fire, and they are known by the name of "_Lady's trees_," in honour, I
presume, of the Virgin Mary.

H. G. T.

Launceston.

_Norfolk Folk Lore Rhymes._--I have met with the rhymes following, which
may not be uninteresting to some of your readers as _Folk Lore, Norfolk_:--

"Rising was, Lynn is, and Downham shall be,
The greatest seaport of the three."

Another version of the same runs thus:

"Risin was a seaport town,
And Lynn it was a wash,
But now Lynn is a seaport Lynn,
And Rising fares the worst."

Also another satirical tradition in rhyme:

"That nasty stinking sink-hole of sin,
Which the map of the county denominates Lynn."

Also:

"Caistor was a city ere Norwich was none,
And Norwich was built of Caistor stone."

JOHN NURSE CHADWICK.

King's Lynn.

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Minor Notes.

_Note for the Topographers of Ancient London, and for the Monasticon._--

"Walter Grendon, Prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem,
acknowledges to have received, by the hands of Robert Upgate and Ralph
Halstede,--from Margaret, widow of S^r John Philippott K^t,--Thomas
Goodlak and their partners,--4 pounds in full payment of arrears of all
the rent due to us from their tenement called Jesoreshall in the city
of London.

"Dated 1. December, 1406."

From the original in the Surrenden collection.

L. B. L.

_Gray and Burns._--

"Authors, before they write, should read."

So thought Matthew Prior; and if that rule had been attended to, neither
would Lord Byron have de