Beggarly Beeston, and lousy Chilwell;
Waterside Wilford, hey little Lenton!
Ho fine Nottingham! Colwick and Snenton."
The villages whose names occur are all within a few miles of Nottingham.
The following rhyme I have also heard:
"Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred,
Strong i' th' arm and weak i' the head."
R. C. C.
Oxon.
Saint Wilfrid's Needle (Vol. v., p. 510.), where, according to Burton, "they used to try maids whether they were honest," is not, as B. B. supposes, a stone, but a narrow passage in the crypt beneath the central tower of Ripon Minster. This crypt is of Saxon workmanship, and is probably either a part of the original church built by Saint Wilfrid, or "the new work," which, according to Leland—