"Geoffery Van
With his wife Anne
And his maid Nan
Built this church."
But there was long since dug up in a garden here a large seal, with indisputable marks of antiquity, and this inscription:—"Sigillum Galfridi de Ann." It is therefore supposed, with some reason, that the founder's name was Ann.
A great number and variety of Roman coins have been dug up in this town, some of silver, others of copper, called by the common people, King Dorn's Pence; for they have a notion that one king Dorn was the founder of Dorchester.
HALBERT H.
FIRE AT YORK CATHEDRAL.
(For the Mirror.)