Notes — Dibdin, Darlcy Dale 205 



Castle, and under its shade tradition says Queen 

 Mary gave her consent to marry Darnley, to per- 

 petuate the memory of which she had the figure of 

 a yew-tree stamped upon her coins.' ^ 



Dibdin, Hants. — In the year 1833 Sir T. Dick 

 Lauder says there was a fine tree in the church- 

 yard, which measured 30 feet in girth above the 

 roots. Miss Carlyon informs me (Jan. 1895) ^^^^ 

 when her father, the Rev. E, Carlyon, was appointed 

 in 1866 it had been long dead ; the trunk had been 

 taken up and placed in the rectory garden. ' There 

 is a legend in the village that Lady Lisle was 

 taken prisoner while hiding in this tree, which was 

 always afterwards known as Lady Lisle's Yew. 

 On moonlioht nio^hts she was said to drive four 

 headless horses round it.' Miss Gray informs me 

 that the tree was split down the centre and 

 appeared almost as two trees. One half was 

 blown down in 1836, and the other before her 

 father relinquished the living. This tree is men- 

 tioned in Gilpin's Forest Scenery, a.d. 1694. 



The Darley Dale Yezv. — A female tree stands 

 in the churchyard of Darley in the Dale, Derby- 

 shire. Its circumference in 1836 was, according 

 to Mr. John Eddowes Bowman," 'at the base, 27 

 feet; at 2 feet 4 inches above the ground, 27 feet 

 7 inches ; at 4 feet, 31 "8 inches; and at 6 feet, 

 307 inches. At 4 feet high there are excrescences 



' Loudon, op. cit., vol. iv. 2097. " Ma};. Nat. Hist., New Series, 1836. 



