418 PROFESSOR HUGHES 



In Breadth ffeet. The Mulberry Tree in it was planted about y e year 

 1690 by M r Allen then ffellow. 



There was another Mulberry Tree planted at the West end of the same 

 Garden about Lady Day 1726 By D 1 Tenison ffellow. 



On the inside of this Garden Wall wch is next Caius College are these 

 letters T. G. held together by a sash workid on a stone. I know not who 

 they stand for. 



It appears from Deeds that were made in Stephen Gardiner's time, 

 y l y ground between our College Building and Gerrard (or Garret) Hostle 

 IJane was granted to our College by y e Mayor and Corporation of Cambridge 

 and by S* Michaels (Mychell) House by several pieces and at several times 

 in exchange for some pieces of Land from Trinity Hall. What is now 

 called y e ffellowes ffruit Garden on y e North side of y e College was granted 

 by Mychell House 16 Apr. 36 Hen. 8. for a Red Rose acknowledgm* (see 

 Arch. Coll. S* Edward's drawer). On a spare leaf at the end of the old 

 Vellum Book with green strings 1 (in which book I have transcribed the 

 College Statutes) are these following Memoranda entred (as I take it) in 

 Dr Harvey's 2 own Handwriting, viz. : 



Anno Dni 1545, y e ground on y e north side of y e buildyng of o r College 

 was taken y n and y e wall builded wch befor was a laystowe. 



Anno Dni 1569 y e old wall on y e northe side of o r back syde was taken 

 down, and y grownd wch was w* out o r wall taken yn unto y e water syde 

 all y e lengethe from y e stable w* y e retorn to y e prive and y e new wall sett 

 up and a new crosse wall sevarying y e stableyard also made y e same yere. 



The forementioned Date viz. 1569 appears still on y e outside of y e 

 Corner of y e Wall at y e Watergate next Garret Hostle Bridge, cut in 



stone thus 



1569 

 9 June 



and over y e Date a Crescent for y e Founder's Arms 3 . 



A laystall, or, as it seems to be written in Warren's book, a 

 laystowe, was a place where rubbish was deposited ; and in 

 Spenser's Faerie Queene (Book I. Canto 6) we read : 



"Scarce could he footing find in that fouleway 

 "For many corses, like a great lay-stall, 

 " Of murd'red men." 



The word is spelt loistal in Bacon and leystall in Ben 

 Jonson 4 . It is probable that when the piece of ground in 



1 This book is now bound in calf and lettered : " Old Vellum Book." 



2 Henry Harvey, LL.D., Master 15601584. See Cooper's Athena, i. 505. 



3 Warren, p. 18. 



4 See Richardson's Dictionary, s.v. LAY. 



