12. Should a corpse be ever carried through any path, &c., that path cannot
be done away with. For cases, see Wales, Somerset, Bampton, Devon.
13. On the highest mound of the hill above Weston-super-Mare, is a heap of
stones, to which every fisherman in his daily walk to Sand Bay, Kewstoke,
contributes one towards his day's good fishing.
14. Smothering hydrophobic patients is still spoken of in Somerset as so
practised.
15. Origin of the saying "I'll send you to Jamaica." Did it not take its
source from the unjudge-like sentence of Judge Jeffries to those who
suffered without sufficient evidence, for their friendly disposition
towards the Duke of Monmouth: "To be sent ---- ---- to the plantations of
Jamaica?" Many innocent persons were so cruelly treated in Somerset.
16. The nurse who brings the infant to be baptized bestows upon the first
person she meets on her way to the church whatever bread and cheese she can
offer, _i. e._, according to the condition of the parents.