[If our correspondent will refer to the title-page of the Bishop's
celebrated work, _The English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries_,
as well as to his correspondence with Thoresby, the Leeds antiquary, he
will find his name spelt Nicolson, without the letter _h_. This
deserves to be noted, as there was another Dr. William Nicholson,
consecrated Bishop of Gloucester, A.D. 1660.]
_Six Abeiles._--In Mrs. Barrett Browning's beautiful poem, _Rhyme of the
Duchess May_, the following lines occur:
"Six _abeiles_ i' the kirkyard grow,
On the northside in a row."
Will you or some of your readers kindly inform me what _abeiles_ are. From
the context, they would seem to be some kind of tree, but what tree I
cannot discover.