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Nine-Tree Hill, at the north end of Stokes' Croft, was so called from nine elms, that stood on the knoll.

Hard by, the ground, now Fremantle Square, was within memory called “Mother Pugsley's Field.” Pugsley, the possessor of it, was an officer in Prince Rupert's army. He met his death upon it by a shot from Montpelier.

His widow, a very beautiful lady, true to his memory, erected a hut over his grave here; and, when season permitted, came and watched over the ground so consecrate to his life and death. She lived to eighty years of age; and was buried, in accordance with her will, wrapped in her wedding sheets; two maidens strewing the way before her bier with sweet herbs, and a fiddler playing before her corpse.