This legend lived long in the popular notion that a spirit walked that scene. An indefatigable antiquary has preserved some historical notice, which tends to an explanation of the origin of the name.

“In a quaint book by Bishop Hall, in 8vo. printed by Edward Blount and William Barrett, called the Discovery of a New World or a Description of the South Indies, with this running title, The description of Tenter-Belly, and subscribed the Cambridge Pilgrim, at p. 44, is this :—

‘A Giant called All Paunch, who was of an incredible Height of Body, not like him whose Picture the Schollers of Cambridge goe to see at Hogmagog Hills, but rather like him that ought the two Aple Teeth which were digged out of a well in Cambridge, that were little lesse than a man's head.’

“When I was a boy, about 1724, I remember my Father or Mother, as it happened I went with one or other of them to Cambridge, the road from Baberham there lying through the Camp, (now blocked up by the house and gardens inclosed in it of my Lord Godolphin) always used to stop and show me and my Brother and Sisters the figure of the giant carved on the Turf; concerning whom there were then many traditions, now worn away. What became of the two said Teeth I never heard.”