From Warminster And District Archive magazine, No.2, Spring 1989:
She Lived In A Tree At Bishopstrow
An unusual obituary notice with a local connection features in The Annual Register for the year 1777. It reads:
“At Bishopstrow, her native place, near Warminster in Wilts, the celebrated Juliana Papjoy, in the 67th year of her age. In her youth she had been the mistress of the famous Nash of Bath, and after her separation from him, she took to a very uncommon way of life. Her principal residence she took up in a large hollow tree, now standing within a mile of Warminster, on a lock of straw, resolving never more to lie in a bed; and she was as good as her word; for she made that tree her habitation for between thirty and forty years, unless when she made her short peregrinations to Bath, Bristol, and the gentlemen’s houses adjacent; and she then lay in some barn or outhouse.”