[ 48.] Washington Irving, “The Sketch-Book” (Revised Edition, New York, 1860), 245.

[ 49.] Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. viii. 481.

[ 50.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 472.

[ 51.] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 100.

[ 52.] Burne and Jackson, 245.

[ 53.] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 226.

[ 54.] E. K. Chambers and F. Sidgwick, “Early English Lyrics” (London, 1907), 293; E. Rickert, “Ancient English Carols” (London, 1910), 262.[381]

[ 55.] Rickert, 262.

[ 56.] Burne and Jackson, 245 f., 397, 411.

[ 57.] Lloyd, 169.