[54.1] The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, by Sir Robert Atkyns, knight, 2nd edition, London, 1768 (the original edition bears date 1712), 202; A New History of Gloucestershire, Cirencester: printed by Samuel Rudder (1779), 402. I quote Rudder. Atkyns, who neither describes the ancient nor any other state of Gloucestershire, omits the detail of the milk.
[55.1] Readers who are unacquainted with this interesting church will pardon my mentioning that, among other curious relics of the past, it preserves the arrangement of seats around the Communion Table in the chancel, which was introduced after the Reformation, but which the reaction under Laud and at the Restoration in most cases destroyed. The Rev. George Butterworth, who was incumbent until three or four years ago, and who has written an excellent little book upon Deerhurst, kept with reverent care in its ancient situation the carved oaken Communion Table. But his successor has removed it as lumber to the north aisle, and replaced it by a brand-new deal altar and super-altar, with all the gewgaws of the present ecclesiastical fashion, to the disgust of his parishioners and of every one who values historical remains. It will hardly be believed that this gentleman bears the name and claims the blood of the antiquary Lysons. Is it not time that the nation took over every church with any pretensions to the character of an historical monument, and forbade under heavy penalties the injuries lately, and still, wrought all over England by fussy parsons and over-zealous architects? Or are we to wait until every genuine record of the past has been effaced?
[56.1] Ante, [p. 16], note; i. Henderson, 298, 292, 296.
[56.2] i. Cosquin, 75, citing ii. Orient und Occident, 753.
[57.1] Plowden, 84. The story of Menelek is interesting but irrelevant here. The name of the king’s daughter in the Bosnian ballad cited above ([p. 41]) is a curious coincidence, if it be nothing more.
[58.1] Mage, 672. A similar story is told in Senegambia. Bérenger-Féraud, Sénég., 185.
[59.1] Leg. Aur., xciii. Such tales are told of several female saints. M. Maury mentions Saint Martha, Saint Veneranda and Saint Radegund. Saint Veneranda or Venera (Venus?) is a saint held in high honour in Sicily and Southern Italy. Her legend is given by Wirth, 24.
[60.1] ii. Grässe, 29, citing Müller, Siegburg und der Siegkreis.
[62.1] Dennys, 110, quoting translation by W. F. Mayers in i. N. and Q. on China and Japan, 148.
[63.1] i. Leg. Panjâb, 17; Steel, 258. Compare the märchen related, ante, [p. 30]. The legend seems to be localised at Poo in the Sutlej valley. Mrs. Murray-Aynsley, in iii. Rev. Trad. Pop., 431.