[2051] The authority for this statement is an isolated memorandum in a MS. volume (No. 980) by Thomas Gybbons, preserved in the Harleian collection in the British Museum.

[2052] Archæologia, iii. (1786) 157.

[2053] Ibid. xxv. (1834) 505.

[2054] Holinshed, Chronicles, vol. i. book 2. cap. 6.

[2055] 1 James I. (anno 1603) cap. 18.

[2056] A substance with which we are not acquainted.

[2057] Thèse, Montpellier, 1867.

[2058] Agricultural Returns of Great Britain, &c., 1873, presented to Parliament, 48. 49. 70. 71.

[2059] Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom for 1872. 49. 93.

[2060] Manuel des Plantes usuelles et indigènes, 1819. ii. 503.