[614] Randolph (1657).
[615] Johnson, W., Byways, p. 185.
[616] Hazlitt, W. Carew, Faiths and Folklore, i., 309.
[617] Quoted from Harrison, J., Ancient Art and Ritual, p. 188.
[618] Folklore, XXV., iv., p. 426.
[619] Larwood and Hotten, Hist. of Signboards, p. 504.
[620] Cf. Borlase, W., Cornwall, pp. 193, 201.
[621] One may connote this ceremony with the Bardic triad: “God is the measuring rod of all truth, all justice, and all goodness, therefore He is a yoke on all, and all are under it, and woe to him who shall violate it”.
[623] Quoted from Science of Language, Max Müller, p. 540.