Footnote 498: [(return)]
John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (London, 1881), p. 26.
Footnote 499: [(return)]
J. Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1882-1883), i. 300 sq., 318, compare pp. 305, 306, 308 sq.; W. Mannhardt, Der Baumkultus, p. 512. Compare W. Hutchinson, View of Northumberland, vol. ii. (Newcastle, 1778), Appendix, p. (15), under the head "Midsummer":—"It is usual to raise fires on the tops of high hills and in the villages, and sport and danse around them; this is of very remote antiquity, and the first cause lost in the distance of time."
Footnote 500: [(return)]
Dr. Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle, quoted by William Borlase, Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall (London, 1769), p. 135 note.
Footnote 501: [(return)]
County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C. Balfour (London, 1904), p. 76, quoting E. Mackenzie, An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland, Second Edition (Newcastle, 1825), i. 217.
Footnote 502: [(return)]
County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C. Balfour, p. 75.
Footnote 503: [(return)]
County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C. Balfour, p. 75.
Footnote 504: [(return)]
The Denham Tracts, edited by J. Hardy (London, 1892-1895), ii. 342 sq., quoting Archælogia Aeliana, N.S., vii. 73, and the Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, vi. 242 sq.; County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C. Balfour (London, 1904), pp. 75 sq. Whalton is a village of Northumberland, not far from Morpeth.
Footnote 505: [(return)]
County Folk-lore, vol. vi. East Riding of Yorkshire, collected and edited by Mrs. Gutch (London, 1912), p. 102.
Footnote 506: [(return)]
John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (London, 1881), p. 96, compare id., p. 26.
Footnote 507: [(return)]
J. Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1882-1883), i. 311.