Footnote 658: [(return)]

Herrick, Hesperides, "Ceremonies for Christmasse":

"Come, bring with a noise,

My merrie merrie boyes,

The Christmas log to the firing;...

With the last yeeres brand

Light the neiv block"

And, again, in his verses, "Ceremonies for Candlemasse Day":

"Kindle the Christmas brand, and then

Till sunne-set let it burne;

Which quencht, then lay it up agen,

Till Christmas next returne.

Part must be kept, wherewith to teend

The Christmas log next yeare;

And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend

Can do no mischiefe there"

See The Works of Robert Herrick (Edinburgh, 1823), vol. ii. pp. 91, 124. From these latter verses it seems that the Yule log was replaced on the fire on Candlemas (the second of February).

Footnote 659: [(return)]

Miss C. S. Burne and Miss G. F. Jackson, Shropshire Folk-lore (London, 1883), p. 398 note 2. See also below, pp. [257], [258], as to the Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, and Welsh practice.

Footnote 660: [(return)]

Francis Grose, Provincial Glossary, Second Edition (London, 1811), pp. 141 sq.; T.F. Thiselton Dyer, British Popular Customs (London, 1876), p. 466.

Footnote 661: [(return)]

County Folk-lore, vol. iv. Northumberland, collected by M.C. Balfour and edited by Northcote W. Thomas (London, 1904), p. 79.

Footnote 662: [(return)]

County Folk-lore, vol. ii. North Riding of Yorkshire, York and the Ainsty, collected and edited by Mrs. Gutch (London, 1901), pp. 273, 274, 275 sq.

Footnote 663: [(return)]

County Folk-lore, vol. vi. East Riding of Yorkshire, collected and edited by Mrs. Gutch (London, 1912), pp. 23, 118, compare p. 114.

Footnote 664: [(return)]

John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (London, 1881), p. 5.

Footnote 665: [(return)]

County Folk-lore, vol. v. Lincolnshire, collected by Mrs. Gutch and Mabel Peacock (London, 1908), p. 219. Elsewhere in Lincolnshire the Yule-log seems to have been called the Yule-clog (op. cit. pp. 215, 216).

Footnote 666: [(return)]

Mrs. Samuel Chandler (Sarah Whateley), quoted in The Folk-lore Journal, i. (1883) pp. 351 sq.

Footnote 667: [(return)]

Miss C.S. Burne and Miss G.F. Jackson, Shropshire Folk-lore (London, 1883), pp. 397 sq. One of the informants of these writers says (op. cit. p. 399): "In 1845 I was at the Vessons farmhouse, near the Eastbridge Coppice (at the northern end of the Stiperstones). The floor was of flags, an unusual thing in this part. Observing a sort of roadway through the kitchen, and the flags much broken, I enquired what caused it, and was told it was from the horses' hoofs drawing in the 'Christmas Brund.'"