[122] Hall's Chronicle.
[123] William of Worcester's Annales Rerum Anglicarum, pp. 460-61.
[124] Pictorial History of England, vol. ii. p. 81; also Hall's Chronicle.
[125] This is the title-page of an old 12mo chap-book, the date of publication of which is not shown.
[126] This was sold by auction only a few years ago.
[127] For Sir Philip Sidney's poetical description of this old game, see his Arcadia, or Brand's Popular Antiquities (Ed. 1841, vol. ii. p. 236).
[128] Baines's History of Lancashire.
[129] To prove the guilt of one of the prisoners, evidence was received that it was the opinion of a man not in court, that she had turned his beer sour. To prove the charge of murder, it was thought sufficient to attest that the sick person had declared his belief that he owed his approaching death to the maledictions of the prisoner. The bleeding of the corpse on the touch of Jennet Preston, was received as an incontrovertible evidence of guilt. It would be nearer the truth to say that nothing but fiction was received in evidence.
[130] Dr. Whitaker's Whalley, p. 528.
[131] W. N. S., in Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol. iv. p. 365.