[579] Kinloch, p. 120.

[580] Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 139.

[581] Chambers, iii, p. 298.

[582] Stewart, p. 175.

[583] Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 294.

[584] Holinshed, Ireland, p. 58.

[585] Boguet, p. 141.

[586] De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 401-2.

[587] Michaelis, Hist., p. 337. The use of this phrase suggests that the sprinkling was a fertility rite.

[588] Fountainhall, i, pp. 14, 15.