[40] Alse Gooderidge, pp. 9, 10.
[41] Boguet, p. 54.
[42] Wonderfull Discouerie of Elizabeth Sawyer, C 4, rev.
[43] County Folklore, iii, Orkney, pp. 103, 107-8.
[44] Stearne, pp. 28, 38
[45] Highland Papers, iii, pp. 16, 17.
[46] It is possible that the shoe was cleft like the modern 'hygienic' shoe. Such a shoe is described in the ballad of the Cobler of Canterbury, date 1608, as part of a woman's costume:
'Her sleevës blue, her traine behind,
With silver hookes was tucked, I find;
Her shoës broad, and forked before.'
[47] Danaeus, ch. iv.
[48] De Lancre, Tableau, p. 69.