[378] Whitaker, p. 216; Baines, i, p. 607 note, where the name is given as Hartford. The importance of the stone in the Sabbath ceremonies is very marked in the account of a meeting in Northumberland (1673). Ann Armstrong declared that 'she and the rest had drawne their compasse nigh to a bridg end, and the devil placed a stone in the middle of the compasse, they sett themselves downe, and bending towards the stone, repeated the Lord's prayer backwards'. Denham Tracts, ii, p. 307; Surtees Soc., xl, p. 197.
[379] Horneck, pt. ii, pp. 321, 324.
[380] Mather, p. 131.
[381] Harou, La Tradition, vi (1892), p. 367.
[382] Monseur, pp. 2, 88.
[383] De Lancre, Tableau, p. 64.
[384] Id. ib., p. 123.
[385] Kinloch, p. 133.
[386] Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 245. Spelling modernized.
[387] Spalding Club Misc., i, pp. 97-8.