[25] Dugdale, Warw. i. 135. Some tiny fragments of this window yet remain in the Archdeacon's Chapel of Trinity Church. See also Gent. Mag. (1829), pt. i. 120-1, for another account of the fragment.

[26] Leet Book (E.E.T.S.), 567.

[27] Rog. Wendover, Flores Historiarum, i. 497.

[28] So an old sexton told Sharp, the antiquary. See also Gent. Mag. Topography, xiii. 53.

[29] Science of Fairy Tales.

[30] Chambers, Mediæval Stage, i. 119.

[31] Grant Allen, Evolution of the Idea of God, 110 (festival of the Pòtraj).

[32] Hartland, op. cit., 77.

[33] As a tyro in folk-lore I venture with some diffidence to put forward the theory that it may be by research in custom and belief as regards the horse that we may arrive at an explanation of some of the problems of this mysterious legend. See Grimm, Teut. Myth. (trans. Stallybrass), 47, 392; Frazer, Golden Bough, ii. 24, 64; Gomme, Ethnology and Folk-lore, 35; Chambers, op. cit., i. 131.

[34] Rudder, Gloucestershire, 307 (quoted Hartland).