[96a] Page 244.
[96b] Page 249.
[96c] The old name for the kettle-drum was nakers, a word of Arabic or Saracenic origin.
[96d] The larger of the kettle-drums has a range of five notes from the bass F, immediately below the line. The smaller drum’s range (also of five notes) is from the B flat, just below the highest note of the bigger drum (p. 253).
[97] The earliest use of the name kettle-drum is in 1551 (Galpin, p. 251).
[100a] The name, however, is apparently not as old as the ceremonies. It is said by Britten and Holland (Dictionary of Plant-names) to have been invented by Gerard (1597).
[100b] Prior, The Popular Names of British Plants, ed. iii., 1879, p. 89.
[100c] Blomefield (formerly Jenyns) was a contemporary of my father’s at Cambridge, and was remarkable for wide knowledge, and especially for the minute accuracy of his work. He kept for many years a diary of the dates of flowering of plants and of other phenomena, which the Cambridge University Press republished in 1903 as A Naturalist’s Calendar.
[106] Guy Mannering, vol. ii., ch. xxiv.
[107] Britten and Holland.