[686] See Butler’s “Lives of the Saints.”
[687] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 868; Brady’s “Clavis Calendaria.”
[688] Nich. Harpsfield, “Hist. Eccl. Anglicana,” p. 86.
[689] See “British Popular Customs,” p. 404.
[690] Puling, or singing small, as Bailey explains the word.
[691] See Swainson’s “Weather-Lore,” 1873, pp. 141-143.
[692] See “British Popular Customs,” p. 409.
[693] See Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 25; “The Church of Our Fathers,” by D. Rock, 1853, vol. iii. p. 215; Gent. Mag., 1777, vol. xliii. p. 158; see Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. pp. 601, 602; Brady’s “Clavis Calendaria.”
[694] Drake’s “Shakespeare and his Times,” vol. i. p. 198.
[695] See Sandy’s “Christmastide, its History, Festivities, and Carols;” also Athenæum, Dec. 20, 1856.