[437] E. K. Chambers, op. cit. I. p. 163.
[438] J. Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (1686-7), ed. J. Britten, 1881, p. 5; cf. p. 213. Cf. P. Stubbes, Anatomie of Abuses, pp. 146-8.
[439] Curious Church Customs, pp. 13-14. Cf. T. S. Knowlson, Origins of Pop. Superstitions and Customs, 1910, pp. 205-7.
[440] C. J. Von Hefele, Hist. of the Councils of the Church, 1896, V. pp. 234-5.
[441] E. Stone, God’s Acre: or Histor. Notices relating to Churchyards, 1858, pp. 99-100.
[442] D. Wilkins, Leges Anglo-Saxonicae, 1781, p. 24. Cf. E. L. Cutts, op. cit. p. 69.
[443] E. Stone, op. cit. pp. 98-9. For detailed instances of laxity in Essex, see J. C. Cox and J. H. Round, Vict. Hist. of Essex, 1907, II. pp. 41 et seqq. Cf. P. Kalm, Account of his Visit to England (1748), trans. J. Lucas, 1892, p. 42. In A.D. 1603, the vicar of Lydden, Kent, built a stable in the churchyard (Home Counties Magazine, 1911, XIII. p. 15).
[444] W. H. Beckett, The Eng. Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, 1890, p. 34.
[445] Prideaux’s Churchwarden’s Guide, ed. F. C. Mackarness, 1895, p. 321.
[446] Antiquary, 1899, XXXV. p. 361. Cf. Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., II. pp. 49-50. Cf. pp. 95-6.