[927] E. Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, 1908, II. pp. 255-6.
[928] A. Lang, in Folk-Lore, 1909, XX. pp. 88-9.
[929] Westermarck, op. cit. II. Chap. xxv. which is full of curious lore concerning suicide. Cf. J. G. Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, 1910, II. p. 508; III. p. 152.
[930] Westermarck, op. cit. II. p. 256 n.
[931] A. Lang, loc. cit.
[932] Westermarck, op. cit. II. p. 255.
[933] H. T. Stephen, Commentaries on the Laws of England, ed. J. Stephen, 1868, IV. p. 152, et seqq. Sir R. Phillimore, op. cit. II. p. 860.
[934] Notes and Queries, 1st Ser., V. p. 189. The burials of which particulars are given occurred at the church of St Nicholas, Newcastle. An invaluable bibliography of “Suicide” is given in Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., IX. pp. 489-91. Westermarck, op. cit., also gives voluminous references.
[935] J. T. B. Syme and J. E. Sowerby, English Botany, 3rd edition, 1868, VIII. pp. 276-7. Ency. Brit., 9th edition, under “Yew.” A good description is given by W. Dallimore, Holly, Yew, and Box, 1908, pp. 153-8. For an account of the timber, see G. S. Boulger, Wood, 2nd edition, 1908, p. 371, and plate.
[936] Sir J. D. Hooker, Student’s Flora, 3rd edition, 1884, pp. 380-1. J. Lowe, Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, 1897, p. 20.