[997] Notes and Queries, 2nd Ser., V. pp. 391-2.
[998] Notes and Queries, 2nd Ser., V. p. 447.
[999] J. Brady, Clavis Calendaria, 1812, I. pp. 276-80.
[1000] Yew-Trees, p. 98, cf. Folk-Lore, XIII. p. 201.
[1001] Fam. Trees, p. 61.
[1002] Twelfth Night, Act ii. Sc. 4.
[1003] Concerning the use of the yew at funerals, see Brand, Pop. Antiq., II. p. 312; Tyack, Lore and Legend of the Eng. Church, p. 56; Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., IV. p. 532. The purely literary references might be greatly extended; consult, e.g., Lowe, Yew-Trees, passim, also T. N. Brushfield, in Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church, ed. W. Andrews, 1897, pp. 256-78.
[1004] Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia, ed. S. Wilkins, 1884, III. p. 25.
[1005] Sir R. Phillimore, Eccles. Law, 2nd edition, 1895, p. 1407. Brand, Pop. Antiq., II. p. 256. G. White, Selborne, p. 421. Statutes of the Realm, 1810, I. p. 221. The date of the Act said to be uncertain.
[1006] Lore and Legend of the Eng. Church, p. 54. C. G. Prideaux, Prac. Guide to the Duties of Churchwardens, ed. F. C. Mackarness, 1895, p. 331. H. W. Cripps, Laws relating to the Church and Clergy, 1886, pp. 433-4.