[1007] Yew-Trees, p. 101. The error was apparently due to a misunderstanding of the reference in Brand’s Popular Antiquities, 1849, II. p. 256 n.
[1008] Notes and Queries, 5th Ser., XII. p. 113.
[1009] G. White, Selborne, pp. 421-2.
[1010] Daines Barrington, Observations on the more ancient Statutes, 1785, p. 191. See also J. Vaughan, Lighter Studies of a Country Rector, 1909, ch. xii. pp. 121-8.
[1011] Cedars and cypresses are common in Sussex churchyards.
[1012] Yew-Trees, pp. 131-2.
[1013] Yew-Trees, pp. 112-113. C. J. Longman and H. Walrond, Archery (Badminton Library), 1894, p. 28.
[1014] Archery, p. 28. G. A. Hansard, Book of Archery, 1840, pp. 226-7.
[1015] Archery, p. 103. Ency. Brit., 11th edition, under Archery. J. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Bk II. chap. i., gives several facts to prove that the Saxons were acquainted with the bow and arrow. For a more guarded view, see Baron J. de Baye, Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, trans. T. B. Harbottle, 1893, pp. 30-1.
[1016] New Oxford Dict., under “Bow” and “Arrow.”