[1067] Brand, Pop. Antiquities, II. p. 312; Hansard, Archery, p. 331. Pepys mentions a churchyard near Southampton where the graves were “sowed with sage” (Diary, ed. Richard, Lord Braybrooke, 1887, p. 98).
[1068] G. Allen, Evolution of the Idea of God (R. P. A. edition, 1903), p. 55.
[1069] Gentleman’s Magazine, LI. p. 10.
[1070] J. Macpherson, Poems of Ossian, 8th edition, I. p. 240, quoted by Lowe and others. (I cannot discover the passage. W. J.)
[1071] Notes and Queries, 8th Ser., IX. p. 77; Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. Soc., XVII. 1896, pp. 135, 138-140. The earthworks are described by A. H. Allcroft, Earthwork of England, 1908, pp. 564, 566.
[1072] Sir J. Rhŷs, Celtic Folklore, 1891, II. p. 424.
[1073] E. O’Curry, Manners and Customs of the Irish, 1873, II. pp. 193-4. Cf. J. B. Bury, Life of St Patrick, 1905, p. 76.
[1074] Gomme, Ethnology in Folklore, p. 60.
[1075] R. Forby, Vocab. of East Anglia, 1830, I. p. 413.
[1076] Manners and Customs of the Irish, l.c. Buckets made of yew have been discovered in Anglo-Saxon graves at Linton Heath (Cambs.) and Roundway Down (Wilts.). Indus. Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, p. 102. Cf. Folk-Lore, XIII. p. 96.