[1347] Ibid., II. p. 664.
[1348] D. Defoe, A Tour thro’ the whole Island of Great Britain, 1724, I. p. 60. It will be well to note the reference, since the passage is incorrectly ascribed to other writers. G. Roberts, Soc. Hist. of the S. Counties of England, 1856, p. 487, cites Fuller as the author; and Lord Avebury, Scenery of England, 1902, pp. 440-7, attributes the statement to Arthur Young. About the close of the seventeenth century, carriage-teams of oxen were popular among Roman Catholics, who were prevented by the Penal Laws from possessing a horse (Tozer, The Horse in History, p. 264). Such a carriage-team was used by Lord Sheffield so late as the close of the eighteenth century (Notes and Queries, 10th Ser., XI. p. 136). See also L. V. Lucas, Highways and Byways in Sussex, 3rd edition, 1907, p. 286, where another instance is recorded from Sussex.
[1349] Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., II. p. 317.
[1350] E. C. Brewer, Dict. of Phrase and Fable, under “Ox.”
[1351] T. Percy, Reliques of Anc. Eng. Poetry, ed. H. B. Wheatley, 1891, III. p. 112.
[1352] Zoological Mythology, I. p. 258.
[1353] Survey of Cornwall, p. 24.
[1354] Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., XI. p. 62. R. Southey, Commonplace Book, ed. J. W. Warter, 1876, Ser. IV. p. 388.
[1355] Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., XI. p. 236.
[1356] J. Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, vv. 5, 23. Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian, chs. xxxix., xlv. See also Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., IV. p. 466.