Yew Tree references (apathy notwithstanding)
i) Strutt JG (1822) Sylva Britannnica or portraits of forest trees, p.1
'in the original charter for building the church of Perone in Picardy dated
in the year 684 a remarkable clause is inserted for the preservation of a
particular yew tree...'
some Welsh legal stuff:
ii) Cambrian Register (?1796) vol vi p.332
a consecrated yew tree = £1
an unconsecrated yew tree = (less) [my notes have failed me here ... ? 3
shillings]
Wotton (1730) Leges Walliae p.262
concept of a yew tree being consecrated to a particular [un-named] saint
the Caxton reference is apparently from
Direction for keeping Feasts all the Year
re Palm Sunday
'...wherefore Holy Churche this day makyth solemn processyon, in memory of
the processyon that Cryst made this day. But for the eucheson that we have
none Olyve that bereth grene leef, algate therefore wue take Ewe instead of
palm and olyve, and beren about in processyon, and so this day is called
Palm Sunday'
are there any early printing buffs who can give accurate details for this
reference?
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