[327] _Cf._ Johnson, W., _Folk Memory_, p. 143. [328] Among the many Prestons I have enquired into is one with which I am conversant near Faversham. Here the Manor House is known as Perry Court; similarly there is a Perry Court at a second Preston situated a few miles distant. In the neighbourhood are Perry woods. There is a modern "Purston" at Pontefract, which figured in Domesday under the form "Prestun". [329] Taylor, Rev. T., _Celtic Christianity of Cornwall_, p. 33. [330] Courtney, Miss M. L., _Cornish Feasts and Folklore_, p. 123. [331] Haslam, Wm., _Perranzabuloe_. [332] _Ibid._, p. 60. [333] "Mr. W. Mackenzie, Procurator Fiscal of Cromarty, writes me from Dingwall (10th September, 1917), as follows: 'We are not without some traces and traditions of phallic worship here. There is a stone in the _Brahan_ Wood which is said to be a "knocking stone". Barren women sat in close contact upon it for the purpose of becoming fertile. It serves the purpose of the mandrake in the East. I have seen the stone. It lies in the Brahan Wood about three miles from Dingwall.'"--Frazer, Sir J. G., quoted from _Folklore_, 1918, p. 219. [334] Guerber, H. A., _Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages_, p. 219. [335] Guerber, H. A., _Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages_, p. 221. [336] "The Brehon laws are the most archaic system of law and jurisprudence of Western Europe. This was the code of the ancient Gaels, or Keltic-speaking Irish, which existed in an unwritten form long before it was brought into harmony with Christian sentiments.... It is impossible to study these laws and the manners and customs of the early Irish, together with their land tenure, and to compare them with the laws of Manu, and with the light thrown on the Aryans of India by the Sanskrit writings without coming to the conclusion that they had a common origin."--Macnamara, N. C., _Origin and Character of the British People_, p. 94. [337] _Place-names of England and Wales_, p. 406.