Harebell. _Hyacinthus non scriptus._
Dedicated to _St. George_.
[100] In the Golden Legend.
[101] Germany.
[102] Collection of Old Ballads, 3 vols.
[103] In his Reliques.
[104] Coll. Old ballads.
[105] Fosbroke’s Dict. Antiq., Crabbe’s Techn. Dict.
[106] Brady’s Clavis Coll.
[107] Nare’s Glossary, from Warton, &c. which Glossary also see
further concerning St. George.
[108] Mr. Gifford, Life of Ben Jonson.
[109] Athenæum.
[110] Worlidge’s Mystery of Husbandry.
[111] Observations on the Brumal Retreat of the Swallow, by Thos.
Forster, F. L. S. &c. fifth edit. 1817 8vo.
~April 24.~
_St. Fidelis._ _St. Mellitus_, Abp. of Canterbury, A. D. 624. _Sts.
Bona_, or _Beuve_, A. D. 673, and _Doda_, Abbesses. _B. Robert_,
Abbot, A. D. 1067.
_St. Fidelis._
According to Butler this saint was a missionary among the Calvinists in
Switzerland, was killed by their soldiers in 1622, he and his relics
worked three hundred and five miracles, and he was canonized in 1729 by
pope Benedict XIII.
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