Note 554 — Chapter V · THE ORIENTATION OF CHURCHES
Reading edition
Brand, Pop. Antiq., II. pp. 6-7; Notes and Queries, 8th Ser., IV. p. 133. The passage is based on a manuscript by Aubrey, written in 1678, entitled Customs and Manners of the English. During the Commonwealth, Domville ransacked the Cathedral libraries of Hereford and Worcester with great zeal, and was guilty of filching at least one document (Dict. of Nat. Biog., under “Domville, Silas”). Hence he may have got his information from early sources.