Note 1003 — Chapter IX · THE CHURCHYARD YEW
Reading edition
Concerning the use of the yew at funerals, see Brand, Pop. Antiq., II. p. 312; Tyack, Lore and Legend of the Eng. Church, p. 56; Notes and Queries, 7th Ser., IV. p. 532. The purely literary references might be greatly extended; consult, e.g., Lowe, Yew-Trees, passim, also T. N. Brushfield, in Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church, ed. W. Andrews, 1897, pp. 256-78.