Note 222 — Chapter XIII · Story Telling.
Reading edition
“He that gives away all Before he is dead, Let ’em take this hatchet And knock him on ye head.”
Notes and Queries, IV. Series, Vol. III., pp. 526 and 589. Vol. IV., p. 213. See Gentleman’s Magazine Library. Popular Superstitions. The Holy Maul, p. 181. Compare representation of a hammer or pickaxe, sculptured on threshold of west door of Vale Church.