Note 48 — NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING LIFE.
Reading edition
This tradition is referred to, and the inscription given, in Ray’s Itineraries, 1760, p. 153:—“We rode through a bushet or common called Rodwell-hake, two miles from Leeds, where (according to the vulgar tradition) was once found a stag, with a ring of brass about its neck, having this inscription: