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Thus We fee that bows of Englifn yew were on-ly 

 equal in valae to the mofl inferior of the foreign 

 ones ; and they feem rather to have been ufed for 

 domeftic exercife and praftice, than to be relied on 

 for deeds of valour in the field of battl j. But fup- 

 pofe the trees planted even for ihis purpofe, we 

 cannot conceive it poffible that all our flatutes 

 would have been filent on the fubjecl ; and we 

 ihould undoubtedly have had much more confider- 

 able remains of them than now occur. 



Sir Thomas Brown, in his Urn Burial, fays, " it 

 may admit conjecture, v^'heiher the planting of yew 

 trees in church-yards, had not its original from 

 ancient fiinei'al rites^ or as an emblem of refurrec- 

 tion, from its perpetual verdure." 



An intelligent v-nter has remarked, that in this 

 Country there vv^as formerly a proceiiion (as in Ca- 

 tholic countries there Hill is) on Palm Sunday, in 

 memor)^ of the entrance of Chrifl into Jerufalem, 

 where branches of palm-trees were ftrewed in liis 

 ■way. We have authority that pabns were bonie in 

 the proceiiion v/ith us till the reign of Edward VI. 

 An old manufcript ftates, that in this country, from 

 want of olive, that *' berith greene leves," pahn was 

 ufed to be carried in its Tcead. From thefe intima- 

 tions it is evident that fomething green , called pa!m^ 

 was carried in proceiiion on Palm Sunday, which is 

 fomctimes fo early in the year as the 1 5th of March, 

 and never later than the 1 8th of April, when very 

 fev/ plants are in leaf: and in fome church-yards in 



