1. B. MacCuarta, ‘A Planter’s Funeral, Legacies, and Inventory: Sir Matthew de Renzy (1577–1634)’, JRSAI, 127 (1996), pp. 20, 27. On English bellringing, Beaver, Parish Communities, p. 99;
2. F. Peacock, ‘Church Bells: When and Why they were Rung’; E. Howlett, ‘Burial Customs’, both in A. Andrews (ed.), Curious Church Customs (Hull, 1895), pp. 33–48, 128–31.
3. L. M. Ballard, ‘Dressing for Death’, NMAJ, 34 (1992), pp. 88–90 on ‘laying out’ in the nineteenth century.
4. H. F. Berry, ‘The Merchant Tailors’ Gild — that of St. John the Baptist, Dublin, 1418–1841’, JRSAI, 48 (1918), p. 25.
5. For examples see M. F. Hurley et al. (eds), Late Viking and Medieval Waterford Excavations 1686–1992 (Waterford, 1992), p. 215;