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Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions (1810)

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802 · London : Printed by T. Bensley, for White and Co. [and 7 more] · leaf 496

An illustration from Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions, 1810, leaf 496
g note. From a Book of Prayers written in the fourteenth century, in the possession of F. Douce, Esq.k Unless we may suppose them to represent two of the ridiculous ceremonies belonging to the fes-tival of fools, see page 303. And I suspect the monks with the nuns upon the middle of the plate…

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