The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 139
estors the Saxons, who seem to have been skilful in themanagement of the sling; its form is preserved in several of theirpaintings, and the manner in which it was used by them, as farback as the eighth century, may be seen below, ft-om a manu-script of that age in the Cotton Library. It is there… … Slinging—VIII. Century. In other instances we see it depicted with both the ends heldin the hand, the figure being placed in the action of taking hisaim, and a bird is generally the object of his exertion, as inthe following engraving from a parchment roll in the RoyalLibrary, containing a…
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