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 163
nd is much commended for the healthiness of theexercise it afforded. The balloon-ball seems certainly to haveoriginated from the hand-ball, and was, I apprehend, firstplayed in England Avithout the assistance of the bracer; thissupposition will be perfectly established if it be granted, andI see no… … 21. Balloon-Ball.—XIV. Century. The following engraving represents a gentleman and ladyplaying at hand-ball, and as far as one can judge from the re-presentation, the pastime consisted in merely be?ting the ballfrom one to the other.
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