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 169
name cam-buca was applied to this pastime, and it derived the denomi-nation, no doubt, from the crooked club or bat with which it wasplayed; the bat was also called a bandy, from its being bent,and hence the game itself is frequently written in Englishbandy-ball. Below are two figures engaged at… … 23. Bandy-Ball.—XIV. Century. Goff, according to the present modification of the game, isperformed with a bat, not much unlike the bandy : the handleof this instrument is straight, and usually made of ash, aboutfour feet and a half in length; the curvature is affixed to thebottom, faced with horn…
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