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 183
the shield, and furnished withmany young persons who are in readiness to rescue the championfrom danger. It appears to have been a very popular pastime;for the bridge, the wharfs, and the houses near the river, werecrowded with people on this occasion, who come, says the author,to see the sports… … 29. The Water Quintain—XIV. Century.Vegetius de re mihiari, lib. i. cap. xi. et xiv. Kvvravov xovra^ .VPC ^/ff TrvpTric, quintanura contacem sine fibula. Cod. detoribus, lib. iii. tit. 43. Stenhanides Descrip. Lond. ^ 2 B. vii. CHAP. I. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 117 VI.—RUNNING AT THE QUINTAIN…
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