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 185
t of it, as a substitute for the shield that had been usedin times remote; and such as could not procure horses, con-tented themselves with running at this mark on foot. The fol-lowing representation of a lad mounted on a wooden horsewith four wheels, and drann by two of his comrades tiltingat the… … 30. Fixed Quintain—XIV. Century. Others, again, made use of a moveable quintain, which was alsovery simply constructed ; consisting only of a cross-bar turningupon a pivot, with a broad part to strike against on one side, anda bag of earth or sand depending from the other: there was adouble…
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