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
lsovery 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 advantage in these kind of quintains, they were cheapand easily to be procured. Their form, at an… … 31. MovEAiiLE Quintain—XIV. Century. VII.—MANNER OF EXERCISING WITH THE QUINTAIN. But to return: Stow, in his Survey of London, having relatedthe above-mentioned disturbance from Matthew Paris, goes onas follows : This exercise of running at the quintain, was prac-tised in London, as well in the…
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