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 189
the stroke of thepole or lance on one side with his shield, and by doing so withadroitness occasion the fall of his adversary. Something of a similar kind of exercise, though practised in adifferent way, appears in the following engraving, where aman seated, holds up one of his feet, opposed to the… … And again where his opponent is seated in a swing and drawnback by a third person, so that the rope being left at liberty inthe swing, the man of course descended with great force, andstriking the foot of his antagonist with much violence, no doubtvery frequently overthrew him.
Games -- Great Britain · Sports -- Great Britain · England -- Social life and customs
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