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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

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35. The two last sports were probably never exhibited by militarymen, but by rustics and others in imitation of the human quintain.The contest between the two figures below, seems to dependupon the breaking of the stick which both of them hold, or is astruggle to overthrow each other … 36 CHAP, I. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 123 The following engraving from a manuscript book of prayers ofthe fourteenth century, in the possession of Mr. Douce, representstwo men with a pole or headless spear, who grasp it at eitherena, and are contending which shall dispossess the other ofhis hold.

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