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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 190

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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. … This feat the single figure, represented below from the OxfordMS. of 1344, seems to have achieved, and is bearing away thepole in triumph.

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