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
This feat the single figure, represented below from the OxfordMS. of 1344, seems to have achieved, and is bearing away thepole in triumph. … 38. XII.—RUNNING AT THE RING. TiltiDg or, as it is most commonly called, running at the nng,was aiso a fashionable pastime in former days; the ring is evi-dently derived from the quintain, and indeed the sport itself isfrequently called running or tilting at the quintain. With theItalians, says Du…
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