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 209
cliap. lix. 142 SPORTS AND PASTIMES HOOK in. Thomas Harpingham and sir John de Barres, says, As methought the usage was thanne, their helmes wer tied but with alace, to the entente the spere should take no hold ; by whichit seems the trick became more common afterwards. Below is a representation of… … ■li;. Justing.—XIV. CENXuRy. This delineation was made before the introduction of thebarrier, which was a boarded railing erected in the midst of thelists, but open at both ends, and between four and five feet inheight. In perfornung the justs, the two combatants rode on Froissart, vol. iii. chap,…
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