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 213
ion of the spears and shields, if dexterously managed,one or both of the men were cast to the ground. Sometimes, as wemay see by the subjoined figure from a curious engraving onwood by Hans Burgmair, which makes one of a series of printsrepresenting the history and achievements of the emperor… … 44. Toys, representing Kniohts Justing. XXXI.—BOAT JUSTS, OR TILTING ON THE WATER. It has been previously observed, that all persons below therank of an esquire were excluded from the justs and the tourna-ments ; but the celebration of these pastimes attracted the commonmind in a very powerful…
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