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 278
;save that I may guess his back to be metalled like a lamprey,that has no bone, but a line like a lute-string. So lately asthe reign of queen Anne, this species of performance continuedto be fashionable; and in one of the Tatlers we meet with thefollowing passage: I went on Friday last to the… … 55. Tumbling.—XIII. Century. This engraving represents a woman bending herself back«wards, from a MS. of the thirteenth century, in the CottonLibrary.^ Lanehams Letter, in Mr. Nichols B Progresses of Queen Elizab<: th, pp. 15, 17.» No. 115, dated Jan. 3, 1709. 3 Domilian, A. 2. P 2 2\2 SPOUTS…
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