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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 279

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56. Tumbling—XIV. Century. In this second representation a man is performing tne samefeat, but in a more extraordinary manner. The original is con-tained in a MS. in the library of sir Hans Sloane.^ … 57. Tumbling.—XIV. Century This representation of a girl turning over upon her hands, isfrom a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.^ Both theseMSS. are of the fourteenth century. Feats of activity by tum-blers were then, as at present, enlivened with music. » No. 335. No. 264. CHAP. V. OF THE…

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