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 360
ach foot,- all of Hist. Abat. Croyland. Ingulphus died 1109. 2 See CLauncys Hist, of Hertfordshire, p. 383. [In 1800.; CHAP. I. OP THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 293 which he managed with great adroiUiess, and performed a vastvariety of tunes. The small bells were not always held in the hand ; they… … 96. Hand-bells.—XIV. Century. The figure in the original is designed as a representation ofking David, and affixed to one of his psalms. XL—BURLESQUE MUSIC.The minstrels and joculators seem to have had the knack ofconverting every kind of amusement into a vehicle for merri-ment, and among others,…
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