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 384
e, and says it was playedhere commonly with stones, but in France with pawns, or men,made on purpose, and they were termed merelles; hence thepastime itself received that denomination. It was certainlymuch used by the shepherds formerly, and continues to beused by them, and other rustics, to the… … 106. Ml-RELLES. These lines have not been varied. The black spots at everyangle and intersection of the lines are the places for the men tobe laid upon. The men are different in form or colour for dis-tinction sake; and from the moving these men backwards orforwards, as though they were dancing a…
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