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 387
ng little battle. But I trust, as before observed, that the deri-vation may be found nearer home. The words are perfectlySaxon, as Bac, or Boec, and gamen, that is, Back Game; sodenominated because the performance consists in the playersbringing their men back from their antagonists tables into… … 108. Tables.—XIII. Century. The original of the engravitig occurs in a beautifully illu-minated manuscript in the Harleian Collection.^ The table,as here delineated, is not divided in the middle, but the points. Du Cange, Gloss, ia voce Tabula.* No. 1527. 2 See the Introduction CHAP. II. OF THE…
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