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 462
xposed,is carried upon a long pole by two of his companions; heholds the bird in his hands, and is followed by a third comrade,who bears a flag emblazoned with a cudgel, the dreadful in-strument used upon these occasions. The original paintino-occurs in the manuscript mentioned in the preceding… … 126. In this, which is from the just cited Bodleian MS., Me seea young man seated upon a round pole which may readilyturn either way, and immediately beneath him is a vessel nearlyfilled with water; he holds a taper in each hand, and one ofthem is lighted, and his business, I presume, is to bring…
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