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 467
mpany, equipped in a royal habit with a ciownupon his head, is walking with Iiis mantle displayed by twoattendants, and preceded by a zany beating a t auibourin with 400 SPORTS AND PASTIMES noOK !V, knotted thong. I presume it to be the installation of the Kingof the Bean, who has already been… … s^;ss?*c, This may probably refer to the amusement at wakes andfairs, where various tasks for pastime sake are frequently as-signed to blindfolded persons, as the Wheelbarrow Race, de-scribed on a preceding* page. The drawings from whence thetwo last engravings are derived, are in the Bodleian MS.…
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