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 72
that he rarely travelled withoutthem. He is so represented upon the famous tapestry of Bayeux,with his hounds by his side and a hawk upon his hand, whenbrought before William duke of Normandy.^ Travelling thusaccompanied, Avas not a singular trait in the character of a noble-man at this period,… … 1. S\V7NE Hunting—IX. Century. The above engraving reprtsents a Saxon chieftain, attenoedby his liuntsman and a couple of hounds, pursuing- the wildSMine in a forest, taken from a nianuscriptal •>ainting of theninth century in the Cotton Library.*
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