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 82
n Collection.^ * 2. B. vii. [In the original drawing, and on Mr. Strutts plate, the figures pur-suing and pursued are in a line together: but for the purpose of including all thefigures within the preceding page, the lady on horseback is placed above, instead ofbehind the female archer.] « MS.… … XV. Century. Xll. -PRIVILEGES OF THE CITIZENS OF LONDON TO HUNTAND HAWK. The citizens of London were permitted to hunt and hawk incertain districts. And one of the clauses, in the royal chartergranted to them by Henry I., runs to this purport: The citizensof London may have chases, and hunt as…
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