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 96
he fellow being intothe wind^ did not heare him; at which he stormed, and stillcried out, Offwith your jerkin, you knave, off with your jerkin :now it fell out that there was, at that instant, a plaine townsmanof Bury, in a freeze jerkin, stood betwixt him and his falconer,who seeing sir Thomas in… … 6. Saxon Hawking—IX. Century. This engraving represents a Saxon nobleman and his falconer,with their hawks, upon the bank of a river, waiting for therising of the game. The delineation is from a Saxon manuscriptwritten at the close of the ninth century, or at the commence-ment of the tenth; in the…
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