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 97
century, preserved in the Royal Library.^ Wesee a party of both sexes hawking by the water side; the fal- Garricks Collect, of old Plays, K. vol. X Canterbury Talcs. » Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk. * That is, to the windward; I use the authors own words. * MS. Harl. 6395. Merry Passages and Jeasts,… … 8. Ladies Hawking—XIV. Centur*. [The fowls before the falconer in the original drawing are placed below in thepresent engraving, to accommodate it to the page.] CHAP. II, OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 31 VI.—FONDNESS OF LADIES AND THE CLERGY FOR HAWKIJ^JG. We may also here notice, that the ladies not…
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