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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 (1830)

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 101

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th 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 Tales. Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk. * That is, to the windward; I use the authors own words. * MS. Harl. 6395. Merry Passages and… … Ladii s Hawking—XIV. Century. ,. » [The fowls before tlie falconer in tlie original drawing are placed] below in thepresent engraving, to accommodate it to the page.] CHAP. II. OF THE PEOPLE OP ENOIAKO. 31 VI.—FONDNESS OY LADIES AND THE CLERGY FOR HAWKING. We may also here notice, that the ladies…

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