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 124
11. Practising ^yna the Cross-Bow. Below is an engraving from a painting- on another manuscriptin the Royal Library inuch more modern.^ … IJ. Cuo5S-Bow !Si;oOTi>o at the Butts.—XVI. Century.} 2 B. vii. > 19, C. viii. datecl 1496. M SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK II. Here we find cxliibitetla ficbool for practice; and the mannerin Avliich the nrcher« shot at the butts, or dead marks, a pastimefrequently alluded to by the authors of…
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