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 134
andard, thetarget, hazel Mands, rose garlands, and the popinjay, Mhicb,we are told, was an artificial parrot.^ I have not met with sucha mark in any manuscript delineation; but, in the followingengraving, the reader will find a cock substituted for the parrot,and the archer has discharged his arrow… … 13. Archery.—XIV. Century. I am by no means certain, whether the draughtsman designedto represent an artificial, or a living cock: the manner of itsbeing placed on the post, may favour the first idea; but themouth being open, and the elevation of the head, as if in thelast gasp of life, will…
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