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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 155

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)Y two competitors who struQgled one with the other, and heMho pulled his opponent from the shoulders of his carrier Masthe victor. … 19. The representations of this curious pastime are taken fromdifferent manuscripts; one in the Royal Library, and the otherin the Bodleian Library at Oxford, dated L344. Survey of Cornwall, 1602, p. 75. Ittxoc. * 2, B. vii. ^ 216t, Bod. 2d4. Pollux, lib.ix. cap. 7. CHAP. II. OF THE PEOPLE OF…

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