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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 156

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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… … This seems to bear more analogy to wrestling than to anyother sport, for which reason I have given it a place in the pre-sent chapter. XVI.—SWIMMING. Swimming is an exercise of great antiquity; and, no doubt,familiar to the inhabitants of this country, at all times. Theheroes of the middle ages are…

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