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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 167

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and is much commended for the healthiness of theexercise it afforded. The balloon-ball seems certainly to haveoriginated from the hand-ball, and was, I apprehend, firstplayed in England m ithout the assistance of the bracer; thissupposition will be perfectly established if it be granted, andI see… … 21, Balloon-Ball.—XIV. Century. The following engraving represents a gentleman and ladyplaying at hand-ball, and as far as one can judge from the re-presentation, the pastime consisted in merely beating the ballfrom one to the other. O

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