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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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Sjst^*- .2. Hand-Ball.—Xl\. Clniuuv.» 20. D. iv. … CHAP. III. OP THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 97 These figures are taken from a manuscript in the HarleianLibrary,^ nearly, if not altogether, coeval in point of antiquitywith the former. The balls are unlike each other; that in theengraving No. 20 is the largest, and bears the marking of theseams.…

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