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 176
om cambucor goff, in the edict above mentioned established by Edward III.The difference seems to have consisted in the one being playedwith a curved bat and the other with a straight one. Thefollowing engravings represent two specimens of club-ball; thefirst, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library,… … 24. Club-Ball.—XIV. Century. Behind the woman at a little distance appear in the originaldelineation several other figures of both sexes, Avaiting atten-tively to catch or stop the ball when returned by the batsman :these figures have been damaged, and are very indistinct inmany parts, for which…
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