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 187
o the shield, and furnished withmany young persons who are in readiness to rescue the championfrom danger. It appears to have been a very popular pastime^for the bridge, the wharfs, and the houses near the river, werecrowded with people on this occasion, who come, says the author,to see the sports… … ;.9. Tin; Wateii (^l-intain—XI\ . Ckmluv. Vegetius de re. militari, lib. i. cap. xi. et xiv. ^ Kvvravov xovra^ X<^PC V? vpTrig, quintanura coiitacem sine fibula,aleatoribus, lib. iii. tit. 43. ^ Stephanidcs Uescrii*. LonJ. * 2 JB. Cod. devii. CHAP. I. OP THE PEOPLE OP ENGLAND. 117 VI.—RUNNING AT…
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