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 189
art of it, as a substitute for the shield that had been usedin times remote; and such as could not procure horses, con-tented themselves with running at this mark on foot. The fol-lowing representation of a lad mounted on a wooden horsewith four wheels, and drawn by two of his comrades tiltingat… … oO. Fixed Qiintaix—XIV. Century. Otliers, ng;ain, juadc use of a moveable quintain, which was alsover^ simply constructed ; consisting- only of a cross-bar turningsupon a ])ivot, m ith a broad part to stiike against on one side, anda bag- of earth or sand depending from the other: there was adouble…
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