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
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 advantage in these kind of quintains, they were cheapand easily to be procured. Their form, at an… … 31. JNlovEAHLE Quintain—XIV. Century. VII.—MANNER OF EXERCISING WITH THE QUINTAIN. But to return: Stow, in his Survey of Lon<lon, haviiig relatedthe above-mentioned disturbance from ]Matth^w Paris, goes otias follows : Tills exercise of running at the; «|uintain, was prac-tised in London, as…
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