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 193
e stroke of thepole or lance on one side with his shield, and by doing so withadroitness occasion the fall of his adversary. Something of a similar kind of exercise, though practised in adifferent way, appears in the following engraving, where aman seated, holds up one of his feet, opposed to the… … And again M-here bis opponent is seated in a swing* and drawnback by a third person, so that the rope being left at liberty intlie swing-, the man of course descended with great force, andstriking the foot of his antagonist with much violence, no doubtvery frequently overthrew him.
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