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
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. … The two last sports \vere probably never exhibited by militarymen, but by rustics and others in imitation of the human quintain.The contest between the two fig-iues below, seems to dependupon the breaking of fhe stick which both of them hold, or is a struffale to overthrow each other.
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