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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

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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. … 36, CHAP. I. OP THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 123 The following engraving- from a manuscript book of prayers ofthe fourteenth century, in the possession of Mr. Douce, representstwo men with a pole or headless spear, who grasp it at eitherend, and are contending which shall dispossess the other ofhis hold.

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