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 194
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. … 37. I This feat the single figure, represented below from the OxfordMS. of 1344, seems to have achieved, and is bearing- away thepole in triumph.
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