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
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. … 38. XII.—RUNNING AT THE RING. Tilting, or, as it is most commonly called, rumiing at the riilg,was also a fashionable pastime in ibrmer days; the ring is evi-dently derived from the quintain, and indeed the sport itself isfrequently called running or tilting at the quintain. With theItalians, says…
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