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 213
. lix. 142 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK III. Thomas Harpino-ham and sir John de Barres, says, As methoufi^ht the usage was thanne, their helmes wer tied but with alace, to the entente the sperc should take no hold ; by whichit seems the trick became more common afterwards.^ Below is a representation of… … 42. Justing.—XIV. Centv This delineation was made before the introduction of thebarrier, which was a boarded railing erected in the midst of thelists, but open at both ends, and between four and five feet inhcioht. In performing the justs, the two combatants rode on • Froissart, vol. iii. chap,…
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