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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 218

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,and justing upon the ice by the young Londoners.- The earlyinclination to join in such kind of pastimes is strongly indicatedby the two boys represented on the next page: the j)lace of thehorse is supplied by a long switch, and that of a lance by another,^ See sect. vii. p. 118. * See look ii.… … 4o. Boys Tilting in Pasti.iie. Here we may also add the boat justs, or tilting- upon the water.The representation of a pastime of this kind is given below, froma manuscript of the fourteenth century in the Royal Library.

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