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 282
ave that I may guess his back to be metalled like a lamprey,that has no bone, but a line like a lute-string-.^ So lately asthe reign of queen Anne, this species of performance continuedto be fashionable; and in one of the Tatlers we meet with thefoUoAving passage: I went on Friday last to the… … 55. Tumbling.—XIII. Centurt. This engraving represents a woman bending herself back-wards, from a MS. of the thirteenth century, in the CottonLibrary.^ 1 Lanebams Letter, in air. Nicholss Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, pp. 16, 17.a No. 115, dated Jan. 3, 1709. Domitian, A. 2. P 2 212 SPORTS AND…
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