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 305
68. XIV. Century. This was exhibited about the year 1799, at Sadlers Wells, bya Dutchman, who not only supported a wheel upon his shoulder,but also upon his forehead and his chin: and he afterwardsextended the performance to two wheels tied tog-ether, with aboy standing upon one of them. The latter… … 69. Balancing.—XI\. Centurt. In the middle of the eighteenth century, there was a verycelebrated balance-master, named Mattocks, who made his ap-pearance also at the Wells; among other tricks, he used tobalance a straw with great adroitness, sometimes on one hand,sometimes on the other; and…
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