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 314
N THE XIII. CENTURY. We are told that, in the thirteenth century, a horse was ex-hibited by the joculators, which danced upon a rope; and oxenwere rendered so docile as to ride upon horses, holding- trum-pets to their mouths as though they were sounding them.^ Ac-cordingly we find the… … 76. A Horse baited with Dogs. Another manuscript, more ancient by at least half a century,in the same collection, represents
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