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 331
87. Sword-Play.—XIII. Century. This combat, represented from a manuscript of the thirteenthcentury, in the Royal Library,^ varies, in several respects, fromthat in the engraving- No. 60;- though both, I presume, are dif-ferent modifications of the same performance, as Avell as thatbelow, from a… … 88. Sword-Play.—XIIT. Century. These combats bore some resemblance to those performed bythe Roman gladiators; for which reason the jugglers were some-times called gladiators ])y the early historians; Mimi, salii,balatrones, a?miliani, gladiatores, paloestritte—et tota jocula-torum copia, &c. ^…
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