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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 391

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little battle. But I trust, as before observed, that the deri-vation may be found nearer home. The words are perfectlySaxon, as Bac, or Boec, and jamen, that is, Back Game; sodenominated because the performance consists in the playersbrinofino: their men back from their antagonists tables into… … 108. Tables.—XIII. Century. The original of the engraving occurs in a beautifully illu-minated manuscript in the Ilarleian Collection.^ The table,]as here delineated, is not divided in the middle, but the points,] Du Cange, Gloss, ia voce Tabula.3 ]\o. 1527. 3 See the Introduction. CHAP. II. OF THE…

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