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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 449

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114. A Green Man. [In 1800.] s Seep. 375. ^ See p. 375 ; aad the Introduction ; whence it appears these green men attendedthe pageants, and preceded the principal persons iu the procession to clear the way. 378 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK lY. This engravings, representing the character equipped in… … 115. A WODEHOUSE. This character, which is that of a wild or savage man, wasvery common in the pageants of former times, and seems to havebeen very popular. It was in a dress like this, I suppose,that Gascoyne appeared before queen Elizabeth; see p. 253.The figure itself is taken from a ballad, in…

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