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 464
iji. » No.26t. Pollux, lib. ix. cap. CHAP. IV. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 393 … 122. HoODMAN Blind.—XIV. Century. The players who are blinded have their hoods reversed upontheir heads for that purpose, and the hoods of their companionsare separately bound in a knot to buffet them. Hot Cockles, from the French hautes-coquilles, is a play inwhich one kneels, and covering his…
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