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 470
s practised by the children of this country. I am fullysensible that the list will admit of very many additions, andalso that the pastimes which are included in it have been sub-ject to numberless variations. I have, however, set down allthat I can recollect, and described them according to… … 129. This engraving represents a kind of a mock procession, whereone of the company, equipped in a royal habit with a crownupon his head, is walking with his mantle displayed by twoattendants, and preceded by a zany beating a tambourin with a 400 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK IV. knotted thong-. I…
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