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 471
pany, 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 presume it to be the installation of the Kingof the Bean, who has already been… … 130. This may probably refer to the amusement at wakes andfairs, where various tasks for pastime sake [are frequently as-signed to blindfolded persons, as the Wheelbarrow Race, de-scribed on a preceding page.* The drawings from whence thetwo last engravings are derived, are in the^ Bodleian MS.…
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