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 76
ely travelled withoutthem. He is so represented upon the famous tapestry of liayeux,•with his hounds by his side and a liaAvk upon his hand, m henbrought before William duke of Normandy.^ Travelling thusaccompanied, was not a singular trait in the character of a noble-man at this period. » Will.… … 1. Swine Hcntino—IX. Centubt. The above engraving represents a Saxon chieftain, attendedby his huntsman and a couple of hounds, pursuing- the wildswine in a forest, taken from a manuscriptal painting of theninth century in the Cotton Library.
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