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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 76

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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. … 2. Spearino a Boar—XIV. Century. Tlie above is a representation of the manner of attacking thewild boar, from a manuscript written about the commencementof the fourteenth century, in the possession of Francis Douce, Esq.

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