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 86
on.* 2. B. vii. [la the original drawing, and on IMr. Strutts plate, tlie figures pur-?uin-aiid pursued are in a line together: but for the purpose of including all thefii;iires within the preceding page, the lady on horseback is placed above, instead ofbehind the female archer.] \ - :\IS. llarl.… … 5. Hunting Chesses.—XV. Century. XII. -PRIVILEGES OF TPIE CITIZENS OF LONDON TO HUNTAND HAWK. The citizens of Londoh were permitted to hunt and hawk incertain districts. And one of the clauses, in the royal chartergranted to them by Henry I., runs to this purport: The citizensof London may have…
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