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
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INCLUDING THE RURAL AND DOMESTIC RECREATIONS, MAY GAMES, MUMMERIES, SHOWS, PROCESSIONS, PAGEANTS, & POMPOUS SPECTACLES FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY JOSEPH STRUTT.
ILLUSTRATED BY One Hundred and Forty Engravings.
IN WHICH ARE REPRESENTED
MOST OF THE POPULAR DIVERSIONS; SELECTED FROM ANCIENT PAINTINGS.
A NEW EDITION, WITH A COPIOUS INDEX, BY WILLIAM HONE, AUTHOR OF THE EVERY-DAY BOOK, TABLE BOOK, YEAR BOOK, ETC.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE. 1845.
J. Haddon, Printer, Castle Street, Finsbury.
There are two previous editions of Mr. Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. The first appeared in 1801; the second, which was published in 1810, the year wherein the author died, was an incorrect reprint, without a single additional line. Both were in quarto, and as each of the plates, with few exceptions, contained several subjects referred to in different parts of the work, and as there were no paginal references on the plates, they were frequently embarrassing to the reader.
The present edition is of a more convenient size, and at one-sixth of the price of the former editions; and every engraving is on the page it illustrates.
Joseph Strutt
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ADVERTISEMENT.
I.—OBJECT OF THE WORK, TO DESCRIBE THE PASTIMES AND TRACE THEIR ORIGIN.
II.—THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN.
III.—THE SAXONS.
IV.—THE NORMANS.
V.—TOURNAMENTS AND JUSTS.
VI.—OTHER SPORTS OF THE NOBILITY, AND THE CITIZENS AND YEOMEN.
VII.—KNIGHTLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
VIII.—ESQUIRESHIP.
IX.—MILITARY SPORTS PATRONIZED BY THE LADIES.
X.—DECLINE OF MILITARY EXERCISES.
XI.—DECLINE OF CHIVALRY.
XII.—MILITARY EXERCISES UNDER HENRY VII.
XIII.—MILITARY EXERCISES UNDER HENRY VIII.
XIV.—PRINCELY EXERCISES UNDER JAMES I.
XV.—REVIVAL OF LEARNING.
XVI.—RECREATIONS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
XVII.—OLD SPORTS OF THE CITIZENS OF LONDON.
XVIII.—MODERN PASTIMES OF THE LONDONERS.
XIX.—COTSWOLD AND CORNISH GAMES.
XX.—SPLENDOUR OF THE ANCIENT KINGS AND NOBILITY.
XXI.—ROYAL AND NOBLE ENTERTAINMENTS.
XXII.—CIVIC SHOWS.
XXIII.—SETTING OUT OF PAGEANTS.
XXIV.—PROCESSIONS OF QUEEN MARY AND KING PHILIP OF SPAIN IN LONDON.
XXV.—CHESTER PAGEANTS.
XXVI.—PUBLIC SHOWS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
XXVII.—QUEEN ELIZABETH AT KENELWORTH.
XXVIII.—LOVE OF PUBLIC SIGHTS ILLUSTRATED FROM SHAKSPEARE.
XXIX.—ROPE-DANCING, TUTORED ANIMALS, AND PUPPET-SHOWS.
XXXI.—BAITING OF ANIMALS.
XXXII.—PASTIMES FORMERLY ON SUNDAYS.
XXXIII.—ROYAL INTERFERENCE WITH SUNDAY PASTIMES.
XXXIV.—ZEAL AGAINST WAKES AND MAY-GAMES.
XXXV.—DICE AND CARDS.
XXXVIII.—PROHIBITIONS OF SKITTLE-PLAY.
XXXIX.—ARCHERY SUCCEEDED BY BOWLING.
XL.—MODERN GAMBLING.
XLI.—LADIES' PASTIMES—NEEDLE-WORK.
XLII.—DANCING AND CHESS PLAY.
XLIII.—LADIES' RECREATIONS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
XLIV.—THE AUTHOR'S LABOURS—CHARACTER OF THE ENGRAVINGS.
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