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

by Joseph Strutt

[ [20] Written also paume; that is, hand-tennice.

[ [21] Romance of Three Kings' Sons and the King of Sicily, Harl. MS. 326.

[ [22] Mem. Anc. Cheval. tom. i. p. 16.

[ [23] Harl. MS. 2252.

[ [24] Ibid.

[ [25] Printed by Copeland; black letter, without date; Garrick's Collection, K. vol. ix.

[ [26] That is, all of the lords and other nobility who were seated in the hall.

[ [27] For vierge escu, a virgin shield, or a white shield, without any devices, such as was borne by the tyros in chivalry who had not performed any memorable action.

[ [28] A sword without edge or point, as it is explained in the following articles.

[ [29] That is, with heads without points, or blunted so that, they could do no hurt.