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

[ [40] See the first and second chapters in the body of the work.

[ [41] The words of Fitz Stephen are, "Puellarum cithara ducit choros, et pede libero pulsatur tellus, usque imminente lunâ." The word cithara, Stow renders, but I think not justly, timbrels.

[ [42] Vol. i. p. 257.

[ [43] Athen. Oxon. ii. col. 812; and see Granger's Biographical History, vol. ii. p. 398 8vo.

[ [44] In his Proverbs, part I, chap. 11

[ [45] Scuta ex argento facta.

[ [46] Bede, Eccl. Hist. lib. ii. cap. 16.

[ [47] Dr. Henry's Hist. vol. ii. lib. v. cap. 7.

[ [48] See the Northumberland Family-Book.

[ [49] Johan. Sarisburiensis, lib. i. c. 8. p. 34.