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

[ [80] The reader will find this subject particularly treated on, in the chapter that relates to minstrels and music, in the body of the work.

[ [81] Hentzner's Itinerary, published by lord Orford, at Strawberry-hill, pp. 88, 89.

[ [82] Hist. Angl. lib. xiii.

[ [83] De Rerum Invent, lib. v. cap. 2.

[ [84] Tatler, No. 134, dated Thursday, Feb. 16, 1709.

[ [85] See a pamphlet written by John Northbrooke. published in the reign of queen Elizabeth, without date.

[ [86] School of Abuse, published 1579.

[ [87] Gosson, I hope, was acquainted with the vulgar part of the audience only, or, which is more probable, spoke from report, and that exaggerated.

[ [88] Admonition to Parliament, by Tho. Cartwright, published A. D. 1572.

[ [89] Still, for stay. The Pope's Kingdom, book iv. translated from the Latin of Tho. Neogeorgus, by Barnabe Googe, and dedicated to queen Elizabeth, A. D. 1570.