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

[ [140] Constitut. Cnut. Reg. de Forest, apud Spelm. Gloss, et Wilkins, Leg. Sax. p. 146.

[ [141] Leges Cnuti, apud Lambard, cap. 77.

[ [142] Ibid. cap. 15.

[ [143] Carta de Foresta, cap. 11.

[ [144] Faciat cornare, ibid. cap. 17.

[ [145] Spelman's Answer to the Apology for Archbishop Abbot.

[ [146] Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Numerous quotations might be made from other writers in addition to those above; but they are sufficient for my purpose.

[ [147] Stat. 13 Rich. II.

[ [148] An. 21 Hen. II. A. D. 1157. See Spelman's Answer to the Apology for Archbishop Abbot.

[ [149] P. Blensens. epist. lvi. p. 81