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

[ [150] Knyghton, apud Decem Script, p. 263.

[ [151] Stephanid. vit. S. Thom.

[ [152] Vide Spelman ut supra.

[ [153] Claudius. A. 2.

[ [154] Garrick's Collection of Old Plays, K. vol. ix.

[ [155] The following extracts prove king John to have been exceedingly partial to this kind of dogs. Rot. Pip. iv. Reg. Johan. A. D. 1203. Rog. constab. Cestriæ debet D marcas et X palfridos et X laissas Leporariorum, &c. that is, five hundred marks, ten horses, and ten leashes of greyhounds.—An. xi. Johan. 1210. Rog. de Mallvell redd. comp, de 1 palfrido velociter currente et 2 laissiüs Leporariorum, one swift running horse, and six greyhounds.

[ [156] Garrick's Collec. K. vol. x.

[ [157] 2. B. vii. [In the original drawing, and on Mr. Strutt's plate, the figures pursuing and pursued are in a line together: but for the purpose of including all the figures within the preceding page, the lady on horseback is placed above, instead of behind the female archer.]

[ [158] MS. Harl. 6395. Merry Passages and Jeasts, art. 345.

[ [159] Rowland Whyte to Sir Robert Sidney, dated September 12, A.D. 1600.