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

[ [160] Nichols's Progresses, vol. ii.

[ [161] No. 4431.

[ [162] Maitland's Hist. London, book i. chap. 6.

[ [163] Stephanides Descript. London.

[ [164] Stow's Survey of London, vol. i. p. 157.

[ [165] "Pills to Purge Melancholy," 1719, vol. iv. p. 42.

[ [166] Blount's Ancient Tenures.

[ [167] Or "vautrarius," which Blount derives from the French vaultre, a mongrel hound, and supposes the name to signify an inferior huntsman; and this opinion I have adopted.

[ [168] E c. An. 34 Edward I. No. 37. Richard Rockesley held the same land by the same tenure, in the second year of Edward II. Blount ut supra.

[ [169] Entitled "Art de Venerie le quel Maistre Guillame Twici venour le Roy dangleterre fist en son temps por aprandre Autres; or the Art of Hunting, which Mr. Wm. Twici, huntsman to the king of England, made for the instruction of others." See Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry, vol. ii. p. 221.