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

[ [200] Lidgate presented this poem to king Henry VI. when that monarch held his court at Bury. The presentation MS. is yet extant in the Harleian Library, No. 2278.

[ [201] Walton's Hist. of English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 221.

[ [202] Aira Accipitris.

[ [203] Trente fauconniers à cheval, chargez d'oiseaux. Froissart's Chron. vol. i. cap. 210.

[ [204] Ou en riviere. Ibid.

[ [205] Tous jours en riviere. Ibid. cap. 140.

[ [206] Garrick's Collect. of old Plays, K. vol. x.

[ [207] Canterbury Tales.

[ [208] Bury St. Edmund's, in Suffolk.

[ [209] That is, to the windward; I use the author's own words.