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

[ [230] Stat. xi. Hen. VII.

[ [231] Stat. xi. Hen. VII.

[ [232] Expen. Hosp. Reg. Ed. III. MS. Cott. Nero, C. viii. p. 275

[ [233] Between this and the next line the author makes the following observation: "These ben hawkes of toure, and ben bothe illured to be called and reclaymed." Jewel for Gentrie. Lond. 1614.

[ [234] Stow's Survey of London.

[ [235] The sheldrake is a species of wild fowl.

[ [236] Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, book v. chap. 8. edit Lond. 1660.

[ [237] Harleian, MS. 2284.

[ [238] Jewel for Gentrie. Lond. 1614.

[ [239] Testament of Love, book ii.