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

[ [240] Knight of the Swan, Garrick's Collect. K. vol. x.

[ [241] Equos cursores. Malmsb. de Gest. Reg. Angl. lib. ii. cap. 6.

[ [242] I have followed the translation published by Mr. White, of Fleet-street, A. D. 1772. See Stow's Survey of London, and republished with additions by Strype. [The translation of Fitzstephen published by Mr. White, was made by the late Dr. Samuel Pegge.]

[ [243] "Syr Bevys of Hampton," black letter, without date, printed by Wm. Copland. Garrick's Collect. K. vol. ix.

[ [244] Bourne Antiq. Vulgares, chap. xxiv.

[ [245] Probably the elder Randel Holme of Chester, one of the city heralds. MS. Harl. 2150 fol. 235.

[ [246] The thirty-first of Henry VIII.

[ [247] That is Shrove Tuesday.

[ [248] Probably the younger Randel Holme.

[ [249] MS. Harl. 2125.