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

[ [250] A. D. 1665. and 5 Charles II.

[ [251] In his Survey of the Town of Stamford, first printed A. D. 1646. chap. 10.

[ [252] See p. [7. sec. vii].

[ [253] Bernado de Nictum pro uno cursorio hardo empto de eodem, xxv. marc. Compot. Garderoba. An. xi. Ed. III. MS. Cot. Nero, C. viii. fol. 219.

[ [254] Michali de la Were Scut. Regis Navarr. present domino Regi duos equos cursores ex parte dono Domini sui, de dono Regis. C. sol. Ibid.

[ [255] MS. Harl. 4690, written early in the fourteenth century.

[ [256] Peer or equal.

[ [257] A French word, signifying a large powerful horse.

[ [258] Steed, rabbit, nor camel.

[ [259] Lib. iv. fat. 3. Edit. 1599.