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

[ [260] Poem of Covetice, quoted by Warton. Hist. English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 316.

[ [261] John Northbrooke.

[ [262] Anatomy of Melancholy, part. ii. sec. 2, chap. 4, edit. 1660.

[ [263] Pills to purge Melancholy, fourth edit. 1719, vol. ii. p. 53.

[ [264] Ency. Brit, under Race.

[ [265] Ibid.

[ [266] Probably Matthew Thomas Baskervile, whose name appears at the end; it was written about the year 1690. MS. Harl. 4716.

[ [267] Dated Sept. 11, A.D. 1711. Spectator, vol. iii. No. 173.

[ [268] Olaii Worm. Lit. Run. p. 129. Barthol. p. 420. Pontoppidan's Hist. Norway, p. 248.

[ [269] Claudius, B. iv.