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

[ [300] In his "Toxophilus, or the schole of shooting," written in 1544, first published in 1571, republished by Mr. James Bennet in 1761.

[ [301] "Geste of Robyn Hode." Garrick's Collect. K. vol. x.

[ [302] Prologue to Canterbury Tales.

[ [303] Lib. Compotis Garderobæ sub an. 4 Ed. II. page 53, is this entry, Pro duodecim flecchiis cum pennis de pavonæ emptis pro rege, de 12 den.; that is, For twelve arrows plumed with peacocks' feathers, bought for the king, twelve pence. MS. Cott. Lib. Nero, C. viii.

[ [304] Country Contentments, 1615, chap. viii. p. 107.

[ [305] Ibid.

[ [306] Ascham, p. 129, et infra.

[ [307] Country Contentments.

[ [308] Survey of Cornwall, by Richard Carew, Esq. 1602. B. i. p. 73.

[ [309] See [sec. x. p.57].