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

[ [360] Survey of London, p. 78, 85.

[ [361] The margin says, "at Skinner's Well."

[ [362] There are now, says the author, no such men, meaning "the porters of the king's beam," that is, at the commencement of the seventeenth century.

[ [363] Survey of London, p. 85.

[ [364] I presume he means the mace.

[ [365] Hentzner's Itinerary first published A. D. 1598. Lord Orford's translation, Strawberry Hill edition, p. 36.

[ [366] Canterbury Tales.

[ [367] Prologues to the Canterbury Tales.

[ [368] 2 B. viii.

[ [369] Second fit, or part, Garrick's Collect. Old Plays, K. vol. x.