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

[ [380] The river Thames.

[ [381] Sikerer, surer, safer; that is, neither the one nor the other should have any extraneous assistance, but each should depend entirely upon his own exertions to escape from the water.

[ [382] History of all the schools and colleges in and about London, printed A. D. 1615.

[ [383] In D'Urfey's Collection of Songs, 1719, vol. iii. p. 4.

[ [384] Oläi. Worm. Lit. Run. p. 129.

[ [385] Ency. Brit. art. Skating.

[ [386] Cæsar Bell. Gall. lib. v. cap. 12.

[ [387] Bartholin, p. 420.

[ [388] Will. Malms. Mat. West. in the reign of Edgar.

[ [389] Fitzstephen's Description of London. Stow's Survey.