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

[ [440] "Terræ infixis sudibus scuta apponuntur—Quintanæ ludus scilicet equestris exerceretur—in equis lusitari solitum appeusis sudes in terram impactas scutis." Robertus Monach. Hist Hierosol. lib. v.

[ [441] Menestrier, Traité des Tournois, Joustes, &c. p. 264.

[ [442] Menestrier ut supra; Du Cange Gloss, in voce quintana; Pluvinel sur l'exercise de monter à cheval, part iii. p. 177.

[ [443] Menestrier, p. 112, et Pluvinel ut supra.

[ [444] 20. B. xi

[ [445] Knyghthode and Batayle, MS. Cott. Titus A. xxiii. fol. 6 and 7. This curious poem, written early in the fifteenth century, appears to be a translation of the former treatise, or rather a paraphrase upon it.

[ [446] Set up.

[ [447] Of man's height.

[ [448] A mace or club of wood.

[ [449] Hath not.