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

[ [500] Marche, part of the lists I presume, or portion of ground appropriated to the tournament.

[ [501] Feront clouer leurs armes, literally nail them; the clouage or nail money, as we shall see afterwards, was the perquisite of the heralds.

[ [502] "Mettra sa banier, au commencement dedits bastons et clouera la blason de ses armes, a lautre vout." The passage is by no means clear; I have therefore given the words of the original.

[ [503] A l'aschevier, chevaliers, &c.

[ [504] Hors chevaliers, &c.

[ [505] No. 14. E. iii.

[ [506] The minstrels of the barons are behind them in Mr. Strutt's quarto plate, as in the MS. illumination; on the present page, the minstrels are placed below the combatants, in order to accommodate the figures to the space presented by the octavo size.

[ [507] Harl. MS. 69.

[ [508] Coutel, literally a knife.

[ [509] Cotton MS. Nero D. vi. and Harl. MS. 69, ut supra