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

[ [684] "Playes confuted," by Stephen Gosson; no date, but written about 1580.

[ [685] St. Mark, chap. vi. ver. 22.

[ [686] Nero, D. iv.

[ [687] No. 1, A. xiv.

[ [688] No. 2253. fol. 45.

[ [689] No. 2, B. vii.

[ [690] No. 1527

[ [691] Odyssey, lib. iv. lin. 18. The original word is κυβις ητηρε, saltatores qui se in capita dejiciunt.

[ [692] "De queux le roi rya grantement." Roll of Expenses in the reign of king Edward II. in the possession of Thomas Astle, esq.

[ [693] From a MS. in the Remembrancer's Office, an. 13 Hen. VIII.