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

[ [744] Retrospection of Eighteen Hundred Years, vol. ii. p. 224.

[ [745] [In 1801.]

[ [746] In a volume of Miscellaneous Papers, Bibl. Harl. 5931.

[ [747] In the original French it is said,

"———et timberesses,

Qui moult savoient bien juer,

Qui ne finoient de ruer

Le timbre en haut, si recueilloient

Sus un doi conques enfailloient."

[ [748] No. 264.