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

[ [829] Encyclopædia Britannica, in voce.

[ [830] Stow's Survey, p. 496.

[ [831] Ibid. pp. 85, 158.

[ [832] "Country Contentments," published in 1615.

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

[ [834] An. 17 Edw. IV. cap. 3; again 18 and 20 Hen. VIII. &c.; in both which acts this game is prohibited.

[ [835] Garrick's Collection, vol. i. 18.

[ [836] An. 17 Edw. IV. cap. 8; the prohibition extends also to closh and kayles.

[ [837] Dictionary, word kayle.

[ [838] See p. [243].