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

[ [849] Collect. of Old Ballads, pub. London, 1723.

[ [850] Philos. Transact. vol. xix. p. 591.

[ [851] For a full explanation of the manner of cock-fighting among the ancient Greeks and Romans, see a memoir upon that subject by the late Rev. Mr. Pegge, Archæologia, vol. iii. p. 132.

[ [852] Description of London; temp. Hen. II.

[ [853] Survey of London, p. 76.

[ [854] Bourne's Antiq. Vulgares by Brand, p. 233.

[ [855] Stow's Survey of London, p. 496.

[ [856] Mons. de la Boderie's Letters, vol. i. p. 56.

[ [857] MS. Harl. 6395, written in the reign of James I., and bearing this title: "Merry Passages and Jeasts."

[ [858] Rev. Mr. Pegge, in his memoir on cock-fighting, Archæol. vol. iii. p. 132.