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

[ [909] By stat. 30 Geo. II.

[ [910] The first occurs in Chaucer; the second in the vocabulary called Orbis Sensualium Pictus, as translated by Hoole, chap. cxxxvi. In Latin it is called Oscillum, and thus described by an old author; Oscillum est genus ludi, &c. In English to this effect; Oscillum is a sort of game played with a rope depending from a beam, in which a boy or a girl being seated, is driven backwards and forwards. Speght's Glossary to Chaucer.

[ [911] Vol. viii. No. 496; and again No. 492 in the same volume.

[ [912] Eustatius ad Iliad. G.

[ [913] Harl. MS. 6391.

[ [914] Palamed. de Alea. lib. i. cap. 18.

[ [915] Isidorus Originum, lib. xviii. cap. 60.

[ [916] Lib. i.

[ [917] See the [Introduction].

[ [918] De Nug. Curialium, lib. i. cap. 5.