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

[ [1049] Bourne's Antiq. vol. ix. chap. 27

[ [1050] MSS. Harl. 2354 and 2391.

[ [1051] The midsummer pageants at Chester are fully described in the [Introduction].

[ [1052] Survey of London, pp. 84, 85.

[ [1053] Perhaps it should be image, and resembled those commonly used in other pageants.

[ [1054] Nat. Hist Oxford, p.343, and Blount's Ancient Tenures, p. 154.

[ [1055] Eccl. Memoirs, vol. iii. chap. 39, p. 51.

[ [1056] Ibid. p. 309.

[ [1057] Eccl. Memoirs, vol. iii. chap. 49, p. 377

[ [1058] Table Talk, 1689, article Pope.