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

[ [1139] Pollux. lib. ix. cap. 7.

[ [1140] No. 20. D. iv.

[ [1141] Harl. MS. 2391.

[ [1142] Harl. MS. 2125.

[ [1143] Vol. iii. No. 246.

[ [1144] Vol. iv. No. 278.

INDEX.

• A B C of Aristotle, [398].
• Abbot of Misrule, [339], [340].
• Abbots, [8], [9].
• See Clergy.
• Abingdon, [353].
• Abington Abbey, [26].
• Abraham, [167].
• Ace of Roses, [320].
• Aery of Hawks, [28].
• Ælfric, Earl, [26].
• Æman, [174].
• Æthan, [174].
• Ætheric, Bishop, [xxi].
• Agapæ, [364].
• Agesilaus, [380].
• Agnes of Poictou, [192].
• Alauntes, [19].
• Albans, St., [17], [150], [255].
• Alcibiades, [38].
• Alcinous, [91].
• Alea, [305].
• Ales (Church and Whitsun), [xxxiv], [367].
• Alexander the Great, [xxii], [li].
• Alfred, [xx].
• All-hallows, [391].
• Alleys (Bowling), [lxiii], [268].
• Andromache (a rural), [lxvi].
• Animals—baiting, teaching, imitating, &c., [xlix], [liii], [175], [239], [242], [253], [256], [388].
• Anjou, Duke of, [200].
• Anlaff, a Dane, [183].
• Anne, [168], [211], [216], [230], [236], [242], [245], [247], [259].
• —— Lady, daughter of Duke of Norfolk, [148].
• Apes, [22], [204], [239], [241], [242], [243], [257].
• Apples, diving for, [391], [396].
• Arabians, [308], [325].
• Archbishops, [9].
• See Clergy.
• Archery, [lxii], [48]
• bow known to Saxons and Danes, ibid
• archery of the Normans, [50]
• by ladies, ibid
• forms of Saxon bows, ibid
• use and practice of the cross-bow, [53]
• bows and arrows to be kept, [54], [56]
• decay of archery, [55]
• prices for bows, [58]
• equipment of an archer, [59]
• directions for archery, [61]
• marks for shooting at, [62], [63]
• feats in archery, [64]
• ancient bowmen's superiority, [66]
• a good archer called Arthur, [68]
• prizes for archery, &c. [69], [73], [115].
• Arcubalistarians, [73].
• Arden of Feversham, [307].
• Argument and testimony compared, [51].
• Arion and Harry Goldingham, [xlviii].
• Aristotle, A B C of, [398].
• Ark, Noah's, [166].
• Arms, list of under Elizabeth, [58]
• at tournaments, [134], [135], [137].
• Arragon, [161], [327].
• Arrows, [59], [63], [70].
• See Archery.
• Arsnic, to save giants, [xliv].
• Art of Memory, [335].
• Arthur, round table of, [140].
• —— a good archer why called, [68].
• —— Prince of Wales, [161], [327].
• Artillery, list of, under Elizabeth, [58].
• —— gardens, [xxxiv].
• Arundell, Robert, a good slinger, [67].
• Asaph, [174].
• Ascanius, [126].
• Asia and Asiatics, [71] [199], [281], [306], [308], [325].
• Asses, Ass-racing, [22], [47], [256], [346].
• Astley (Amphitheatre), [90], [230], [246], [247], [265].
• Athelstan, [18], [31], [40].
• Attitudes for archery, [61].
• Augustus, [384].
• Austria, Duke of, [179].
• Automaton chess-player, [201].
• Axes, combats with, [149].
• See Justs.
• Baboon, [259].
• Babylon, [308].
• Backgammon, [xxi], [319].
• Badger, [18], [22], [280].
• Bagpipes, [194], [195].
• Baiting animals with dogs, [lii], [liii], [276], [280].
• Balancing, [231], [232], [233], [234], [242].
• Balistarii, [52], [73].
• Ball, games with, [91] to [110], [173], [195], [196], [204], [231], [300].
• —— of little dogs, [167].
• Ballad-singers, [287].
• See Joculators.
• Balloon-ball, [96].
• Ban-dogs, [258].
• Bandy-ball, [101], [102].
• Banners, [134], [135], [136].
• Baptism of Bells, [292].
• Bar, throwing of, [75], [76], [369].
• Baraton, Martin, [196].
• Barbary horses, [42].
• Barber, a bagpiper, [194], [195].
• Barbers, [287], [337].
• Bards, [170].
• See Minstrels.
• Barge, Lord Mayor's, [307].
• Barley-brake, [382].
• Barlo, Marquis of, [67].
• Barnard Peres, [337].
• Barnet, [255].
• Base, or Prisoners' Bars, [78], [381].
• Bason-ringing, [294].
• Basset, [335].
• Bastard dogs, [19].
• —— swords, [xxix].
• Baste the Bear, [387].
• Bastile, [319].
• Bat for hurling, &c., [91].
• See Ball.
• Bath, [370].
• —— , Lord, [210].
• Batting (Bird), [38].
• Battle, tournaments like, [131], [132].
• Bayeaux tapestry, [4].
• Bean, King of the, [343], [400].
• Bears, bear-baiting, bear-garden, &c., [xlviii], [18], [176], [204], [211], [227], [239], [256], [257], [258], [259], [262], [264].
• —— game of "Baste the Bear," [387].
• Beast, a game at cards, [335].
• Beasts for hunting, [17], [22].
• —— of chase, [17], [22].
• Beasts of flight, [18].
• Becket, Thomas à, [11].
• Bedford-square archery, [66].
• Beef-steak, dressing of, [236].
• Beelzebub, [153], [201].
• Bell, Adam, [65], [185].
• Bell Savage, shows at the, [356].
• Bells for ringing, hawk-bells, prize-bells, &c., [291], [32], [39], [42], [46], [223], [255].
• —— (Dumb), [77].
• Benjamin Street, [298].
• Benjamites, slingers, [71].
• Beoric, king's falconer, [27].
• Berdic, king's joculator, [195], [205].
• Bermondsey, Southwark, [35], [377].
• Berners, Juliana, [17].
• —— , Lord, [17].
• Bessy (the), [348].
• Beverley, [189], [195], [346].
• Bevis of Southampton, [185].
• Bewits, or hawk's bells, [32].
• Bible-plays. See Plays.
• Billiards, [270], [299].
• Binding Tuesday, [350].
• Birds, tutoring, catching, imitating, &c., [28], [38], [39], [248], [255], [390].
• See Hawking, Partridge, &c.
• Bishop of Fools, [345].
• —— (Boy), [346].
• Bishops, [8], [9], [11].
• See Clergy.
• Bitterns, [37].
• Blackfriars bridge, [90].
• Bladder (blown), foot-ball, [101].
• Blessing of Bells, [292].
• Blie, [133].
• Blind-man's-buff, [392], [393].
• Blois, Charles, Earl of, [52].
• Blondel, a minstrel, [179].
• Blow Point, [403].
• Boar-hunting, fighting, &c., [5], [17], [23], [252], [256].
• Boats, [88], [146].
• Bob-cherry, [391].
• Bodmin, [xxxvii].
• Bone Ace, [335].
• Bonfires, [360], [372].
• Boniface, or Winifred, Archbishop of Mons, [25].
• Bonner, Bishop, [157].
• Borough, Sir Ed., [68].
• Boss-out, or Boss and Span, [384].
• Boteler, John de, [194].
• Bourbon, Duke of, [93].
• Bow and Arrows, [lxii], [48], [58], [63], [73], [379].
• Bowl (Wassail), [363].
• Bowling, [lxii], [lxiii], [266], [270].
• Box (Dice), [306].
• Boxley, Kent, [165].
• Boy Bishop, [346].
• Boys, [379] to [400].
• Braintree fair, [287].
• Brakely, [133].
• Brandenborow, Marquis of, [94].
• Bread, [23].
• Breakfast (Royal), [356].
• Breeches formerly worn by ladies, [14].
• Breslaw, juggler, [249], [255].
• Bretail, Robert de, [128].
• Bridal (Country), [119].
• British Museum, [79], [99].
• Brittany, [291].
• Broad-street, [68].
• Brunanburgh, victory at, [3].
• Bubble the justice, [274].
• Bucket of water, tilting at, [120].
• Buckingham, [19].
• Buckler-play, [262].
• Bucks. See Deer.
• Buffoons. See Joculators.
• Buling Hans, a mountebank, [236].
• Bull-baiting and Bull-running, [xliv], [liii], [liv], [256], [257], [259], [276], [277].
• —— dogs, [19], [257], [259].
• —— John, game called, [275].
• Bullen, Anne, [374].
• Bulrushes, [86].
• Bumble-puppy, [274], [275].
• Burford, Ox., [46], [362].
• Burgundy, old Duke of, [93].
• Burlesque Music, [293].
• Burlettas, [290].
• Bury St. Edmund's, [8], [14], [27], [29].
• Butchers' hounds, [20].
• Butt (Water), tilting at, [120].
• Butterfly and boy, [389].
• Butts, archery, [53], [58], [62], [64], [65].
• Byrhtric, a Saxon, [26].
• Caedmon, [177].
• Caiaphas, [153].
• Cakes, tansy, [349].
• Calculation, methods of, [313].
• Caledonians, [xix].
• Calf (Golden), [296].
• Calves-head feast, [42].
• Cambuc, [101].
• Camp-ball, [101].
• Candles, play about lighting, [395].
• Cane Game, [128].
• Canute, [xxi], [4], [10], [309].
• Caparison for a hawk, [32].
• Capet, Hugh, [40].
• Car, Robert, Earl of Somerset, [229].
• Cards, [xxxii], [xxxiii], [xxxix], [323] to [336].
• —— , Houses of, [397].
• Carpet-working, [lxvi].
• Carreau, French game called, [266].
• Cast of Hawks, [36].
• Castanets, [223].
• Casting the bar, [75].
• Cat, pole-cat, wild-cat, [18], [22], [109].
• Cat after mouse, [381].
• Catabanque, [185].
• Catherine of Portugal, [69], [335].
• —— of Arragon, [161], [327].
• Cauldron, Iron, a play with, [400].
• Ceres, [364].
• Chabloun, Earl of, [130].
• Chaffinches, [li].
• Chaffnets, [38].
• Chaldea, [308].
• Chalezun, castle of, [52].
• Challenger to justs and tournaments, [xxix], [148], [263].
• Chan (Great), [199].
• Changes, ringing of, [291].
• Charing-cross, a mews, [37], [242].
• Charlemagne, [175].
• Charles I., [lvii], [56], [69], [309].
• —— II., [xliv], [46], [59], [68], [220], [235].
• —— V. of France, [324].
• —— VI. of France, [76], [217], [252], [323], [324].
• —— VII. of France, [311].
• Charles the Bald, [132].
• Charms for hawks, [34].
• Chartley-hall, [297].
• Chase, beasts of, [17].
• Chases. See Forests.
• Cheapside pageants, [xli].
• Cheats, [241].
• See Joculators.
• Cheek-music, [201].
• Chelsea, [89].
• Cherry (Bob), [391].
• Cheshire, [79], [370].
• Chess, [xxi], [lxv], [300] to [310].
• Chester, [41], [88], [95], [101], [184], [277].
• Cheveretter, Janino de, [194], [203].
• Childermas, [346], [347].
• Childrens' plays, [379] to [400].
• Chiltre (The), [15].
• Chimney-sweepers, [358].
• China, [281], [390].
• Chivalry, [xxvii].
• Christmas, [118], [156], [222], [251], [252], [285], [327], [339] to [349], [370].
• Chuck-farthing, [386].
• Churches—plays, abuses, festivals, ales, in, [25], [150], [157], [345], [346], [348], [365], [367].
• Churn, or corn, supper, [364].
• Circus in St. George's-fields, [230], [245], [246].
• Clarencieux, king at arms, [135].
• Cleavers (marrow-bones and), [294].
• Clench of Barnet, [li], [255].
• Cleremont, Earl of, [129].
• Clergy, [xxi], [liv], [lx], [8], [9], [11], [21], [24], [31], [37], [150], [152], [155], [156], [157], [183], [190], [192], [241], [256], [306], [344].
• Clerkenwell, [81], [263], [289], [298].
• —— , Marquis of, [67].
• Cleveland, Duchess of, [221].
• Closh, game of, [271].
• Cloudesle, William, an archer, [95].
• Clown, [204].
• Club-ball, [104], [105].
• Clubs, suit of, [324].
• Clym of the Clough, [65], [185].
• Coaches, hackney—a horse and his keeper parading in one, [245].
• Coat and Badge, rowing for the, [89].
• Coblers, [22].
• Cock—cock-fighting, cock-throwing, &c., [xxxiv], [liii], [248], [349], [370], [394].
• Cockchafers, &c. spinning of, [388], [389].
• Cock-pit, [281].
• Cockneys, [343].
• Coleshill Heath, Warwickshire, [47].
• Colet, Dean, [346].
• Coll, the tregetour, [202].
• Colts, [22].
• Columbines, king of, [327], [328], [329], [330].
• Combats (ordeal), lists for, [138].
• Concerts, [287].
• Conjurer, the dumb, [li].
• Constantine of Wales, [3], [18].
• Constantinople, [131].
• Cooks, [22].
• Coots, [32].
• Corcyra, [91].
• Corineus, giant, [xlii].
• Corners, Four, [273].
• Cornhill, [118], [351].
• Cornish and Cornwall, [62], [63], [67], [80], [98], [158], [363], [367], [382].
• Corpus Christi, mystery called, [151].
• Costly Colours, [335].
• Cotswold, game of, [xxxvi].
• Covent Garden theatre, [xxx], [l].
• Coventry Play (the), [xlviii], [xlix], [151].
• Counters, [327].
• Country Bridal, [119].
• —— Plays, [159].
• See Plays.
• Courcy, Earl of Ulster, [264].
• Court, or Coat, Cards, [332].
• —— Plays, [159].
• See Plays.
• Cow and Cow-hide, [250], [358].
• Cowdry, in Suss., [14].
• Crambo, [398].
• Cranes, [25], [37].
• Crawl, a showman, [166], [247].
• Creag, [403].
• Cressets, [xlvi], [247], [373].
• Cressy, battle of, [52].
• Cribbage, [335].
• Cricket, [106].
• Crimp, [336].
• Criol, Bertram de, [16].
• Cross-bow, [51].
• See Archery.
• —— Purposes, [403].
• Cross-and-Pile, [337].
• Crotonians, [242].
• Crowds, violins, [xxxiv].
• Crown coffee-house, [335].
• Croyland, Abbot of, [291], [292].
• Cruelty to animals, [388], [389].
• Cuckolds, [22].
• Cuckows, [25].
• Cudgel players, [369].
• Cumberland sailing society, [90].
• Cups (prize), [20], [90].
• Cure of Hawks, [33].
• Curlews, [37].
• Curs, [20].
• See Dogs.
• Cushion dance, [297].
• —— working, [lxiv].
• Cut-work by ladies, [lxvi].
• Cuthred, King of W. Saxons, [363].
• Dances, Dancers, Dancing Animals, and Rope-dancing, [xlvii], [lxv], [196], [207] to [228], [239] to [259], [295], [342], [349], [357].
• Danes, [xx], [lix], [26], [48], [49], [183], [257], [306], [350].
• Darts, [75], [76].
• Datchet-mead races, [46].
• David, [71], [174], [293].
• D'Eu, Count, [93].
• Dee river, [88].
• Deer, [xxv], [9], [17], [18], [20], [22], [54].
• Defence, science of, [262].
• Deformity curiously imitated, [235].
• Delphos Bells, [51].
• Demihags, [58].
• Derbyshire, [79], [279], [280].
• Deserter acted, [249].
• Devil and Devils, [153], [201], [365].
• —— among the Taylors, [385].
• Devil's dance, [342].
• Devonshire, [80], [382].
• —— Duke of, [279].
• Dice, [xxxii], [xxxiii], [lix], [305], [306].
• Diomedes, [308].
• Discus, [74].
• Disquirements, or Mummings, [251].
• Dislocation curiously imitated, [235].
• Diving, [85].
• —— apple diving, [391].
• Dobney's, near Islington, [246].
• Dogget's Coat and Badge, [89].
• Dogs, [2], [19], [20], [22], [43], [167], [204], [239], [243], [246], [253], [257], [258], [259], [276], [284].
• —— a ball of little dogs, [167].
• Domino, [322].
• Dort in Holland, [33].
• Double wicket, [106].
• Dover, Rob., [xxxvi].
• Doves, [37].
• Dragon (Snap), [397].
• Dragons, [xl], [223], [224], [342], [360], [362], [363], [374].
• Dramas. See Plays.
• Draughts, [316].
• Draw-bridge on London-bridge, [xlii].
• Drawing Dun out of the Mire, [403].
• Dresses, hunting, [15].
• —— equipment for an archer, [59].
• —— Minstrels', [189].
• —— caparison of a hawk, [32].
• Drury-lane, [282].
• Duck-hunting, [284].
• —— and Owl, [285].
• Ducks and Drakes, [387].
• Duke, appropriate hawks of a, [37].
• —— of Shoreditch, [67], [68].
• Dumb Bells, [77].
• Dun (drawing out of the Mire), [403].
• Dunghill dogs, [20].
• Dunstable, [150].
• Dunstan, St. [xx], [171].
• Dutch, [xxxix], [220], [233], [234], [236], [270], [273].
• Duzedeys, Perrot, [194].
• Eagles, [34], [37].
• Earls—their hawk, and their tax for tournaments, [37], [133].
• Easter, [41], [94], [116], [349], [367].
• Eating fire and stones, [236].
• —— hasty-pudding, [367].
• Ecclesiastics. See Clergy.
• Edelswitha, [40].
• Eden, Sir Fred, [144].
• Edgar, [4], [18], [21], [88], [171], [365].
• Edmund, King of East Angles, [27], [49].
• Education of Princes, James I. on, [xxxi].
• Edward the Confessor, [26], [34].
• —— I., [7], [16], [52], [130], [140], [190], [194], [260], [325], [403].
• —— II., [lx], [17], [183], [188], [191], [203], [210], [227], [337].
• —— III., [lx], [lxi], [19], [28], [34], [43], [55], [75], [100], [102], [104], [140], [159], [189], [193], [194], [195], [222], [235], [281], [344].
• —— IV., [lxi], [55], [58], [139], [148], [184], [189], [194], [274], [325], [403].
• —— VI., [xliii], [69], [218], [328], [340], [354], [362].
• Edwin King of Northumberland, [xxxvii].
• Egerton, Sir P, [43].
• Egg dance, [225].
• Eggs of hawks, [35].
• Elizabeth, [xlii], [xlvi], [lvi], [14], [44], [45], [58], [67], [77], [95], [99], [119], [121], [147], [159], [162], [185], [203], [205], [224], [252], [257], [296], [374], [378].
• —— , daughter of Ed. I. [194].
• Elk, [18].
• Eltham, Hants, [375].
• Elverton, Derb., [367].
• Elvetham, Hants, [95].
• Elysian Fields, [377].
• Emanuel Comminus, [131].
• Emperors, appropriate hawks of, [37]
• meanness of one, [192].
• Enchanters, [199], [200].
• Enclosures, [20], [21], [50], [56].
• Eneas, [126].
• Engravings in the work, notice of, [lxvi].
• Entertainments, royal and noble, [xxxviii], [xliv].
• E. O. tables, [307].
• Epiphany, [344].
• Ervalton of Spain, [265].
• Esau, [50].
• Esquires and Esquireship, [xxv], [37], [115], [135], [137].
• Essex, [19], [79], [108], [349].
• Ethelbald, King of Mercia, [362].
• Ethelbert, King of Kent, [25].
• Ethelred the unready, [350].
• Eton Montem, [347].
• Eu, Count d', [93].
• Eubœa, [305], [308].
• Even or Odd, [386].
• Evil Merodac, [308].
• Eurydice, [377].
• Exorcism of bells, [292].
• Fabulators, [180].
• See Joculators.
• Fair sex, [143].
• See Ladies.
• Fairs, [366], [369].
• Falcon, [37].
• See Hawking.
• Falconer, [24], [28].
• Fantoccini, [167].
• Feathers, [59], [60], [234].
• Fenchurch-street, [353].
• Ferrers, George, [340].
• Ferrets, [22].
• Festival of Fools, [344], [345].
• Fiddle without strings, music with, [255].
• Fiddlers, [186].
• See Minstrels.
• Figgum, [403].
• Fighting of cocks. See Cock-fighting.
• Fingers, games with, [403].
• Fireworks, [374].
• Fishing and Fowling, [38].
• Fives, [95].
• Flight, beasts of sweet and of stinking, [18].
• Flora, [351], [357].
• Florentines, [xlii].
• Flower de luce, a beast called, [xliii], [xlv].
• Flute, imitation of, [255].
• Foix, Earl of, [7], [194], [264].
• Fol, Rob. le, [194].
• Fool, or Fools, [152], [153], [154], [236].
• Fool's dance, [221], [222].
• —— bolt, [55].
• —— festival, [345].
• —— plough, [348].
• Foot, standing on one, [383]
• contest with the feet, [121].
• —— ball, [100], [369].
• —— racing, [77], [101].
• Forcer, Francis, musician, [290].
• Forests (Royal), [xxi], [6], [9], [17], [19], [22], [34], [54], [133].
• Fote in Bosom, [47].
• Four Corners, [273].
• —— Kings, [325].
• Fowling and Fishing, [38].
• Fox, [5], [17], [18], [22], [23], [381].
• —— and Geese, [318].
• France and French, [28], [92], [94], [131], [132], [140], [179], [191], [257], [266], [270], [299], [309], [316], [317], [319], [323], [324].
• Frederic Barbarossa, [25].
• Freize jerkin, [29].
• French Draughts, [316].
• Friar Tuck, [354].
• Friars, [22].
• See Clergy.
• Frog in the middle, the, [393].
• Frying-pan music, [294].
• Fulco Guarine, [309].
• Fulimart, [18].
• Fulke, Dr. [316].
• Game—names of beasts of sport, [17], [31], [50].
• —— cocks, [281].
• See Cock-fighting.
• —— laws, [xxi], [4], [6], [8], [20], [34], [35].
• —— of Goose, [336].
• —— The solitary Game, [319].
• Gaming, [xxi], [lix] to [lxii], [44], [45], [307], [327], [328].
• Gardens, Artillery, [xxxiv].
• —— Dorset Garden, [xxxiv].
• Gardens, Marybone, [290].
• —— Northumberland public, [lxiii].
• —— Paris Garden, [lvi], [256], [257].
• —— Ranelagh, [289], [377].
• —— Spring, or Vauxhall, [288].
• Garter, Order of, [141].
• Gascoygne, Thomas, poet, [xlvii], [252], [378].
• Gaston, Earl of Foix, [7], [194], [264].
• Gaunt, John of, [132], [191], [279].
• Geese, [22], [37], [349].
• Genoese, [52], [62].
• Geoffry, Lord of Previlli, [132].
• George I., [46].
• —— II., [376].
• —— III., [374].
• Germans, [20], [131], [132], [141], [143], [214], [306], [325], [336].
• Geofrey, Abbot of St. Albans, [150].
• Giants (pageant), [xl], [xli], [xlii], [xliii], [147], [362].
• Gladiators, [260].
• Gleek, [334].
• Gleemen, [171], [173], [183], [213], [359].
• See Joculators.
• Globe Tavern, near Hungerford-market, [168].
• Gloves, hawks, [33].
• Gloucester, Thomas, Duke of, [138].
• Goats, [22], [253].
• Godefroy, Earl of Bologne, [xli].
• Goff, game of, [101], [102], [103].
• Gog-magog, [xlii].
• Golden Calf, [296].
• Goldfinches, [38].
• Goldingham, Harry and Arion, [xlviii].
• Goliah, [71].
• Goose, game of, [336].
• —— (Fox and), [318].
• Gordon, Will, [158].
• Goshawks. See Hawking.
• Grace, time of, in hunting, [20], [23].
• Gray, George, fencer, [263].
• Great Chan, performance by, [199].
• Greeks, [74], [84], [87], [89], [281], [303], [305], [308], [313], [314], [325], [338], [380], [383], [385], [386], [387], [390], [392], [393], [398], [400], [403].
• Green, Jack in the, [358].
• —— man, [294], [375], [377], [378].
• —— Park, [376].
• Greens (Bowling), [lxiii], [268].
• Greenwich, [xxix], [156], [161], [162], [257], [355], [374].
• Gregory, Pope, [365].
• Groat (Shove), [301].
• Gresco, [333].
• Grey, or Badger, [18], [280].
• —— waters of, [15]
• —— (Henry de), of Codnor, [16].
• —— hounds, [7], [14], [16], [19], [20], [21], [22], [280].
• Gridiron music, [294].
• Grief, how counteracted, [lii].
• Gringonneur, Jacquemin, [323].
• Grinning-match, [371].
• Grooms of tutored greyhounds, [21].
• Guards, officers of, [356].
• Guarine, Fulco, [309].
• Guary miracle (the), [158].
• Guilford, [159].
• Gums, [31], [379].
• Gyfford, John, [17].
• Hag-butts, [58].
• Hags (Demi), [58].
• Half-bowl, [274].
• Halgaver Moor, Cornw., [xxxvii].
• Haliday, Walter, [184].
• Hall, Jacob, rope-dancer, [220].
• Hammer-throwing, [xxxii], [75].
• Hammersmith, [237].
• Hampshire, [350].
• Hampstead, [259].
• Hand-ball, [91], [95], [292], [349].
• —— guns, [54], [57].
• See Bow.
• —— in Hand, [lxi].
• Handel, [289], [290].
• Hands—persons equally right and left handed, [71].
• Handy-dandy, [397].
• Hart, [17], [18].
• See Deer.
• Harvest-home, [363].
• Hastings, [175].
• Hasty-pudding, eating, [372].
• Hatfield, [195].
• —— House, [257].
• Hawking, [xxxi], [xxxiii]
• travelling with hawks, &c., [4], [6], [7], [8], [11]
• how hawking conducted for ladies, [11]
• hawks paid in tribute, [16]
• early treatise on hawking, &c., [17], [24]
• value of hawks, [24], [25]
• hawks, ensigns of nobility, [24]
• origin of hawking, [25]
• hawks and hounds taken to church, [25]
• training hawks essential to the education of a gentleman, [25]
• romantic story about hawking, [26]
• among Saxons, [29]
• decline of hawking, [31]
• method of hawking, [31]
• caparison of hawks, [32]
• their value, [34], [36]
• early treatises on hawking, [33]
• different species of hawks, [36], [37]
• law against having any but foreign ones, [35]
• terms used in hawking, [37].
• Hay, or Raye, dance, [297].
• Haye, a fence-work of netting, [20].
• Haymarket Theatre, [l], [221].
• Hazel wands, [62].
• Head or Tail, [337].
• Health-drinkers, [lviii], [lxiii].
• —— , public, bonfires for, [372].
• Helmets, [134], [139], [140], [264].
• Henchmen, [362].
• Hen (threshing the fat), [348].
• Henry I., [20], [187], [195].
• —— II., [9], [10], [11], [15], [40], [76], [132], [192], [256], [309].
• —— III., [lx], [9], [72], [81], [105], [117], [140].
• —— IV., [7], [17], [151].
• —— V., [17], [137], [202].
• —— VI., [11], [81].
• —— VII., [xxviii], [xlvi], [lx], [11], [81], [35], [54], [58], [68], [93], [148], [186], [195], [327], [352], [357], [372].
• —— VIII., [xxx], [xli], [xliii], [8], [32], [37], [56], [67], [68], [75], [94], [160], [161], [205], [251], [252], [254], [262], [269], [272], [286], [287], [295], [328], [347], [354], [356], [362].
• —— I. Emperor, [132].
• —— III. —— [192].
• —— II. of France, [129].
• —— son of James I., [103], [298], [385].
• Heralds and Heraldry, [17], [135], [138], [139].
• Herbert, Sir W. [307].
• Hercules, [98].
• Hermits, [22].
• Herodias, [208], [209].
• Herons, [34], [37].
• Hertford, [219].
• —— Earl of, [375].
• Hertfordshire, [15], [274].
• Heywood, Master of St. Paul's School, [220].
• Hide and Seek, [381], [400].
• Higgins, a posture-master, [236].
• High Game, [335].
• Hinguar, [27].
• Hippas, [84].
• Hitchin, Herts, [22].
• Hobby-horses, [xliv], [224], [254], [341], [342].
• Hock Tuesday and Hocking, [162], [349], [350].
• Hockley in the Hole, [li], [259], [263].
• Hocus Pocus, [206].
• Hog, learned, [248].
• Hoglard, John de, [195].
• Holland, John, Earl of, [194].
• Holy Land, [128].
• Home (Harvest), [363].
• Hoodman-blind, [392], [393].
• Hoods for hawks, [32].
• Hoops, leaping through, &c., [229], [383].
• Hopping, [225], [366], [382], [383].
• Horn-blowing, [xxxii], [12], [19], [30], [172].
• Horse-collar, grinning through, [371].
• —— racing and Horses
• tribute in horses, &c., [16]
• horses trained to conceal sportsmen, [38]
• racing in Smithfield, [40]
• seasons for racing, [41]
• Chester races, [41]
• Barbary horses, [42]
• value of racers, [43]
• racers of romance, [44]
• racing, a liberal pastime, [44]
• breed of horses attended to, [44]
• royal patrons of racing, [45]
• Hyde Park races, [46], [47]
• Stamford races, [43]
• tricks and performances by horses, [242] to [246]
• horses baited with dogs, &c., [243], [357], [380].
• —— (Stalking), [38].
• Hospitality on saints' days, &c., [373].
• Hot-cockles, [392], [393].
• Hounds, [7], [11], [12], [19], [20], [21], [25].
• See Greyhounds.
• Houses (card), [397].
• Hubba, [27].
• Huffe-cap, [368].
• Hug, Cornish, [80].
• Hugh Capet, [40].
• Hughes's Royal Circus, [246].
• Hugo Petroleonis, [10].
• Hungary, King of, [28].
• Hungerford, Sir Ed., [69].
• Hunting, [xxv], [xxxi], [xxxiii]
• more ancient than hawking, [1]
• among the Britons, [2]
• the Saxons, Danes, and Normans, [3], [4], [5], [6]
• hunting swine and the wild-boar, [5]
• how conducted for ladies, [11]
• hunting dresses, [14], [15]
• hunting privileges of Londoners, [15]
• beasts of sport, [17]
• early treatises on hunting, [17]
• different modes of hunting, [20]
• in enclosures, [20]
• hunting terms, [22].
• —— (Duck), [284], [285].
• —— (Squirrel), [285].
• —— "Hunt the Fox," [381].
• —— "Hunt the Squirrel," [297].
• —— "Hunt the Slipper," [387].
• Hurling, [98].
• Husbands, [22].
• Hustle (Pitch and), [276].
• Hyde Park, [46], [88].
• Ice sliding, [86], [382], [384].
• Idethun, [174].
• Illuminations, [373].
• Imitations of animals, [249] to [256].
• Infection, bonfires against, [372], [373].
• Iniquity, a dramatic character, [153].
• Innocents' day, [346], [347].
• Installation, mock, at schools, [396].
• Interludes, [156].
• See Plays.
• Ireland, a vaulter, [230].
• Isabel of Bavaria, [217], [252], [310].
• Ishmael in the desert, [50].
• Islington, [67].
• Italy and Italians, [lii], [112], [120], [133], [141], [211].
• Jack in the Green, [358].
• —— of the Clock-house, [164].
• —— Pudding, [375].
• James I., [xxxi], [lvi], [7], [36], [46], [56], [201], [229], [254], [282], [298], [304], [307], [375].
• —— II., [167], [220], [236], [286].
• Janglers, [181], [192].
• See Minstrels.
• Japers, [181].
• See Minstrels.
• Jerkin (Frieze), [29].
• Jermin, Sir T., [29], [282].
• Jervis (Justice), [301].
• Jesses, a hawk's, [32].
• Jestors, Jestours, [180].
• See Minstrels.
• Jewin-street, [282].
• Jews, [94], [296], [364].
• Jigs, [297].
• Jingling-match, [370].
• Joculators, [197]
• their performances ascribed to magic, [198]
• Asiatic jugglers, [199]
• their tricks accounted for, [201]
• Rykell, a tregetour, [202]
• privileges of king's jugglers, [205]
• disrepute of modern jugglers, [205]
• dancing, tumbling, and balancing by joculators, [205], [208]
• Herodias tumbling, [208], [209]
• various modes of dancing and tumbling, [211]
• representations of tumbling, [211], [212]
• gleemens' dances, [213]
• sword-dancing, rope-dancing, [214] to [221]
• Morris-dance, [223]
• the posture-master, [235]
• mountebanks, [236]
• balancing, [231]
• the tinker, [237]
• animals trained for baiting, &c. by joculators, [239] to [259]
• sword-play, [259], [293].
• See Minstrels.
• John Bull, game called, [275].
• —— (King), [264], [278], [309].
• —— I. of Castile, [324].
• —— of Gaunt, [141], [279].
• —— de Holland, [141].
• —— (St.), [12], [16], [34], [43], [209].
• Judges looking big as lions, [xli].
• Jugglers, [181], [182], [185], [193], [199].
• See Minstrels, Joculators.
• Justice Jervis, [301].
• Justinian, [116].
• Justs, [xxi], [xxvii], [xxviii]
• challenges to, &c. [111], [148], [263]
• difference from tournaments, [125]
• law for, [133]
• justs represented, [142]
• peculiarly in honour of the ladies
• the lance of the ladies, [143]
• great splendour of justs, &c., [143], [146], [355].
• Kayles, [270].
• Kenilworth, [xlii], [xlvi], [19], [20], [117], [140], [162], [211], [252].
• Kent, [15], [25].
• Kenulph, King of the Mercians, [26].
• Kern-baby, or Corn-baby, [364].
• Keygwyn, John, [158].
• Kidlington, Oxon. [358].
• King, his hawks, [37].
• —— birth-day, [376].
• —— deer. See Deer.
• —— duty to God, by James I., [xxxi].
• —— of the bean, [343], [400].
• —— Cockneys, [343].
• —— jugglers, [205].
• —— minstrels, [185], [189], [190], [194].
• —— and Queen, game of, [60].
• Kings, ancient splendour of, [xxvii], [88].
• —— at arms, [135].
• Kissing-dance, [297].
• Kite-flying, [390].
• Kittle-pins, [272].
• Knave of pinks, [328].
• —— out of doors, [35].
• Knevyt, Anthony, [57].
• Knights and Knighthood, [xxii], [xxiv], [37], [120], [125], [133], [135], [137], [139], [140], [141], [143].
• Knives, and knives and balls, and knives of jugglers, [137], [173], [203], [231], [294].
• Knowsley, Thomas, cryer, [277].
• Kolson, a northern hero, [xix], [88].
• Lace-making, by ladies, [lxv].
• Ladder-dance, [226].
• Ladies, [xxvii], [xxxv], [liv], [lxiv] to [lxvi], [11], [13], [14], [22], [29], [30], [31], [37], [50], [91], [97], [104], [105], [138], [139], [143], [148], [257], [263], [287], [366].
• See also Women.
• Ladies' puppies, [26].
• Lady of the Lamb, [358].
• Lamb, Lady of the, [358].
• Lambeth, [350].
• Lamps (Glass), [373].
• Lance of the Ladies, [143].
• Lances, [125], [139].
• Lansquenet, [335].
• Lanterloo, [335].
• Larks, [li], [38], [39].
• Latimer, Bishop, [354].
• Laund, Perrot de la, [194].
• Laws, Game. See Game Laws.
• Lazarus, [166].
• Leadenhall, [40], [118].
• Leap-frog, [382].
• Leaping and Vaulting, [229], [230].
• Learned pig, [248].
• Learning, [xxxii], [xxxvii].
• Ledo, a Greek, [308].
• Leicester, Abbot of, [11].
• —— Earl of, [128].
• See Kenilworth.
• Lemors, dogs called, [20].
• Lent, [xxiii], [126], [151], [290], [334].
• Leopards, [22].
• Letters described by skating, [88].
• Leufe Castle, [200].
• Lincoln's Inn Society, [343].
• Lions, [22].
• Lists and Barriers, [131].
• See Tournaments.
• Little Goes, [399].
• Living Quintain, [120].
• Loggats, [271], [272].
• Lombards, [94].
• Lombardy, game of, [322].
• London and Londoners; exercises, pastimes, privileges, &c. of, [xxiii], [xxxiv], [xxxv], [xxxvi], [xxxix], [xlvi], [lv], [lvii], [lxii], [16], [55], [56], [57], [66], [69], [75], [76], [80], [86], [87], [90], [92], [126], [146], [147], [150], [186], [219], [220], [252], [256], [261], [262], [269], [274], [281], [284], [286], [296], [302], [316], [325], [327], [347], [349], [358], [359], [361], [362], [372], [375].
• See Finsbury, Lord Mayor, Shoreditch, &c.
• Long Bow. See Bow.
• Long-bowling, [269].
• Longchamp, Bishop, [187].
• Lord and Lady of the May, [353].
• —— Mayor, [xxxvi], [xxxix], [xli], [81], [89], [340], [361], [374].
• —— of Misrule, [339], [340], [341].
• Lorem, Johan de Mees de, [189].
• Lothbroc, story about, [26].
• Lotteries, childrens', [398].
• Lovain, [247].
• Love-feasts, [364].
• Love perfecting Valor, [143].
• Louis XIII., [245].
• Louis, Emperor, [132].
• Lowbelling, [38].
• Luce, a beast called, [xliii], [xlv].
• Lydians, [91], [304].
• Lyon, William de, [93].
• Lytell John, [354].
• Maces, [129].
• Mad-bull, bequest about, [278].
• Madely Manor, [298].
• Madrid, [280].
• Magic-lanthorn, [198], [201].
• Mahometan paradise, [288].
• Maid Marian, [353], [354].
• Main (Welch), [282].
• Making and Marring, [403].
• Mall in St. James's Park, [103].
• Mallards, [37].
• Mandeville, Sir J., [199], [201].
• Marbles, [384].
• Margaret, daughter of Henry VII., [327].
• Margot, a French lady, [94].
• Marian (Maid), [353], [354].
• Marks for shooting at, [62], [65].
• Marriages, game of quintain at, [119].
• Marrow-bones and Cleavers, [294].
• Martins, [17], [18], [22].
• Mary, [xli], [58], [210], [219], [257], [347], [362], [372].
• Marybone Gardens, [290], [376].
• Masquerades, [251].
• Mass, burlesque, [346].
• Massey, Master, [43].
• Master of Defence, [262].
• —— of the game, [17], [20], [21].
• —— of King's revels, [340].
• Match (quick), [376].
• Matilda, Queen of Hen. II., [192].
• Matrimony, game of, [337].
• Mattock, balance-master, [234].
• Maximilian, Emperor, [94], [157].
• May-games, May-day, and May-poles, [lvii], [351] to [358].
• Mecheln, Israel Van, [332].
• Melitus (Abbot), [365].
• Men not so easily taught as children, [62].
• Mendlesham, John le, [194].
• Menelaüs, [210].
• Merchant Taylors' Hall, [67].
• Mercia, [362].
• Merelles, or nine men's morris, [317].
• Meritot, or Merry-trotter, a swing, [302].
• Merlin, [37].
• Merry Andrew, [236], [370].
• —— makers. See Minstrels.
• Merrythought [Meritot], [302].
• Messina, [128].
• Metromachia, [316].
• Mews at Charing-cross, [37].
• Mewtas, Peter, [57].
• Middlesex, [15].
• Middleton, Sir T., [42].
• Midsummer Eve, [359], [360].
• Milan, [33].
• Mile-end archers, [68].
• Miles, James, performer, [226].
• Military Sports, [xxvii] to [xxxi].
• See Archery, &c.
• Milk-maids (May), [357].
• Mimes, or Mimics, [171].
• See Minstrels.
• Minstrels, Merrymakers, &c., [lii], [170]
• northern scalds, [171]
• Saxon gleemen, [171], [172]
• plays with balls and knives, [173]
• a very distinguished minstrel, [175]
• Saxon harpers, [177]
• jestours, [180], [181], [182]
• guild of minstrels, [184]
• abuses and decline of minstrelsy, [185]
• minstrels satyrists and flatterers, [186]
• anecdotes and dress of minstrels, [189], [190]
• rewards to them, [192], [194]
• their profligacy, [192], [205]
• sometimes dancing-masters, [196]
• other notices, [279], [286], [287], [293], [358], [361], [363].
• See Joculators.
• Minuets on the Serpentine ice, [88].
• Miracle plays, [150], [158].
• See Plays.
• Mississippi, [300].
• Mixeberg, [133].
• Moles, [22].
• Monasteries, [346].
• See Clergy.
• Monday, Plough, [348].
• Mongrels, [20].
• Monkeys, [l], [li], [204], [221], [239], [241], [259].
• Monks, [10].
• See Clergy.
• Mons, Winifred, Archbishop of, [25]
• Monson, Sir T., [36].
• Montacute, Lord, [14].
• Montague House, [79].
• Montein (Eton), [347].
• Moody, John, [32].
• Moorflelds, [68].
• Moors, [252], [384].
• Moralities, plays called, [153].
• See Plays.
• More, Sir T., [283].
• Moreland, S. founder of Vauxhall, [288].
• Morging, Lord, [68].
• Morisco, Spanish, [223].
• Morlen, a bagpiper, [195].
• Morris-dancing, [223], [247], [254].
• —— , Nine Mens', &c., [317].
• Morris, Sir Chr. [57].
• Mortimer, Roger de, [140].
• Mosbie, a paramour, [307].
• Moselle the Pegge, [403].
• Mottoes, [403].
• Moving pictures, [168].
• Mount Saint, [334].
• Mountebanks, [236].
• Mountjoy, Charles, Lord, [xx].
• Mules, [22].
• Mummings, or Disguisements, [160], [250].
• See Plays.
• Music and Musicians, [xxiv], [182], [286] to [294].
• See Minstrels.
• —— houses, [287].
• Muskets, [31], [379].
• Mysteries, plays called, [151].
• See Plays.
• Nails, [327].
• Nakerer, Janino le, [194].
• Naples, [200].
• Nauplius, King of Eubœa, [305], [308].
• Nausica, [91].
• Needle-work, [lxiv].
• Nevill, Hugh de, [194].
• New Cut, [334].
• —— Forest, [6].
• —— year, [250], [343], [363].
• Newcastle, [95].
• Newmarket races, [46].
• Newton, Master, [103], [298].
• Nightingales, [28].
• Nine Worthies, [xliii].
• —— holes, [274].
• —— men's morris, [317].
• —— pins, [272], [384].
• Noah, [16], [158].
• Nobility, [xxii], [xxiii], [xxiv], [xxxi], [xxxii], [xxxvii], [xxxviii], [xlvi], [1], [3], [4], [6], [8], [21], [24], [111], [125], [137], [139], [183].
• Nola, Bishop of, [250], [291].
• Norfolk, [284].
• —— Duke of; Lady Anne, his daughter, [148].
• Norman, John, Lord Mayor, [89].
• Normans, [xx], [xxi], [lix], [lxiv], [6], [50], [73], [132], [175], [177], [197], [225], [306].
• Norroy, King at Arms, [135].
• North Walsham, [284].
• Northamptonshire, [19].
• Northumberland house and gardens, [lxiii].
• Norway, [xix].
• Norwich, [11], [343].
• Nunneries, [346].
• Oars, [89].
• Odd (Even and), [386].
• Oatlands, palace of, [14].
• Okebrook, Derb., [367].
• Olaf, Trygession, [xix], [85], [175].
• Olympic games, [78], [80].
• Ombre, [335].
• Opera, [l], [228], [290].
• Orange, Prince of, [94].
• Oratorios, [290].
• Ordeal combats, [138].
• Organ, imitation of, [255].
• Orleans, [377].
• Ostrachinda, [338].
• Othes of Bresugeth, Sir, [200].
• Otter, [18].
• Ouronomachia, [316].
• Outroaring Dick, [287].
• Owls, [284], [285].
• Oxen, docility and adornment of, [243], [285].
• Oxfordshire, [19].
• Pace, R., [xxxii].
• Paganica, [102].
• Pageants, [xxxv], [xl], [xli], [159], [161], [361], [362], [376].
• Pages, [xxv], [135].
• Painter, peril of a, [xliii].
• Pair of cards, [332].
• Palestine, [130].
• Pall-mall, a game, [xxxi], [103], [249].
• Pancakes, [284].
• Pancrass, Earl of, [67].
• Pantheon, Pinkethman's, [169].
• Pantomimes, [6], [167].
• Paper windmill, [390].
• Paradise, Mahometan, [288].
• Pardoners, [22].
• Paris, [204], [217], [241].
• —— Garden, [lvi], [256], [257].
• —— Matthew, [73].
• Parks, [6].
• Parrot (Popinjay), [54], [57], [62].
• Parson has lost his cloak, [403].
• Partridges, [37], [39], [283].
• Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, [250], [291].
• Paume Carie, [322].
• Pavon, a dance, [295].
• Paye, Sir Charles de la, [200].
• Peacock-dance, or Pavon, [295].
• Peacocks, [37], [60], [117], [234].
• Pedlers, [22], [185].
• Peecke, R. curious combat of, [264].
• Pel-quintain, [113], [119], [120].
• Penneech, [335].
• Penny Pricke, [403].
• Pentecost, [183].
• Perrot de Laund, [194].
• Persian Ambassador, [380].
• Peter the Dutchman, [220].
• Pharo bank, [lxiv].
• Pheacia, [91].
• Pheasants, [37].
• Philip and Mary, [lix].
• See Mary.
• —— of France, [141], [264], [309].
• Philips, a Merry-Andrew, [167].
• Philosopher's game, [314].
• Pick-point, [403].
• Picts, [xix].
• Pictures (moving), [168].
• Pigs, [li], [5], [248], [370].
• See Boar.
• Pile (Cross and), [337].
• Pinkethman, Mr., [lii], [169].
• Pinks, Knave of, [329], [331].
• Pins, wooden, games with, [269].
• Pipe-call, [39].
• Pipers, [22], [342].
• Piquet, or Picket, [334].
• Pitch and Hustle, [276].
• Pitchley North, [19].
• Plain dealing, [335].
• Plays and Players, [xxxii], [liv]
• ancient plays, [150]
• their long duration, [151]
• Coventry play, ibid
• mysteries described, [152]
• secular plays, [155]
• plays performed in churches, [157]
• Cornish miracle-plays, [158]
• court plays, [159]
• character of old itinerant players, [159], [181]
• representations of mummers, [160]
• play in honour of Princess Mary, [161]
• of Hock Tuesday, [162]
• decline of secular plays, [163]
• origin of puppet-plays, [164], [165]
• pantomimes and puppet characters, [167]
• moving pictures, [168].
• See also Minstrels.
• Plovers, [37].
• Plough Fool and Plough Monday, [348].
• Plummet, casting the, [75].
• Plumpton, Sir Rob., [19].
• Pluvinel, M., riding-master, [245].
• Poesy, effects of, [170].
• Poets, [179].
• See Minstrels.
• Points, ribbons, [327].
• Pole, Cardinal, [210].
• Poles, May-poles, balancing-poles, &c., [123], [205], [351], [352].
• Polish Draughts, [316].
• Pope, the, [242].
• —— of Fools, [345].
• Popinjay (Parrot), [54], [57], [62].
• Porters, [22].
• Post-quintain, [113].
• Posture-master, [234], [235].
• Pot-guns, or Pop-guns, [380].
• Powel, a puppet-showman, [l], [165].
• Powel, a famous fire-eater, [237].
• Prayers books, how illuminated, [102], [123], [209], [232], [240], [267], [395].
• Preville, Geoffry, Lord of, [132].
• Price, predecessor of Astley, [246].
• —— a burlesque musician, [294].
• Prices ordained for bows, [58].
• Priests. See Clergy.
• Prime and Primero, [328], [333].
• Princes, education of, [xxxi], [22].
• Printing traced to cards, [326].
• Prisoners'-bars, [78], [381].
• Prizes for archery, wrestling, rowing, at tournaments, &c. [69], [82], [83], [89], [90], [133], [138], [139], [143], [149], [192], [225], [263], [372].
• —— called weapons, [262].
• Processions and Pageants, [xxxv], [xlii], [361], [362], [395].
• Prose of the Ox and Ass, [346].
• Pryckeared Curs, [20].
• Punch, [li], [164], [166].
• Pudesey, the piper, [195].
• Puns, royal, [8].
• Puppets and Puppet-shows, [xlix], [164], [165], [167], [223], [231].
• Puppies, ladies', [20].
• Puritans, their zeal against some pastimes, [lv], [lvii].
• Push-pin, [398].
• Puss in the corner, [382].
• Putney, [90].
• Pythagoras, [314].
• Quack doctors, [236].
• Quadrille, [335].
• Quails, [19], [37], [283].
• Quarter-staff, [264].
• Queen, privileges of, at tournaments, &c. [139].
• —— Nazareen, [335].
• —— of Rabbits, [328].
• Queke-borde, [403].
• Questions and Commands, [397].
• Quick-borde, [lxi].
• —— match, [376].
• Quinctus, or Quintas, [115].
• Quindena Paschæ, [349].
• Quintain, [112] to [121].
• Quintus Curtius, [li].
• Quoits, [75], [76].
• Rabbits, [22], [82], [285].
• —— , Queen of, [329], [330].
• Races. See Horse-racing, Foot, &c.
• Raches, hounds called, [6].
• Racket, [92], [93].
• Raher, or Royal Minstrel, [195].
• Ram, ancient prize for wrestling, [81], [82].
• Ranelagh, [289], [377].
• Ranelagh, Earl of, [289].
• Raskall, vermin called, [18].
• Rat (White), [18].
• Ratcliffe, John, of Chester, [xliv].
• Raye, or Hay dance, [297].
• Reclaiming of hawks, [32].
• Regan, King's trumpeter, [344].
• Rein-deer, [18].
• Rethmomachia, [314].
• Reynaud de Roy, [141].
• Ribible, [280].
• Richard I., [lix], [16], [52], [59], [128], [132], [177], [187].
• —— II., [10], [37], [55], [138], [151], [155], [191], [295].
• Riddlesdale, Manor of, Northumberland, [19].
• Riding at the ring, [111], [123].
• Ridotto al Fresco, [288].
• Rinaldo and Armida, [l].
• Ring-ball, [104].
• —— , hopping for, [225].
• —— , tilting at the, [111], [123].
• Ringing bells, [291].
• —— basins, [294].
• Roaver, archery mark, [62].
• Robin Hood, [64], [223], [224], [353], [354], [356].
• Roche de Rien, [52].
• Rochester, Walter, Bishop of, [11].
• Rocks of Scilly, [301].
• Rodham, Norfolk, [27].
• Roe and roebuck, [17], [23], [232].
• Roger the trumpeter, [194], [195].
• Roland, [175].
• Rolling-pin and salt-box music, [294].
• Rolly-polly, [274].
• Rome and Romans, [xviii], [25], [72], [95], [102], [115], [125], [281], [313], [314].
• Rooks, [38].
• Rope-dancing, &c., [xlix], [204], [216], [217], [218], [242], [243], [303], [383], [402].
• Roses, ace of, [329], [331].
• Rosignol, imitator of birds' singing, [255].
• Roubilliac, [289].
• Rouen, [309].
• Rouge et Noir, [lxiv].
• Roulet, [336].
• Round Table (the), [140], [141].
• Rowena, daughter of Hengist, [363].
• Rowing matches on the Thames, &c. [89].
• Royal breakfast, [356].
• —— dancing, [295].
• —— education, [xxxi].
• —— entertainments, [xxxviii], [xlvi].
• —— forests, [6], [54].
• —— hunting, [20].
• —— player with three darts, [17].
• See Kings.
• —— Exchange, [255].
• Ruff, game of, [335].
• Ruffian Hall, Smithfield called, [261].
• Running. See Horse-racing, Foot-racing, &c.
• —— (Bull), [277].
• Rustics, curious imitation by one, [256].
• Rutlandshire, [19].
• Rykell, John, the tregetour, [202].
• Sack running, [371].
• Sadler, Mr. [290].
• —— 's Wells, [221], [210], [226], [234], [247], [289].
• Saddlers, [42].
• Sailing, [90].
• Salmon, Mrs. [51].
• Saint Albans, [17], [150], [255].
• —— Austin, [156].
• —— Bartholomew, Fair, Hospital, &c., [81], [195], [216], [230].
• —— Brice's Day, [350].
• —— Catharine, [151], [362].
• —— Clement, [347].
• —— Cuthbert, [92].
• —— George, [57].
• —— James, [80].
• —— John, [xliv], [209], [346], [367], [373].
• —— Louis, [129], [204].
• —— Matilda's Hospital, [81].
• —— Nicholas, [346].
• —— Paul's church, dean, &c., [36], [152], [155], [218], [219], [373].
• —— Peter, [361], [373].
• —— Stephen, [346].
• —— Saviour's, [356].
• Saintre, Jean de, [324].
• Saints' days, hospitality on, [373].
• Salt-box and rolling-pin music, [294].
• Sampson, predecessor of Astley, [246].
• Sandwich, [147].
• Saracens, [115], [252], [388].
• Sarum, [133].
• Saturnalia, [250], [344].
• Satirists, [186], [187].
• Savoy, [130], [178].
• —— Earl of, [200].
• Saulus, [152].
• Saxons, [xviii], [xx], [xxix], [xxxvii], [lix], [lxiv], [25], [40], [48], [49], [50], [72], [88], [91], [183], [184], [187], [188], [208], [210], [214], [225], [259], [306], [320], [345], [363].
• Scalds (Northern), [171], [178].
• See Minstrels.
• Scandinavians, [171], [178].
• See Minstrels.
• School-plays, [379] to [400].
• Scotland, [88], [309].
• Scripture dramas, [150].
• See Plays.
• —— phrases used as charms, [34].
• Seasons (hunting), [22], [23].
• Seaton, manor of, Kent, [16].
• Secular music and plays, [155], [287].
• See Music, Plays.
• Serjeants, [22].
• Serpentine River, [88].
• Servants, [xxxv], [lxv], [37].
• Shacklewell, [67].
• Shadow fighting, [77].
• Shakespeare, [xlix].
• Sheep-shearing, [363].
• Sheriffs, [20], [340].
• Sherries, in Spain, [264].
• Sherwood Forest, [19], [59].
• Shields, [xxix].
• Shoe-lane, [282].
• Shoes, quoits sometimes called, [77].
• Shooters' Hill, [56], [63].
• Shooting. See Archery.
• Shoreditch, Duke of, [67], [68].
• Shovel-board, [xxx], [297], [298].
• Shropshire, [309].
• Shrove Tuesday, or Tide, [42], [92], [101], [281], [288], [284], [343], [349], [390].
• Shuttle-cock, [303].
• Sicily, [128].
• Sidney, Sir R. [14].
• Sieges, cross-bows used at, [52].
• Similes, [403].
• Simpson, Master, a vaulter, [230].
• Singers, ballad-singers, &c. [287], [294], [372].
• See Joculators.
• —— , imitation of singing birds, [255].
• Single-wicket, [106].
• Skating, [86], [87].
• Skinner's Well, near Smithfield, [151].
• Skiomackia, [77].
• Skipping, [383].
• Skittles, [272], [384].
• Sledge-hammer throwing, [75].
• Sledges, ice, [86].
• Sleights of jugglers, [204].
• See Joculators.
• Slide-thrift, [301].
• Sliding on ice, [86], [382], [384].
• Slinging, [52], [71], [72], [73], [74], [379].
• Slipper (Hunt the), [387].
• Slur-bows. See Bows.
• Slyp-groat, [301].
• Smalserhorn Rock, [xix].
• Smithfield, [40], [68], [165], [259], [261], [287].
• Smock-racing, [371].
• Smoking apes and matches, [243], [371].
• Snake, game of, [337].
• Snap-dragon, [397].
• Snatchood, [lxi].
• Snipes, [37].
• Socrates, [380].
• Soldiers, [xxxii], [xxxiii], [85], [314].
• Solitary Game (the), [319].
• Somersault, [229], [230].
• Somerset, Duke of, uncle of Ed. VI., [340].
• Somersetshire, [95].
• Sompners, [22].
• Songsters. See Minstrels.
• Soup, a fire-eater's, [236].
• Southwark fair, [247].
• Spades of playing cards, [324].
• Spain and Spaniards, [lii], [222], [243], [280], [324], [334].
• —— , Ervalton of, [265].
• Span (Counter), [384].
• Spaniels, [19].
• Sparrows, [li].
• Spears, throwing, balancing, &c., [5], [75], [141], [148], [234].
• Spell, Northen, [109].
• Spendall, Sir J. [166].
• Spinacuta, a rope-dancer, [221].
• Spinning by ladies, [lxv].
• —— cockchafers, &c., [388], [389].
• Sport, beasts of, names of, [17].
• Spring Gardens, [288].
• Spurs for cock-fighting, [282].
• Spytard (the), a centenarian hart, [18].
• Stalking-horse, [38].
• Stinking flight, beasts of, [18].
• Stone bows. See Bow.
• Stones, slinging, throwing. See Slinging.
• —— eating, [236].
• Stool-ball, [103].
• Stow-ball, [103].
• Straw-balancing, [234].
• Strength, instances of, [xix], [264].
• Strings for bows, [59].
• Sturges, a great chess player, [317].
• Suffolk, [349].
• —— , Duke of, [328].
• Sunday, [xlvii], [xlviii], [8], [342], [355], [356], [366].
• Surrey, [15].
• Swallows, [38].
• Swan (the Old), near London bridge, [89].
• —— , White, Chelsea, [89].
• Swans, [35], [36], [37].
• Swash-buckler, [261].
• Sweet flight, beasts of, [18].
• Swimming, [85], [384].
• Swine-hunting, [5].
• Swinging, [122], [302], [384].
• Swords for tournaments, balancing dances, &c., [xxi], [xxix], [134], [203], [214], [215], [216], [232], [233], [259], [260], [263].
• Sybarites, [242].
• Syria, [179], [325].
• Tabernacles, feast of, [364].
• Table, the round, [140].
• Tables, or Backgammon, [xxi], [319].
• Tabors beat by hares and horses, [208], [244].
• Taillefer, a minstrel, [xix], [175].
• Takill, an arrow. See Arrows.
• Talares of the Greeks, [87].
• Tale-tellers, [180].
• See Joculators.
• Tambourine, [247].
• Tansy-cakes, [349].
• Taper lighting, [395].
• Tapestry, [lxiv], [4].
• Tapper, or Span-Counter, [384].
• Targets, [62].
• Tarpeia, [357].
• Taw, [384].
• Taylors, [22], [235].
• —— (the Devil among the), [385].
• Tazel, place called, [54].
• Te-totum, [384].
• Tell, William, his feat of archery, [65].
• Tennis and Tennis-Courts, [94], [95].
• Terms applied in hunting, [22].
• —— hawking, [37].
• —— to various trades or classes, [22].
• Terrours, dogs called, [20].
• Testimony and argument, [51].
• Thames, the, [xxxvi], [89].
• —— Street, [360].
• Theseus, [xxii].
• Thieves, [xxii].
• Tholomew, Sir, [xxv].
• Thomas à Becket, [11].
• —— of Walsingham, [130].
• Thrace, [25].
• Thread the needle, [381].
• Thresh the fat hen, [348].
• Throwing at cocks, &c., [xxxii], [283], [349], [355], [370].
• Timbrels, [231].
• Time, division of, [7].
• Tinkers, or Buffoons, [22], [185], [237].
• Tip-cat, [6], [109].
• Tiptoft, John, Earl of Worcester, [138].
• Titter-totter, [303].
• Tobacco-pipe music, [294].
• Tongs and bellows music, [294].
• Topas, Sir, [185].
• Tops, boys', [385].
• Torre, a firework maker, [376].
• Tothill-fields, [259].
• Tournaments, [xxi], [xxvii], [xxviii].
• fatal violence at, [129]
• interdicted by the church, [129]
• real contest at one, [130]
• laws for, [133]
• different from justs, [125]
• origin of tournaments, ibid
• first practice of tournaments, [131]
• account of them in England, [132]
• pages and perquisites of Kings at Arms, [135]
• preliminaries of the tournament, [138]
• lists for ordeal combats, [138]
• their great splendour, [143]
• toys for imitating them, [146], [380]
• challenges for them, &c., [148], [380].
• Tower-hill, [376].
• Toys for children's imitation of martial exercises, [144].
• Tragedies, definition of, &c., [157].
• See Plays.
• Troubadours, [178].
• Tuck, Friar, [354].
• Tufa, a standard, [xxxvii].
• Tuesday. See Hock, Shrove.
• Tumbling, [207] to [212], [217], [229].
• Turketully, Abbot of Croyland, [291].
• Turkish ambassador, [66].
• Turks, [220], [252].
• Turre, Essex, manor of, [16].
• Turtles, [37].
• Tutbury, Suffolk, [191], [277], [279].
• Tuttel, Mr. [332].
• Twelfth Eve, &c., [342], [349], [363].
• Twicy, or Twety, William, [17], [349].
• Twisted tree, [349].
• Tyers, Jonathan, [288].
• Tykehill, [133].
• Tyrrheno, a Greek, [308].
• Ule games, [xxxiv].
• See Christmas.
• Ulster, Earl of, Courcy, [264].
• Ulysses, [308], [311].
• Umfraville, Robert de, [19].
• Unearthing a fox, [5].
• Unicorn, [252].
• Universities, [343]
• London in 1615, called the third university, [261].
• Uter Pendragon, [140].
• Valentia, [280].
• Valor perfected by Love, [143].
• Vaulting, [207], [229].
• Vauxhall Gardens, [90], [280], [377].
• Venter Point, [403].
• Vermin, [xxiv].
• Vice, a dramatic character, [153].
• Vielle, [178].
• Violante, Signora, [220].
• Vizors, [251], [252].
• Voices of animals and men, imitations of, [255].
• Vortigern, [363].
• Vulcan's Forge, [376].
• Vulture, [37].
• Waits, [xli], [361], [363].
• Wakes, [364].
• Wales, Constantine, King of, [3].
• Wallingford, [133].
• Walloons, [147].
• Walsham (North), [284].
• Walsingham, Thomas of, [130].
• Walter, Bishop of Rochester, [11].
• Wardrobe, old theatrical, [159].
• Warren, Earl of, [278].
• Warwick, [133].
• —— Earl of, [52].
• Wassails, [363].
• Wasters and Bucklers, [35].
• Wat Wimbas, [287].
• Watch, setting the, [xxxix], [361].
• Water-fowl, [28].
• —— tilting, [88], [120].
• —— fireworks on, [374].
• —— See Rowing, Sailing, Swimming, Thames, &c.
• Watteville, M. Robert, [337].
• Wedgenoke Park, [6].
• Welch, [320]
• Welch-main, [282].
• Wells, William, bear-garden, of, [259].
• Westminster, [81], [117], [148], [320], [357], [372].
• —— Abbey, [289].
• —— Hall, [188].
• —— Palace, [lxi], [79].
• Wheelbarrow-racing, [371].
• Wheels, balancing of, [233].
• Wherry (Astley's), [290].
• Whetstone, George, pageant by, [xli].
• Whipping for gamblers, [vi].
• Whirligig, [385].
• Whist, [94], [269], [282].
• Whistling, [255], [294].
• White and Black, [403].
• Whitehall, [94], [269], [282].
• Whitsuntide, [xxxiv], [41], [309], [358].
• Whittington against Rinaldo, [l].
• Wicker-work, boats of, [88].
• Wild-bear, cat, &c. See Boar, Cat, &c.
• William I., [xxi], [4], [6], [175], [309].
• —— III., [46], [236].
• Wilton, [133].
• Windsor, [140], [157], [364].
• Wind-ball, [95].
• —— mill (paper), [390].
• Winifred, Archbishop of Mons, [25].
• Wire-dancing, [228].
• Wit and Reason, [335].
• Wives, [22].
• See Women.
• Wodehouse, or Woodhouses, [161], [378].
• Wolsey, Cardinal, [156].
• Wolves, [18], [22], [23].
• Women, [xliv], [184], [188], [207], [216], [227], [350].
• See also Ladies.
• Woodcocks, [37], [39].
• Woodstock Park, [6].
• Worcester, Earl of, [138].
• Wrestling, [80] to [84], [76], [264], [285], [355], [359].
• Wurgund, Peter de, [189].
• Xeres in Spain, [264].
• Xerxes, a philosopher, [308].
• Yawning-match, [370].
• Yeomen of King's bow, [21].
• York, [189], [191].
• —— , Duke of, [148].
• —— shire, [230].
• Yule Plough, or Fool Plough, [348].
• Zany, [371].
• Ziklag, [71].

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