[363] For further information on this subject consult Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876; Kelly’s “Notices of Leicester,” pp. 152-159.
[364] Chambers’s “Book of Days,” 1864, vol. ii. pp. 518, 519.
[365] Hampson’s “Œvi Medii Kalendarium,” vol. i. p. 96.
[366] See Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xcviii. pp. 401, 402.
[367] See “Book of Days,” vol. ii. pp. 517-519.
[368] “Embossed” is a hunting term, properly applied to a deer when foaming at the mouth from fatigue, see p. [179]; also Dyce’s “Glossary to Shakespeare,” p. 142; see Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 275.
[369] Wright’s “Domestic Manners,” p. 304; see Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes;” Smith’s “Festivals, Games, and Amusements,” 1831, pp. 192-229.
[370] “Book of Days,” vol. ii. p. 59.
[371] Cf. “2 Henry IV.” ii. 2, “the town-bull.”
[372] “Folk-Lore of Northern Counties,” p. 267; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 7.