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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

Chapter 1: THE SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND:
By Joseph Strutt
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A comprehensive survey of popular sports, pastimes, and public spectacles in England from early eras to the author's present, tracing origins, evolution, and social functions. It catalogues rural exercises such as hunting and hawking, knightly and military games, civic pageants, may-games, mummeries, crowd entertainments, and urban recreations; examines legal and religious responses, class participation, and changing fashions; and organizes historical descriptions alongside engraved illustrations and a copious index to guide readers.

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Title: The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Author: Joseph Strutt

Editor: William Hone

Release date: May 17, 2015 [eBook #48983]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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THE

SPORTS AND PASTIMES

OF THE

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND:

INCLUDING THE

RURAL AND DOMESTIC RECREATIONS,
MAY GAMES, MUMMERIES, SHOWS, PROCESSIONS, PAGEANTS, & POMPOUS SPECTACLES
FROM
THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY JOSEPH STRUTT.

ILLUSTRATED BY
One Hundred and Forty Engravings.

IN WHICH ARE REPRESENTED

MOST OF THE POPULAR DIVERSIONS;
SELECTED FROM ANCIENT PAINTINGS.

A NEW EDITION, WITH A COPIOUS INDEX,

BY WILLIAM HONE,
AUTHOR OF THE EVERY-DAY BOOK, TABLE BOOK, YEAR BOOK, ETC.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG,
73, CHEAPSIDE.
1845.

J. Haddon, Printer, Castle Street, Finsbury.