[320] "Six score paces." Song.
[321] God forbid.
[322] Archæologia, vol. i. p. 58.
[323] [Mr Strutt wrote this in 1800.]
[325] Survey of Cornwall, 1602.
[326] In vita Hen. VIII. fol. 8.
[327] Stow's Survey, by Strype, vol. i. p. 250.
[328] Strype's London, vol. i. p. 250.
[329] Archæologia, vol. vii.
[330] MS. Harl. 365, fol. 96.
[331] An. 7 et 9 Hen. VII. MS. in the Remembrancer's Office. See also Appendix to Dr. Henry's Hist. Brit. vol. vi.
[332] Archæologia, vol. vii.
[333] In Life of Hen. VIII. 1511, fol. 8.
[334] Archæologia, vol. vii.
[335] Ency. Brit.
[336] Judges, chap. xx. ver. 16.
[337] 1 Chron. chap. xii. ver. 2.
[338] 1 Samuel, chap. xvii. and xviii.
[339] Claudius, B. iv.
[340] 14. B. v.
[341] C. v. 16.
[342] Manners and Customs of the English, vol. i.
[343] Titus A. xxiii. part 1, fol. 8.
[344] Iliad, book xxiii.
[345] In his Dictionary, under quoit.
[346] Fitzstephen's Description of London.
[347] Rot. claus. Memb. 23.
[348] Froissart, Lord Berners' translation, vol. iv. chap. 149, fol. 184.
[349] Σκιομαχια.
[350] Vol. ii. No. 115.
[351] Orbis sensualium Pictus.
[352] Compleat Gentleman, 1622.
[353] Titus A. xxiii. part i. page 6. See p. 73. sec. iii.
[354] Johnson's Dictionary, word Base.
[355] "Nul enfaunt ne autres ne jue—à barres." Rot. Parl. MS. Harl. 7057.
[356] Cymbeline.
[357] Worthies of England in Cornwall, p. 197.
[358] Survey of Cornwall, 1602, p. 75.
[359] Matthew Paris. Hist. Ang. sub an. 1222.
[360] Survey of London, p. 78, 85.
[361] The margin says, "at Skinner's Well."
[362] There are now, says the author, no such men, meaning "the porters of the king's beam," that is, at the commencement of the seventeenth century.
[363] Survey of London, p. 85.
[364] I presume he means the mace.
[365] Hentzner's Itinerary first published A. D. 1598. Lord Orford's translation, Strawberry Hill edition, p. 36.
[366] Canterbury Tales.
[367] Prologues to the Canterbury Tales.
[368] 2 B. viii.
[369] Second fit, or part, Garrick's Collect. Old Plays, K. vol. x.
[370] Vol. ii. No. 161, published 1711.
[371] Survey of Cornwall, 1602, p. 75.
[372] Ιππας.
[373] Pollux, lib. ix. cap. 7.
[374] 2 B. vii.
[375] 2464, Bod. 264.
[376] Pontoppidan's Hist. of Norway, p. 148.
[377] MS. Cott. Titus, A. xxiii.
[378] Wood, or wode, signifies wild or mad; and here, that the rain makes the rivers swell and overpass their bounds.
[379] Edit. 1550, p. 13.
[380] The river Thames.
[381] Sikerer, surer, safer; that is, neither the one nor the other should have any extraneous assistance, but each should depend entirely upon his own exertions to escape from the water.
[382] History of all the schools and colleges in and about London, printed A. D. 1615.
[383] In D'Urfey's Collection of Songs, 1719, vol. iii. p. 4.
[384] Oläi. Worm. Lit. Run. p. 129.
[385] Ency. Brit. art. Skating.
[386] Cæsar Bell. Gall. lib. v. cap. 12.
[387] Bartholin, p. 420.
[388] Will. Malms. Mat. West. in the reign of Edgar.
[389] Fitzstephen's Description of London. Stow's Survey.
[390] See book iii. chap. i. sec. v.
[391] Lib. i.
[392] Ælian, lib. ii. Volaterranus, lib. xxix.
[393] Odyssey, by Pope, b. v.
[394] No. lvii.
[395] "Sive enim saltu, sive cursu, sive luctatu," &c. Vita Sancti Cudbereti, cap. i.
[396] "Lusum pilæ celebrem." Stephanides de ludis.
[397] "The scholars of each school have their ball or bastion in their hands." Survey of London.
[398] Lord Lyttelton, History of Henry the Second, vol. iii. p. 275; and [Dr. Pegge] the translator of Fitzstephen, in 1772.
[399] By the word celebrem Fitzstephen might advert to the antiquity of the pastime.
[400] Jeu de paume, and in Latin pila palmaria.
[401] Essais historiques sur Paris, vol. i. p. 160
[402] Laboureur. Sub an. 1368.
[403] Published by Hoole, 1658.
[404] John Heywoode's works, London, 1566.
[405] In the life of Henry V11I. the second year of his reign, fol. 11.
[406] Ibid. fol. 98.
[407] Survey of London, p. 496.
[408] Basilicon Doron, b. iii.
[409] MSS. Harl. 2248 and 6271.
[410] St. Foix Essais Historiques sur Paris, vol. i. p. 160.
[411] Antiquities of the Common People, chap. xxiv.
[412] Table Talk, art. Christmas.
[413] Mr. Brand, in his additions to Bourne.
[414] Fuller's Worthies, published 1662, p. 168.
[415] Progresses of Q. Eliz. by Mr. Nichols, vol. ii. p. 19.
[416] Martial, lib. iv. Epig. 45.
[417] Orbis Sensualium Pictus, cap. 133.
[418] 20. D. iv.
[419] No. 6563.
[420] In his Dictionary; word stool.
[421] See also his Pills to purge Melancholy, vol. i. p. 91.
[422] Survey of Cornwall, 1602, book i. p. 73.
[423] "Philogamus," black letter, without date.
[424] See sec. ix. p. 55.
[425] Ship of Fools, 1508.
[426] Basilicon Doron, book iii.
[427] Barclay ut supra.
[428] I rather think the elder Randel Holmes, one of the city heralds, MS. Harl. 2150, fol. 235.
[430] Acted A.D. 1659.
[431] Cambuta vel cambuca. Baculus incurvatus, a crooked club or staff: the word cambuca was also used for the virga episcoparum, or episcopal crosier, because it was curved at the top. Du Cange, Glossary, in voce cambuta.
[432] An anonymous author, Harl. MS. 6391.
[433] Orbis Sensualium Pictus, cap. cxxxvi.
[434] No. 264.
[435] 14. B. v.
[436] Pills to purge Melancholy, fourth edition, 1719, vol. ii. p. 172.
[438] In the Introduction.
[439] Vegetius de re militari, lib. i. cap. xi. et xiv.
[440] "Terræ infixis sudibus scuta apponuntur—Quintanæ ludus scilicet equestris exerceretur—in equis lusitari solitum appeusis sudes in terram impactas scutis." Robertus Monach. Hist Hierosol. lib. v.
[441] Menestrier, Traité des Tournois, Joustes, &c. p. 264.
[442] Menestrier ut supra; Du Cange Gloss, in voce quintana; Pluvinel sur l'exercise de monter à cheval, part iii. p. 177.
[443] Menestrier, p. 112, et Pluvinel ut supra.
[444] 20. B. xi
[445] Knyghthode and Batayle, MS. Cott. Titus A. xxiii. fol. 6 and 7. This curious poem, written early in the fifteenth century, appears to be a translation of the former treatise, or rather a paraphrase upon it.
[446] Set up.
[447] Of man's height.
[448] A mace or club of wood.
[449] Hath not.
[450] Close.
[451] Prompt, swift, ready.
[452] From the French, empêcher, to hinder or withstand, here used for attack.
[453] Throat.
[454] Power, strength.
[455] Than is required, that is in time of real action.
[456] It is the same.
[457] A quincto auctore nomen habebat, vide Joan Meursi, de Ludis Græcorum, in tit Κονταξ Κυντανος.
[458] Vegetius de re militari. lib. i. cap. xi. et xiv.
[459] Κυντανον χονταξ χωρις της πυρπις, quintanum contacem sine fibula. Cod. de aleatoribus, lib. iii. tit. 43.
[460] Stephanides Descrip. Lond.
[461] 2 B. vii.
[462] Matthew Paris. Hist. Angl. sub an 1253.
[463] Strype's Stow, &c.
[464] Bod. 264.
[465] Survey of London, p.
[466] First published in 1677.
[467] Laneham in Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, by Mr. Nichols, vol. i. p. 249.
[468] Traité de Tournois, 1669, p. 347.
[469] Le Roman de Giron le courtois. Du Cange, Gloss. in voce quintana.
[470] Lib. iv. Sat. 3.
[471] Referred to in p. 118.
[472] Gloss. in voce quintana.
[473] Orbis Sensualium Pictus, by Hoole, 1658.
[474] Art de monter à cheval, part iii. p. 156.
[475] Menestrier, Traité de Tournoi, p. 112.
[476] Du Cange, Gloss. in voce justa.
[477] Tacitus Annal. lib. xi. Et Suetonius in vit. Claud.
[478] Du Cange, Gloss. in voce bohordicum. The word, somewhat differently spelt, occurs in Mandat. Reg. Angl. cited by Du Cange, and in Rymer Fœd. tom. v. p. 223 et alia.
[479] Roman D'Aubrey, MS. apud Du Cange ut supra.
[480] Annal. pars posterior sub an. 1191.
[481] Cotgrave.
[482] Origines des Chevaliers, &c. p. 9.
[483] No. 2252. fol. 64.
[484] A small space of time.
[485] Heralds, whose office it was to superintend the ceremonious parts of the tournaments.
[486] Reward.
[487] Hist. Angl. fol. 3, A.D. 1274.
[488] Ludum militarum (qui vulgo torneamentum dicitur). Ibid.
[489] Tracte de Tournois.
[490] No. 326.
[491] Complete Gentleman, p. 178.