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. Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings.

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Credit: 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. Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which he managed with great adroitness, and performed a vast variety of tunes. The small bells were not always held in the hand; they were sometimes suspended upon a stand, and struck with hammers, by which means one person could more readily play upon them. An example of this kind, taken from a manuscript m the Royal Library,^ is given beloAV. 96. Hand-bblls.—XIV. Cbntukt. The figure in the original is designed as a representation of king David, and affixed to one of his psalms. ] XI.—BURLESQUE MUSIC. The minstrels and joculators seem to have had the knack of converting every kind of amusement into a vehicle for merri- ment, and among others, that of music has not escaped them. ' No. 20. B. xi.