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.

Joseph Strutt

Date:: 183l

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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$Love perfecting Valor, H3, Louis XIII. 245. Louis, Emperor, 132. LowLelling, 38. Luce, a beast called, 43, 45, Intr. Lydians, 81, 304. Lyon, William de, 93. Lytell John, 354. Maces, 129. Mad-bull, bequest about, 278. Madely Alanor, 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, 190, 201. Marbles, 384. Margaret, daughter of Henry VII. 327. Margot, a French lady, 94. Marian (Maid), 353, 354. Marks for shooting at, C2, 65. Marriages, game of quintain at, 119, Marrow-bones and Cleavers, 294. Martins, 17, 18, 22. Mary, 41, Intr. 58, 210, 219, 267, 347, 362, 372. Mary bone 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, 57, Intr. 351 to 358. Mecheln, Israel Van, 332. Melitus (Abbot), 365. Men not so easily taught as children, 62. Mendlesham, John le, 194. Menelaus, 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, 859, 360. Milan. 33. Mile-end archers, 68. Miles, James, performer, 226. Military Sports, 27 to 31, Intr. 8ce Archery, &c. Milk-maids (May), 357. Mimes, or Mimics, 171. See Min- strels. Minstrels, Merrymakers, &c. 52, Intr. 170—northern scalds, 171—Saxon gleemen, 171, 172 — plays with balls and knives, 173—a very dis- tinguished minstrel, 175 — Saxon harpers, 17 7—j estours, 180,181,182 —guild of minstrels, 184—abuses and decline of minstrelsy, 185— minstrels satyrists and flatterers, 186—anecdotes and dress of min- strels, 189, 190—rewards to them, 192, 194—their profligacy, 193, 205—sometimes dancing-masters, 196—other notices, 279, 286, 287, 293, 358, 301, 363. See Jocula^ tors. 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, 50, 51, Intr, 204; 2^1, 239, 241, 259, Monks, 10. See Clergy. Mons, Winifred, Archbishop of, 25. Monson, Sir T, 36, Montacute, Lord, 14- Montague House, 79, Montem (Eton), 347, Moody, John, 32. Moorfields, 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 i\Iens’, &c. 317.$