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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    SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. BOOK I. RURAL EXERCISES PRACTISED BY PERSONS OF RANK. CHAPTER I. I. Hunting more ancient than Hawking.—II. State of Hunting among the Britons. —III. The Saxons expert in Hunting.—IV. The Danes also.-V. The Saxons subsequently ;—The Normans.—VI. Their tyrannical Proceedings.—VII. Hunt- ing and Hawking after the Conquest.—VIII. Laws relating to Hunting.—IX. Hunting and Hawking followed by the Clergy.—X. The Manner in which the dignified Clergy in the Middle Ages pursued these Pastimes.—XI. The English Ladies fond of these Sports.—XII. Privileges of the Citizens of London to Hunt;—Private Privileges for Hunting.-XIII. Two Treatises on Hunting con- sidered.—XIV. Names of Beasts to be hunted.—XV. Wolves not all destroyed in Edgar’s Time.—XVI. Dogs for Hunting.—XVII. Various Methods of Hunting.—XVIII. Terms used in Hunting ;—Times when to hunt. I.—HUNTING MORE ANCIENT THAN HAWKING. We have several English treatises upon the subject of Hunting, but none of them very ancient; the earliest I have met with i.s a MS. in the Cotton Library at the British Museum,' written at the commencement of the fourteenth century. These compo- sitions bear great resemblance to each other, and consist of general rules for the pursuit of game ; together with the names and nature of the animals proper for hunting, and such other ' Vespasian, B. xii. There are also three copies of tliisMS. but more modern, ia the Royal Library. [See sec. xiii. of the present chapter.] B
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