Title Page : Joseph Strutt, 1749-1802. From the Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. THE SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND BY JOSEPH STRUTT From The Earliest Period, Including The Rural And Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions And Pompous Spectacles, Illustrated By...
Book Iii. Pastimes Usually Exercised In Towns. Part 06 : p. 130 CHAPTER II Ancient Plays--Miracle Plays, Dramas from Scripture, etc. continued several days--The Coventry Play--Mysteries described--How enlivened--The "Pageant" or Stage--Cornish Miracle Plays--Moralities described--Secular Plays--Interludes--Chaucer's Definition of the Tragedies of his...
Preface : p. v PREFACE IN bringing out a new edition of "Sports and Pastimes," it will probably be of interest to put on record a few facts with regard to the author, who has a fair claim to be ranked among the distinguished literary men of the close of the eighteenth century. Joseph Strutt, engraver...
Book Iii. Pastimes Usually Exercised In Towns. Part 02 : Tutored Bears p. 195 CHAPTER VI Animals how tutored by the Jugglers--Tricks performed by Bears--Tricks performed by Apes and Monkeys--Bears in Britain--Tricks by Horses in the thirteenth Century--In queen Anne's Reign--Origin of the Exhibitions at Astley's, the Circus, etc.--Dancing Dogs--The Hare...
Book Iv. Domestic Amusements Of Various Kinds. Part 04 : p. 229 BOOK IV DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS OF VARIOUS KINDS; AND PASTIMES APPROPRIATED TO PARTICULAR SEASONS CHAPTER I Secular Music fashionable--Ballad-singers encouraged by the Populace--Music Houses--Introduction of the Harpsichord--Origin of Vauxhall--Ranelagh--Sadler's Wells--Marybone...
Introduction : p. xv ["An asterisk is prefixed to all the newly written paragraphs throughout the work".] INTRODUCTION A GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE POPULAR SPORTS, PASTIMES, AND MILITARY GAMES, TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS SPECTACLES OF MIRTH OR SPLENDOUR, EXHIBITED PUBLICLY OR PRIVATELY, FOR THE SAKE OF AMUSEMENT...
Next. Chapter I : p. 1 SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND BOOK I RURAL EXERCISES PRACTISED BY PERSONS OF RANK CHAPTER I State of Hunting among the Britons--The Saxons expert in Hunting--The Danes also--The Saxons subsequently--The Normans--Their tyrannical Proceedings--Hunting and Hawking after...
Book Iii. Pastimes Usually Exercised In Towns. Part 04 : p. 167 CHAPTER IV The Joculator--His different Denominations and extraordinary Deceptions--His Performances ascribed to Magic--Asiatic Jugglers--Remarkable Story from Froissart--Tricks of the Jugglers ascribed to the Agency of the Devil; but more reasonably accounted for--John Rykell, a celebrated...
Ii. Rural Exercises Generally Practised. Part 02 : p. 59 CHAPTER II Slinging of Stones an Ancient Art--Known to the Saxons--And the Normans--How practised of late Years--Throwing of Weights and Stones with the Hand--By the Londoners--Casting of the Bar and Hammer--Of Spears--Of Quoits--Swinging of Dumb Bells--Foot Races--The Game...
Book Iv. Domestic Amusements Of Various Kinds. Part 03 : p. 245 CHAPTER II Sedentary Games--Dice-playing--Its Prevalency and bad Effects--Ancient Dice-box--Dicing Games without Tables--Dicing Games within Tables--Backgammon--Its former and present Estimation--Chess--Its Antiquity--The Morals of Chess--Early Chess-play in France and Engl...
List Of Illustrations : p. xiii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS JOSEPH STRUTT Frontispiece "Opposite Page" I. HUNTING (I) 2 II. HUNTING (2) 8 III. ROYALTY HUNTING 18 IV. HAWKING 24 V. ARCHERY AND SLINGING 40 VI. ARCHERY 42 VII. WRESTLING. 72 VIII. GAMES WITH THE BALL (I) 80 IX. GAMES WITH THE BALL (2) 82 X. DUKE OF YORK AT TENNIS...
Book I. Rural Exercises Practised : p. 32 CHAPTER III Horse-racing known to the Saxons--Races in Smithfield, and why--Races, at what Seasons practised--The Chester Races--Stamford Races--Value of Running-horses--Highly prized by the Poets, etc.--Horse-racing commended as a liberal Pastime--Charles II. and other monarchs encouragers...
Book Iii. Pastimes Usually Exercised In Towns : p. 216 CHAPTER VII Ancient Specimens of Bowling--Poem on Bowling--Bowling-greens first made by the English--Bowling-alleys--Long-bowling--Gaming at Bowls--Charles I. and Charles II. fond of Bowls--Supposed Orig...
Ii. Rural Exercises Generally Practised. Chapter I : p. 39 BOOK II RURAL EXERCISES GENERALLY PRACTISED CHAPTER I The English famous for their Skill in Archery--The Use of the Bow known to the Saxons and the Danes--Form of the Saxon Bow, and in peace it became an object of amusement. It will be needless to insist upon the skill of the English archers...
Untitled : This book is a key source for information on leisure time activities in 'Olde England,' including sports, hunting, games, dancing, gymnastics, music, festivals including Christmas and May Day and customs such as Mumming, The Boy Bishop, and The Lord of Misrule. It answers questions such as "How do...
Next. Chapter Ii : p. 21 CHAPTER II Hawking practised by the Nobility--Its Origin not well known--A favourite Amusement with the Saxons--Romantic Story relative to Hawking--Grand Falconer of France, his State and Privileges--Edward III. partial to Hawking--Saxon Hawking--Ladies fond of Hawking--Its...
Book Iv. Domestic Amusements Of Various Kinds : p. 300 CHAPTER IV Popular manly Pastimes imitated by Children--Horses--Racing and Chacing--Wrestling and other Gymnastic Sports--Marbles and Span-counter--Tops, etc.--The Devil among the Tailors--Even or Odd--Chuck-halfpenny--Duck and Drake--Baste the Bear--Hunt the Slipper, etc.--Sporting with...
Book Iii. Pastimes Usually Exercised In Towns. Part 05 : p. 148 CHAPTER III The British Bards--The Northern Scalds--The Anglo-Saxon Gleemen--The Nature of their Performances--A Royal Player with three Darts--Bravery of a Minstrel in the Conqueror's Army--Other Performances by Gleemen--The Harp an Instrument of Music much used by the Saxons--Harpers...
Book Iv. Domestic Amusements Of Various Kinds. Part 02 : p. 267 CHAPTER III The Lord of Misrule said to be peculiar to the English--A Court Officer--The Master of the King's Revels--The Lord of Misrule and his Conduct reprobated--The King of Christmas--of the Cockneys--A King of Christmas at Norwich--The King of the Bean--Whence...
Ii. Rural Exercises Generally Practised : p. 80 CHAPTER III Hand-ball an ancient Game--Used by the Saxons--And by the Schoolboys of London--Ball Play in France--Hand Tennis or Fives--Fives in Church and Churchyard--Tennis--Tennis Courts erected--Tennis fashionable in England--Killed by a Tennis Ball--London Tennis Courts in 1615--Orig...
Book Iii. Pastimes Usually Exercised In Towns. Part 03 : p. 174 CHAPTER V Dancing, Tumbling, and Balancing, part of the Joculator's Profession--Performed by Women--Dancing connected with Tumbling--Antiquity of Tumbling--Various Dances described--The Gleemen's Dances--Exemplification of Gleemen's Dances--The Sword Dance--Rope-Dancing and wonderful...
Book Iii. Pastimes Usually Exercised In Towns. Part 07 : p. 105 BOOK III PASTIMES USUALLY EXERCISED IN TOWNS AND CITIES, OR PLACES ADJOINING TO THEM CHAPTER I Tournament a general Name for several Exercises--The Quintain an ancient Military Exercise--Various Kinds of the Quintain--Derivation of the Term--The Water Quintain--Running at the Quint...