Identifier: gri_33125012252157 (find matches)
Title: Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions
Year: 1810 (1810s)
Authors: Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802
Subjects: Sports Games
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, for White and Co. (and 7 more)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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rth of England ; it is played ina ground or alley appropriated to the purpose, and a ball is to be drivenfrom one end of it to the other with a mallet, the handle of whichis about three feet three or four inches in length, and so far it resemblespall-mall; but there is the addition of a ring, which is placed at an equaldistance from the sides of the alley, but much nearer to the bottom thanthe top of the ground, and through this ring it is necessary for the ballto be passeS in its progress ; the ring is made to turn with great facilityupon a swivel, and the two flat sides are distinguished from each other: if i In Littletons Latin and English Dictionary the goff-ball and the stow-ball are the same. See hisexplanation of the Latin word paganica. k See preceding page;1 French and English dictionary, under pale-maille.m Orbis sensualium pictus, chap, cxxxvi.« At least the ring is not mentioned by Cotgrave; I have however been told, that it was sometimesused in the game of mall. PI .YIU.
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BOOK II. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 97 the ball passes through the one it is said to be lawful, and the playergoes on; but if through the other, it is declared to be unlawful, and heis obliged to beat the ball back, and drive it through again until suchtime as he causes it to pass on the lawful side; this done, he proceedsto the bottom of the ground, where there is an arch of iron throughwhich it is also necessary for the ball to be passed, and then the gameis completed. The contest is decided by the blows given to the ball inthe performance, and he who executes his task with the smallest numberis the victor. XVIII. Club-ball is a pastime clearly distinguished from cambuc orgoff, in the edict above mentioned established by Edward the Third,and the difference seems to have consisted in the one being played witha curved bat and the other with a straight one. Upon the eighth plateare two specimens of club-ball; the first exhibits a female figure in theaction of throwing the ball to a man

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