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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BOOK IV. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 351 Lotteries, in which toys and other trifling prizes were included to bedrawn for by children, were in fashion formerly, but by degrees, andespecially since the establishment of the State Lottery, they have beenmagnified into a dangerous species of gambling, and are very properlysuppressed by the legislature.0 XV. I have here attempted to give some account of the principalsports practised by the children of this country. I am fully sensiblethat the list will admit of very many additions, and also that the pas-times which are included in it have been subject to numberless vari-ations. I have, however, set down all that I can recollect, and de-scribed them according to the manner in which I have seen the largerpart of them performed. It only remains for me to enumerate a fewmore, which indeed are not well known to me, but may be elucidatedhereafter by some more able writer. At the bottom of the thirty-seventh plate we see a kind of a mockprocession,

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