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 III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 105 III. The quintain in its original state was not confined to the exerciseof young warriors on horseback: it was an object of practice for themon foot, in order to acquire strength and skill in assaulting an enemywith their swords, spears, and battle-axes. I met with a manu-script, written early in the fourteenth century, entitled The esta-blishments of Chivalry ;f the author of this tract, who appears to havebeen a man of science in the military tactics of his time, strongly re-commends a constant and attentive attack of the pel,g for so he calls thepost-quintain. The pel, he tells us, ought to be six feet in height abovethe ground, and so firmly fixed therein as not to be moved by thestrokes that were laid upon it. The practitioner was then to assail thepel, armed with sword and shield in the same manner as he would anadversary, aiming his blows as if at the head, the face, the arms, thelegs, the thighs, and the sides; taking care at all times t

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