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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re, by the earl of Hertford, after dinner about three oclock, ten ofhis lordships servants, all Somersetshire men, in a square greene courtbefore her majesties windowe,. did hang up lines,, squaring out the formeof a tennis-court and making a crosse line in the middle; in this squarethey0 played five to five with hand-ball at bord and cord as they tear meit, to the great liking of her highness/1 X. The balloon or wind-ball resembled the follis of the Romans ;e it 7 Table Talk, under the article Christmas, z The little mall ef the town «. Mr. Brand in his additions to Bourne. b Fullers Worthies, published H3o2, page 18&. c Being stript out of their dublets.A Progresses of Q. Eliz. published by Mr. Nichols, vol. ii. page 19. This circumstance occurred .a. b. 1591. c The follis was a large ball of leather, blown full of wind, and beaten backwards and forwards withthe fist, and seems to have been much played with. Polle decet puerds ludere, folle senes. Martial, Lib. iv. Epig. 45, «
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