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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l I have given verbatim; and this I have done for his satisfac-tion, as well as my own, judging it much fairer to stand upon the au-thority of others than to arrogate to myself the least degree of penetra-tion to which I have no claim. It is necessary to add that the plates which constitute an essential partof this work, are not the produce of modern invention, neither do they k Part II. sect. 2. cap.4. i Spectator, vol. i. No, 57. A.D. 17H- INTRODUCTION. xlix contain a single figure that has not its proper authority. Most of theoriginals are exceedingly ancient, and all the copies are faithfully madewithout the least unnecessary deviation. As specimens of the art ofdesign they have nothing to recommend them to the modern eye, butas portraitures of the manners and usages of our Ancestors, in timesremote, they are exceedingly valuable, because they not only elucidatemany obsolete customs, but lead to the explanation of several obscu-rities in the history of former ages. January J801. g
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CONTENTS. BOOK I. RURAL EXERCISES PRACTISED BY PERSONS OF RANK. CHAP. I. Hunting more antient than Hawking... State of Hunting among the Britons.. .TheSaxons expert in Hunting... The Danes also... And the Normans... Their tyrannicalProceedings... The Progress of this Sport... Laws relating to Hunting... Huntingfollowed by the Clergy.. .The Manner in which they pursued this Pastime.. .TheEnglish Ladies fond of Hunting... The Privileges of the Citizens of London toHunt... Private Privileges for Hunting... Two Treatises on Hunting considered...The Names of Beasts to be hunted... Wolves not all destroyed in ^Edgars Time.Dogs for Hunting... Various Methods of Hunting.. .Terms used in Hunting.Times when to Hunt. p„„a . chap. n. Hawking practised by the Nobility... Its Origin not well known... A favourite amuse-ment with the Saxons... A romantic Story relative to Hawking.. .The Grand Fal-coner of France, his State and Privileges... Edward the Third partial to Hawking.. .The Ladies fond o

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