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. 231 bore some resemblance to those performed by the Roman gladiators rfor which reason the jugglers were sometimes called Gladiators,0 by theearly historians. It also appears that they instituted schools for teach-ing the art of defence in various parts of the kingdom, and especially inthe city of London, where the conduct of the masters and their scholarsbecame so outrageous, that it was necessary for the legislature to inter-fere; and, in the reign of Edward the First,p an edict was publishedby royal authority, which prohibited the keeping of such schools, andthe public exercise of swords and bucklers,q which had been practisedby day and by night to the great annoyance of the peaceable inhabit-ants of the city: the offenders were subjected to the punishment of im-prisonment for forty days; to which was afterwards added a mulct offorty marks/ These restrictions certainly admitted of some exceptions;for it is well known that there were seminaries at

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