. Rush-bearing: an account of the old custom of strewing rushes; carrying rushes to church; the rush-cart; garlands in churches; morris-dancers; the wakes; the rush. and caused themto be cleaned. All the figures have bells, and No. 6has the long streamers to his sleeves. The Moor isrepresented by figure 4. At Betley, in Staffordshire, there is a paintedwindow representing a set of morris-dancers, which isdescribed in Steevens Shakspeare (Henry IV., part1). There are eleven figures and a maypole : 1. RobinHood; 2. Maid Marian; 3. Friar Tuck; 4, 6, 7, 10,and 11. Morris-dancers; 5. The hobby-hors
. Rush-bearing: an account of the old custom of strewing rushes; carrying rushes to church; the rush-cart; garlands in churches; morris-dancers; the wakes; the rush. and caused themto be cleaned. All the figures have bells, and No. 6has the long streamers to his sleeves. The Moor isrepresented by figure 4. At Betley, in Staffordshire, there is a paintedwindow representing a set of morris-dancers, which isdescribed in Steevens Shakspeare (Henry IV., part1). There are eleven figures and a maypole : 1. RobinHood; 2. Maid Marian; 3. Friar Tuck; 4, 6, 7, 10,and 11. Morris-dancers; 5. The hobby-horse ; 8. Themaypole; 9. The piper ; and 12. The fool. Figures 10and 11 have lonof streamers to the sleeves, and all thedancers have bells, either at the ankles, wrists, or is a striking resemblance between these figuresand those in Israels engraving, and it would seem thatthe period of execution, as to both, was nearly thesame. Toilet, the owner of the window, thought itwas of the time of Henry VIII., c. 1535, but Douceattributes it to that of Edward IV., which appears more I > nice, Illustrations of Shakspeare, etc., p. 1SS5. pp. MORRIS-DANCERS, C. 1500. From a painted window at Betley. io4 RUSH-BEARING. likely to be the case. # The figures of the Englishfriar, maypole, and hobby-horse seem to be an additionof later date. Walpole, in his Catalogue of English Engravers,under the name of Peter Stent, describes a painting atLord Fitzwilliams, on Richmond Green, which cameout of the old neighbouring palace. It was executed byVinckenboom, about the end of the reign of James I.,and exhibits a view of the above palace. A morris-dance is introduced, consisting of seven figures, viz. :a fool, hobby-horse, piper, Maid Marian, and threedancers, the rest of the figures being spectators. Ofthese, the first four and one of the dancers Douce hasreduced in a plate from a tracing made by fool has an inflated bladder, or eel-skin, with aladle at the end of
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