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 . BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 1 13 which was supported in a case or sheath, by the means of two springs,but might be readily drawn out by the force of the stroke, and remainupon the top of the lance. The form of the ring, with the sheath
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 . BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 1 13 which was supported in a case or sheath, by the means of two springs,but might be readily drawn out by the force of the stroke, and remainupon the top of the lance. The form of the ring, with the sheath, andthe manner in which it was attached to the upright supporter, takenfrom Pluvinel/ are given upon the twelfth plate,2 and also the methodof performing the exercise. At the commencement of the seventeenthcentury, the pastime of running at the ring was reduced to a science;the length of the course was measured, and marked out according tothe properties of the horses that were to run: for one of the swiftestkind, as Pluvinel informs us, one hundred paces from the starting placeto the ring, and thirty paces beyond it, to stop him, were deemed neces-sary ; but for such horses as had been trained to the exercise, and weremore regular in their movements, eighty paces to the ring, and twentybeyond it, were thought to besufficient. The ring, says the
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