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 . anner, and treated the Londoners withmuch insolence,b which they resented by beating them soundly; theking, however, was incensed at the indignity put upon his servants, andnot taking into consideration the provocation on their parts, fined th
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 . anner, and treated the Londoners withmuch insolence,b which they resented by beating them soundly; theking, however, was incensed at the indignity put upon his servants, andnot taking into consideration the provocation on their parts, fined thecity one thousand VI. We may here observe, that the rules of chivahy, at this time,would not admit of any person, under the rank of an esquire., to enterthe lists as a combatant at the justs and tournaments; for which reason,the burgesses and yeomen had recourse to the exercise of the quintain,which was not prohibited to any class of the people: but, as the per- ? Stephanides Descrip. Lond. a MS. Royal Lib. marked 2. B. vii. b Calling them cowardly knaves and rascally clowns. Some have thought, these fellows were sentthither purposely to promote a quarrel, it being known that the king was angry with the citizens ofLoudon for refusing to join in the crusade. Strypes edit, of Stows Survey, &c. c Matthew Paris. Hist. Angl. sub. an
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