The Character And History of the book of Sports, 1618-1643. a Paper Read At a Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society On February 9, 1905
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It was not unlike, in principle, to the church fairs or sales organized and con- ducted by ladies in many of our parishes at the present The last entertainment on Sunday granted by the king was the Morris Dance. This, as the name implies, was a Moorish dance, the word Morris being derived from Morisco, signi- fying a Moor. It was performed by a single person, and usu- ally accompanied by castanets with which the dancer marked the time. It was a favorite entertainment among the Moors and Spaniar...ds, and in the seventeenth century was exceed- ingly popular in England. It will be observed that the foregoing games or sports allowed on Sunday were all of them athletic in their char- acter, and were well suited to develop physical energy and muscular strength ; and the king himself in his proclamation era, morris dancers, and other devices, for pastime all the day long, and toward evening they had stage plays and bonfires in the Streets." Vide Stow's Survey of London, 1598, ed. 1842, p. 38. expresses the belief that these exercises would make the bodies of the common people " more able for war " whenever he or his successors should have occasion to use them.
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