The Sports And Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural And ...
The Sports And Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural And ...
Joseph Strutt, William Hone
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In the church warden's accounts for the parish of Lambeth for the years 1516 and 1616, are 0everal entries of hock monies received from the men and the wmno) for the church service. And here we may observe, that die contributions collected by the fisiir sex exceeded those made by the men.^ Hock-day was generally observed as lately as the sixteenth ceutury. We learn from Spelman that it was not totally di»- continued in his time. Dr. Flott, who makes Monday the prin- cipal day, has noticed some ...vestiges of i# at the distance of fifty years, but now it is totally abolished. • M. Pant Hist. Aug. sub anno 1 152. • Or Rom, the Warwickshire historian. EdiU Heanie, p. 105. » Gloss. uDder the tiU« Hock-day. ♦ Hist. Hampshire. • See a Memoir by the Rev. Mr. Jcnne. Archssologia. vol. vii. p. 224. « A. D. 100?. But the time of the year does not agree. St. Brice's-day \% a» 13th of November. ^ -» j ' Memoir, ut supra. CHAP. III. or THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND* .%1 XV^MAY- GAMES. The celebration of tbe May-gameSy at which we bare only glanced in a former part of the work,^ will require some en- largement in this chapter.
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