... were about GO in number, and highly gratifying sight was;—afler which till dusky eve they amused themselves with crirket, stoolball, di op-handkerchief, and other rural games when night had set in they adjourned the New Inn, where the market room was kept ...

... after certain ceremonies ii dressed for a feast, at which the lady presides. Poor Robin, in his Almanack for 1675, speaks of stool-ball and barley-brake Whitsun sports. Carew, in his Survey Cornwall, says, Two young men of the parish are yearly chosen their ...

... drunk: thus there were bride-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, leet-aks, Midsummer-ales, Scot-ales, and several more. Stool-ball and barley-break were, alao, Whitsun sporta: in “ancient tymes.” too, Whitsun plays were acted: at Chester, they were twentyfive ...

... thtus there were3 bride-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, Icet-ales, Mlidstim- moe-ales, Scot-ales, and several more. Stool-ball andi barley- break were, also, Whitsun sports: in 11ancient tymes, too, Whitsun plays were acted: at Chester, thley were ...

... mansion ; when, having presented them to the guests there assembled, her ladyship dismissed ihem : when immediately cricket, stool-ball, drop handkerchief &c, became the order of the day, the band playing many lively airs, until five o clock, when tea and ...

... relVc-diment the body, and leave the least impression in the mind. which respect, shooting, leaping, pitching the liar, stool-ball, t\c..are rather chosen than dicing, carding, feefl. For the o.«e. That men would to use tbeir recreations and pastimes ...