... Seven in the Evening ( their Matters being gone fome Time before) faw the Deceafed at Play, with fome Girls of the Place, at Stool-Ball, and faid to him, What does fuch a black Dog do playing with fo pretty Girls? to which the Deceafed replied, I am not fo ...

... 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 ...

... catalogue their amusements They dare challenge for throw the sledge To jump or leap over ditch or hedge ; To wrestle, play at stool-ball, or to run To pitch the bar, or to shoot off the gun To play at loggets, nine holes, or ten pins; To try it out at foot-ball ...

... abhorrence of the Jews. Brand mentions a lay amusement at this season, wherein both tansy and ballplay is alluded to At Stool-ball, Lucia, let us play, For sugar, cakes, or wine. Or for tansy let us pay, The loss be thine or mine. If thou, mv dear, a ...

... amusing sketch by James Payn, Threads and Thrums in Lower Life, by Dr. Wilson, and Early Forms of Cricket: The real stool-ball, however, was a double-wicket game, which the players used kind of bat, and dofended wickets, which, perhaps, originally ...

... to . nc _ minstrelsy of tuneful tabor, pipe, and horn ; the thr ?? mco ...

... cricket seems to bave evolved out of stool-ball and tip cat, or as it was called, cat and dog. From stool-ball was borrowed the primitive wicket—a stool, or cricket—whichS(perhaps) gave its name the pastime. From stool-ball, too, we have the custom of tossing ...

... Fobxr-jnness — Now, ts far as we can ascertain, cricket seems to have been evolved ont of stool-ball, and tip-oat, or as it was called, eat and dog. From stool-ball was borrowed the primi- tive wicket — a stool, or criclel — which (perhaps) gave ita name ...

... ’ by Andrew Lnng..vlnch. is & good hinnq in brief of the smo. Speaking of its antiquity he imagines Homer have known ** stool-ball,”” from which amusement cricket derived its origin. Another forerunner was the still popular game of ‘““tip cat.” Onme of ...

... Thus, at that early date, a distinction was already taken, even by a Puritan who was no sportsman, between cricket and stool-ball. Then we hear, I really don't know on what evidence — but all tbe cricket books give the story— of eriokitt played by ...

... to send their money. The prevailing amusements taken part in by the visitors the church-ales were dancing on the green, stool-ball, barley-break, rounders, hunting the fat lamb, foot-races, etc. The old ceremony, the Boy's Bailiff, prevailed ia Whitsun ...