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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Old English Sports, by Peter Hampson Ditchfield This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Old English Sports Author: Peter Hampson Ditchfield Release Date: December 10, 2004 [eBook #14315] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD ENGLISH SPORTS*** E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Richard J. Shiffer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14315-h.htm or 14315-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/3/1/14315/14315-h/14315-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/3/1/14315/14315-h.zip) OLD ENGLISH SPORTS Pastimes and Customs by P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; Rector of Barkham, Berks Hon. Sec. of Berks Archaeological Society, etc. First published by Methuen & Co., 1891 TO LADY RUSSEL THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH THE AUTHOR'S KINDEST REGARDS. PREFACE. Encouraged by the kind reception which his former book, _Our English Villages_, met with at the hands of both critics and the public, the author has ventured to reproduce in book-form another series of articles which have appeared during the past year in the pages of _The Parish Magazine_. He desires to express his thanks to Canon Erskine Clarke for kindly permitting him to reprint the articles, which have been expanded and in part rewritten. The Sports and Pastimes of England have had many chroniclers, both ancient and modern, amongst whom may be mentioned Strutt, Brand, Hone, Stow, and several others, to whose works the writer is indebted for much valuable information. The object of this book is to describe, in simple language, the holiday festivals as they occurred in each month of the year; and the sports, games, pastimes, and customs associated with these rural feasts. It is hoped that such a description may not be without interest to our English villagers, and perhaps to others who love the study of the past. Possibly it may help forward the revival of the best feature
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