Quote#World
The citizens and peasants have hand-ball, foot-ball, skittles or…
Quote byEdward Chamberlayne · 1616–1703
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Angliæ Notitia, 1676, 1704, p. 319-320; Cited in: Jeffrey L. Forgeng. Daily Life in Stuart England, p. 169-170.
English (original)
The citizens and peasants have hand-ball, foot-ball, skittles or nine-pins, shovelboard, stow-ball, golf, troll-madam, cudgels, bear-baiting, bull-baiting, bow and arrow, throwing at cocks, bowlings, quoits, leaping, wrestling, pitching the bar, and ringing of bells, a recreation used in no other country in the world.
— Edward Chamberlayne
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