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|Year=1598 | |||
|Headline=Youth Ball Games Widespread at London Schools. | |Headline=Youth Ball Games Widespread at London Schools. | ||
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|Text=<p>"After dinner all the youthes go into the fields to play at the bal…. The schollers of euery schoole haue their ball, or baston, in their hands: the auncient and wealthy men of the Citie come foorth on horsebacke to see the sport of young men."</p> | |||
|Text=<p>" | <p>Stow, John, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Survey of London</span> [first published in 1598]. David Block [page 166] gives the full title as <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Survey of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate, and Description of that Citie: written in the yeare 1598</span> [London]. Block adds that the term "baston" is described by the OED as a "cudgel, club, bat or truncheon."</p> | ||
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Text | "After dinner all the youthes go into the fields to play at the bal…. The schollers of euery schoole haue their ball, or baston, in their hands: the auncient and wealthy men of the Citie come foorth on horsebacke to see the sport of young men." Stow, John, Survey of London [first published in 1598]. David Block [page 166] gives the full title as A Survey of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate, and Description of that Citie: written in the yeare 1598 [London]. Block adds that the term "baston" is described by the OED as a "cudgel, club, bat or truncheon." |
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