Hoby, The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby (1551)

At Chasteubriant the French King shewed my Lord Marquess great plesure and disport, sometime in plaing at tenice, sometime in shooting, sometime in hunting the bore, somtime at the palla malla, and somtime with his great boisterlie Britons wrastling with my lorde’s yemen of Cornwall, who had much a do to gete the upper hand of them : and everie night ther was dansing in the great hall, and somtime musike in the King’s Privie Chamber. He shewed him the like at Nantz with skirraisshes sometime uppon the river with bottes and vesselles furnisshe warlike.

Hoby, T (1551). The travels and life of Sir Thomas Hoby, Kt. of Bisham Abbey, written by himself, 1547-1564. Available via Archive.org.