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Handwritten rules for Cudgel playing, from Wiveliscombe, Somerset. Articles of Play 1st best: The person that shall fairly break the greatest number of heads & save his own to receive 3 guineas & a half 2nd best: The person that shall fairly break the next greatest number of heads & save his own […]
The Harleian Manuscript (MS.3542) Also known by the names ‘Harley’, ‘Man yt wol’. Until 17 May 1715 when the Harleian 3542 Manuscript came into the hands of the owner (from whom it now takes its name), the manuscript was in the possession of clerics around Honiton. The manuscript, dated to around 1440-1450, was therefore around […]
John Carey’s fencing manuscript (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5540, ff.122-123) is a fascinating window into the kinds of practice which was taking place in England at the end of the 17th century, around Bristol in the South West of England. Despite its potential importance, “It has never been printed…”, commented Aylward (156, 110), “…and it […]
A Play based upon the true-story of Richard Peeke, from Tavistock, Devon. Peeke wrote his story in Three-to-One: Being an English-Spanish Combat (1625). This play appeared in Egerton MS 1994, a folio composite volume of plays. c.1620s-1640s. From the library of Lord Charlemont. Entries: CELM, Wikipedia. It appeared at ff. 30r-51r- HyT 5: Thomas Heywood, Dick of […]