I. Hand-ball an ancient Game--The Ball, where said to have been invented--II. Used by the Saxons--III. And by the Schoolboys of London--IV. Ball Play in France--V. Tennis Courts erected--VI. Tennis fashionable in England--VII. A famous Woman Player--VIII. Hand-ball played for Tansy Cakes--IX. Fives--X. Ballon-ball--XI. Stool-ball--XII. Hurling--XIII. Foot-ball;--Camp-ball--XIV. Goff;--Cambuc;--Bandy-ball--XV. Stow-ball--XVI. Pall-mall--XVII. Ring-ball--XVIII. Club-ball--XIX. Cricket--XX. Trap-Ball--XXI. Northen-spell--XXII. Tip-cat 91 BOOK III. PASTIMES USUALLY EXERCISED IN TOWNS AND CITIES, OR PLACES ADJOINING TO THEM. CHAPTER I. I. Tournament a general Name for several Exercises--II. The Quintain an ancient Military Exercise--III. Various Kinds of the Quintain--IV. Derivation of the Term--V. The Water Quintain--VI. Running at the Quintain practised by the Citizens of London; and why--VII. The Manner in which it was performed--VIII. Exhibited for the Pastime of Queen Elizabeth--IX. Tilting at a Water Butt--X. The Human Quintain--XI. Exercises probably derived from it--XII. Running at the Ring--XIII. Difference between the Tournaments and the Justs--XIV. Origin of the Tournament--XV. The Troy Game;--the Bohordicum or Cane Game--XVI. Derivation of Tournament;--how the Exercise was performed--XVII. Lists and Barriers--XVIII. When the Tournament was first practised--XIX. When first in England--XX. Its Laws and Ordinances--XXI. Pages, and Perquisites of the Kings at Arms, &c.--XXII. Preliminaries of the Tournament--XXIII. Lists for Ordeal Combats--XXIV. Respect paid to the Ladies--XXV. Justs less honourable than Tournaments--XXVI. The Round Table--XXVII. Nature of the Justs--XXVIII. Made in honour of the Fair Sex--XXIX. Great Splendour of these Pastimes;--The Nobility partial to them--XXX. Toys for initiating their Children in them--XXXI. Boat Justs, or Tilting on the Water--XXXII. Challenges to all comers 111 CHAPTER II. I. Ancient Plays--II. Miracle Plays, Dramas from Scripture, &c. continued several Days--III. The Coventry Play--IV. Mysteries described--V. How enlivened--VI. Moralities described--The Fool in Plays, whence derived--VII. Secular Plays--VIII. Interludes--IX. Chaucer's Definition of the Tragedies of his Time--X. Plays performed in Churches--XI. Cornish Miracle Plays--XII. Itinerant Players, their evil Characters--XIII. Court-Plays--XIV. Play in honour of the Princess Mary's Marriage--XV. The Play of Hock Tuesday--XVI. Decline of Secular Plays--XVII. Origin of Puppet Plays--XVIII. Nature of the Performances--XIX. Giants and other Puppet Characters--XX. Puppet Plays superseded by Pantomimes--XXI. The modern Puppet-show Man--XXII. Moving Pictures described 150 CHAPTER III.