 | Zachary Grey - 1754 - 424 pages
...cuftomary upon fuch occafions, in Oxford/hire. (Seft. 22, p. 204.) They firft fet a poft perpendicularly in the ground, and then place a flender piece of timber on the top of it, on a fpindle, with a board nail'd to it on one end, and a bag of fand hanging on the other ; againft this... | |
 | Banbury (Oxfordshire, England) - 1789 - 72 pages
...Olympicks. How the .nannerof it was then I do not find, but now it is thus. 22. They firft feta Poft perpendicularly into the ground, and then place a flender piece of Timber on the top of it on a fpindle, with a board nailed to it on one end, and a bag of fand hanging at the other ; igainftthis... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 852 pages
...Plot, " they first set a post perpendicularly ¡u the ground, and then place a slender piece of limber on the top of it, on a spindle, with a board nailed to it on one end, and n bag of sand hanging at the other. Against this hoard they antiently rode with spears; nuw, us 1 saw... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...described by Dr. Kennet : " They set up a post perpendicularly in the ground, and then placed a slender piece of timber on the top of it on a spindle, with a board nailed to it on one end, and a bag of iand on the other. Against thii board they rode with ipcars. Dr. Plot writes, that he saw it at Deddington... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1838 - 420 pages
...of Oxfordshire : 2 " They first set a post perpendicularly into the ground, and then place a slender piece of timber on the top of it on a spindle, with a board nailed to it on one end, nnd a bag of sand hanging at the other; against this board they anciently rode with spears. Now I saw... | |
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They *et up a post perpendicularly in the ground, and then placed a slender piece of timber on the top of it on a spindle, with a board nailed to it on •one end, and a bag of land on the other. 