zoo The Natural Hi/lory 



appointed for the execution of the City malefactors, where (lie hung 

 folong, that one of the by-ftanders fcrupled not to fay, that if 

 (he were not dead, he would be hanged {ox her : hereupon being 

 cut down (the gallows being very high) {Tie fell with fuch vio- 

 lence on the ground, that it would have been enough to have 

 been the death of many another per/on, only to have had fuch a 

 fall. Being thus cut down,fi>e was put into a coffin and brought 

 to the George Inn in Magdalen Parifi aforefaid, which when o- 

 pened, they found perfect life in her, as in the former: where- 

 upon breathing a vein, and putting her to bed with another young 

 wench by her, Jhe came quickly to hex felf and might no queftion 

 have lived alfo many years after ; but having no friends to ap- 

 pear for her, fie was barbaroufly dragg'd the night following by 

 the order of one Mallory then one of the Bayliffs of the City, 

 to Glccefier- green, and there drawn up over one of the arms of 

 the Trees, and hang 'd a fecond time till fhe was dead. 



2 1 . After what concerns women folitarily confider'd, who ac- 

 cording to the courtefie of England, have always the firft place, 

 come we next to treat of things unufual that concern women and 

 men'pywxXy together ; amongft which 1 think we may reckon ma- 

 ny ancient Cujloms ftill retained here, abolifh'd and quite loft in 

 moft other Counties : fuch as that of Runningzt the Quinten, Quin- 

 tain, or Quintel, fo called from the Latin \_Quintws~^ becaufe fays 

 Minftjeu , it was one of the Ancient Sports ufed every fifth year 

 amongft the Olympian games, rather perhaps becaufe it was the lafl 

 of the wmS-Aou or the quinque certamina gymnaftica, ufed on the 

 fifth or loft day of the Qlympick$. How the manner of it was then 

 I do not find, but now it is thus. 



22. They firft fet a Pofi perpendicularly into the ground, and 

 then place a (lender 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 ; againft this boardthey anciently rod wkh/pears ; now 

 as I faw it at Deddington in this County, only with flrong fiaves, 

 which violently bringing about the bago{ fand, if they make not 

 good fpeed away it ftrikes them in the neck or (lioulders, and fom- 

 times perhaps knocks them from their horfes ; the great defign of 

 the (port being to try the agility both of horfe and man, and to break 

 the board, which whoever do's,is for that time accounted Princep 



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23. For 



