loo T'he^SQamral Hiftorj 
appointed for the execution of the Citj rnalefa^ors^ where (lie hung 
folong, that one of the by-ftanders fcrupled not to fay, thatif 
(lie were not dead^ he would be hanged ^ov her : hereupon being 
cut down (the ^^7//oiri being very high) flie fell with fuch vio- 
lence on the ground, that it would have been enough to have 
been the death of many another perfon^ only to have had fuch a 
fall. Being thus cut down-, J/je was put into a coffin and brought 
to the George Inn in Magdalen Parifi aforefaid, which when o- . 
pened, they found perfeft life in her^ as in the former : where- 
upon breathing a z/ei«, and putting her to ^et/ with 2noiher young 
wench by her^ fie came quickly to her felfy 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 Bajlifs of the Citji^ 
to Glocefitv-green^ and there drawn up over one of the arms -of ' 
the Trees^ and hang'd a fecond time till (lie was dead. 
2 1 . x^fter what concerns women folitarily confider'd, who ac- 
cording to the courtefieof England^ have always the firfl: place, 
come we next to treat of things unufual that concern women and 
men joyntly together ; amongft which 1 think we may reckon ma- 
ny ancient Cuftoms ftill retained here^ abolifli'd and quite loft in 
moft other Counties : fuch as that of Runningzt zheQuinten^ Quin- 
tain^ o'c Quintet^ fo called from the L^j/iw [Qu^intU6~\ becaufefays 
Minfijeu °, it was one of the Ancient Sports ufed every fifth year 
amongft the Olympian games ^ rather perhaps becaufe it was the lafi 
of the Wf-raS-Ao/, ot the quinque certamina gjimnaflica^ ufed on the 
^fth or la/i day of the Olympickj' How the manner of it was then 
I do not find, but ;2oa^ it is thus. 
22. They firft fet a Poft perpendicularly into the ground, and 
then place aflender piece of Timber on the top of it on a /pindle^ 
with a board nailed to it on one end, and a bag of fand hanging at 
the other ; againft this board they anciently rod with /pears ; now 
aslfawitat Deddington in. this County^ only with firong fiaves^ 
which violently bringing about the of fand^ if they make not 
good fpeed away it ftrikes them in the neck or ftioulders, and fom- 
times perhaps knocks them from t}i\eithor[es ; the great defign of 
the /port being to try the agility both of horfe and man^ and to break 
the board, v/hich whoever do's, is for that time accounted Princefs 
7irventuti5, „ j^j.^j,. ^^^^^ , ■ : 
23. For 
