Ancient Games and Pastimes. 563 
was originally nothing more than a log of wood set upright 
in the ground, at which those who were learning the use of 
arms struck with their swords as at an imaginary enemy. 
The quintain after a time developed into the resem- 
blance of a human figure representing a Turk or Saracen 
in full armour bearing a shield on the left arm, and a sword 
or club in the right hand ; the figure was placed on a pivot 
and was so arranged that if the person who was practising 
did not strike it very dexterously it swung round and struck 
him a blow on the back of his head with the weapon it car- 
ried in its right hand. The competitors rode at the figure 
with lances and he was adjudged the victor who struck it 
oftenest. Stow in his “Survey of London,” speaks thus of 
the quintain. “This exercise of the quintain was practised 
in London as well in the summer as in the winter, but es- 
pecially at the feast of Christmas. I have seen a quintain 
set upon Cornhill by Leadenhall, when the attendants of 
Lords of merry disports have run and made great pastime, 
for he that hit not the board end of the quintain was 
laughed to scorn, and he that hit it full if he road not the 
faster had a sound blow upon his neck with a bag full of 
sand on the other end.” 
Boat tilting was a favourite pastime during the reign of 
Queen Elizabeth. That Sovereign was entertained at Sand- 
wich, by a tilting on the water, “where certain wallounds 
that could well swym had prepared two boats, and in the 
middle of each boat was placed a bord upon which bord 
there stood two men, and so they met together, with, cither 
of them a staff and shield of wood, and one of them did 
overthrow the other, at which the Queen had good sport.” 
The very children seem to have delighted in sports which 
mimicked the tilt and tournament. Strutt gives an en- 
graving of a picture in an old manuscript which represents 
two boys tilting at one another each of whom is sitting 
astride a kind of switch which he doubtless fancies to re- 
semble a horse, while the place of a lance is supplied by 
another switch or stick. 
(To be continued.) 
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