buckler-play

Updated: May 9, 2025

Plays. 'That all plays, bear-baitings, games, singing of ballads, buckler-play, or such-like causes of assemblies of people be utterly prohibited, and the parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. Feasting prohibited.

Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London