Chapter I

I. Tournament a general Name for several Exercises--II. The
Quintain an ancient Military Exercise--III. Various Kinds of the
Quintain--IV. Derivation of the Term--V. The Water Quintain--VI.
Running at the Quintain practised by the Citizens of London; and
why--VII. The Manner in which it was performed--VIII. Exhibited
for the Pastime of Queen Elizabeth--IX. Tilting at a Water
Butt--X. The Human Quintain--XI. Exercises probably derived
from it--XII. Running at the Ring--XIII. Difference between the
Tournaments and the Justs--XIV. Origin of the Tournament--XV.
The Troy Game;--the Bohordicum or Cane Game--XVI. Derivation of
Tournament;--how the Exercise was performed--XVII. Lists and
Barriers--XVIII. When the Tournament was first practised--XIX.
When first in England--XX. Its Laws and Ordinances--XXI. Pages,
and Perquisites of the Kings at Arms, &c.--XXII. Preliminaries
of the Tournament--XXIII. Lists for Ordeal Combats--XXIV.
Respect paid to the Ladies--XXV. Justs less honourable than
Tournaments--XXVI. The Round Table--XXVII. Nature of the
Justs--XXVIII. Made in honour of the Fair Sex--XXIX. Great
Splendour of these Pastimes;--The Nobility partial to them--XXX.
Toys for initiating their Children in them--XXXI. Boat Justs, or
Tilting on the Water--XXXII. Challenges to all comers 111

CHAPTER II.

I. Ancient Plays--II. Miracle Plays, Dramas from Scripture, &c.
continued several Days--III. The Coventry Play--IV. Mysteries
described--V. How enlivened--VI. Moralities described--The
Fool in Plays, whence derived--VII. Secular Plays--VIII.
Interludes--IX. Chaucer's Definition of the Tragedies of his
Time--X. Plays performed in Churches--XI. Cornish Miracle
Plays--XII. Itinerant Players, their evil Characters--XIII.
Court-Plays--XIV. Play in honour of the Princess Mary's
Marriage--XV. The Play of Hock Tuesday--XVI. Decline of Secular
Plays--XVII. Origin of Puppet Plays--XVIII. Nature of the
Performances--XIX. Giants and other Puppet Characters--XX. Puppet
Plays superseded by Pantomimes--XXI. The modern Puppet-show
Man--XXII. Moving Pictures described 150