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