Excerpt from Picture of the Manners, Customs, Sports, and Pastimes, of the Inhabitants of England: From the Arrival of the Saxons Down to the Eighteenth Century; Selected From the Ancient Chronicles, and Rendered Into Modern Phraseology Our ancestors are those who lived before us; and may be reckoned backward as far as Adam and Eve, who, as you my well know, were the first man and women. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.