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 432 Hijiory of Dome/iic Manners garden is here again furrounded by a wall, with a poftern gate leading to the country, and we have the fame trellis fencings as before. It appears No. 270. A Lady gathering Herbs. to have been the ufual cuftom thus to enclofe and proteft the beds in a garden with a trellis fence. The various games and exercifes pradifed by people out of doors feem to have differed little at this time from thofe belonging to former periods, except that from time to time we meet with allulions to kinds of amufe- ment which have not before been mentioned, although they were pro- bably well known. Among the drawings of the borders of illuminated manufcripts, from the thirteenth century to the beginning of the fixteenth, we meet with groups of children and of adults, which reprefent, doubtlefs, games of which both the names and the explanations are loft; and fome- times we are furprifed to find thus reprefented games which otherwife we fliould have fuppofed to be of modern invention. One very curious inftance