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Excerpt from An Account of the Tournament at Eglinton: Revised and Corrected by Several of the Knights; Illustrated by Representations of the Various Scenes, From Sketches Taken on the Spot
Introduction Origin of Chivalry; Traces of it among the Germanic Tribes in the Forest; among the Nations which overturned the Roman Empire its Character, a Military Institution, combined with Religion; Training of Knights; Pages, their Education, curious instance Squires, their high spirit Quintaine.
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