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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: believe, derived from paille maille, a game somewhat analogous to
cricket, and imported from France in the reign of the second
Charles. It was formerly played in St. James's Park, and in the
exercise of the sport a small hammer or mallet was used to strike
the ball. I think it worth noting that the Malhe crest is a
mailed arm and hand, the latter grasping a mallet."--NOTES AND
QUERIES, 1st series, vol. iii. p. 351.]
In St. James's Park Samuel Pepys first saw the Duke of York
playing at "pelemele"; and likewise in 1662 witnessed with
astonishment people skate upon the ice there, skates having been
just introduced from Holland; on another occasion he enjoyed the
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