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“Baste-ball” was noted as one of the amusements enjoyed by large crowds of people from London's East End celebrating Whitsuntide in the Epping Forest of Essex. The author of a long piece in a London newspaper described how thousands of people deserted the East End to join public celebrations held in both the Epping Forest and Victoria Park, with the greatest number going to the former. There, he wrote, “In rings for kissing, at cricket and baste-ball, at racing and jumping, and here and there in courting, they amused themselves with an energy which spoke volumes for their contentment...”
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