"See the excellent brief biography in Kelly and Baradell, Iredell Papers III, xxv–xlvi, esp. xxv–xxviii."
"Almah, girl, virgin, singing-girl, hence he would translate Al – Alamoth shir (Psalm xlvi.) and Nebalim al-alamoth (I. Chron., xv. 20) by a “song for singing-girls” and “harps for singing-girls.”"
"Strutt, in his pioneering study of popular sports and pastimes, notes that the progress of refinement produces a general decline of "manly and spirited" bodily exercises, a result of the withdrawal of the nobility from practices that came to be seen as vulgar, and the disappearance of the public spaces once devoted to such exercises, which confined them to "common drinking-houses" (Strutt xlvi)."