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Excerpt from The Life of George the Fourth, Vol. 1: Including His Letters and Opinions, With a View of the Men, Manners, and Politics of His Reign
Some ridicule attended this proceeding, which was borrowed from German etiquette, and caricatures were published representing the children going through the ceremonies with their tops, kites, etc. They at last rebelled; and a story went that the boys had refused to leave their cricket, saying the company might wait.
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