12 JANUARY 1884, Page 15

TOURNAMENTS.

[To ME EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.'1

have read with much interest Mr. Freeman's letter on the subject of the introduction of Tournaments into England in your last issue, in which he finds fault with the statement amide by you that they were introduced at the time of the Edwards. But who shall decide when doctors disagree P In Mr. Green's history I find the following passage :—" He [Edward I.] was the first Sovereign to introduce the sham war- fare of the tournament into England, whence it had been rigidly prohibited by'his predecessors and forbidden by the Church."—I