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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Street was called Shagbag, a name apparently derived from cock-fighting, 23 which was later applied to the area as a whole. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1580, all new freemen provided a leather bucket for fire fighting, or an equivalent fee, rising from 2 s. 6 d. in the … 1938 the council briefly took over responsibility for fire fighting from a volunteer brigade, setting up a joint … and retained it until 1835; it was responsible for fire fighting and played some part in street repair in the 18th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blandford was injured and Lord Charles Spencer Churchill, fighting stripped to the waist, was beaten back into the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Som. XXXIX. SW. (1885 edn.); W.I. Hist. Woolavington. For cock fighting. S.R.O., DD/V/BWr 37.6. Ibid. DD/V/BWr 37.3, 6. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… flying among clouds, two men in a Roman type of armour fighting one another, and a hammer and pincers lying on the …