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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
A History of the County of Warwick
… but many of the same amusements as well as quoits, bowls, duck-hunting, and bull-baiting were still popular among young …
A History of the County of Warwick
… waters being then added to the other prohibited sports. 72 Duck-hunting was still, about 1800, a popular sport around …
A History of the County of Durham
… as a shop by Messrs. Caldcleugh, belonged to Sir John Duck, and retains internally much characteristic work of the … with panelling, is a curious oil painting emblematical of Duck's career, containing views of the hospital founded by …
A History of the County of Durham
… and calling aloud to commit them to the stocks or even to duck them in the pant hard by. At last with much ado the two …
A History of the County of Durham
… orders of the court there were stocks, a pillory and a 'duck pool.' Owing to the disappearance of the borough records …
Magna Britannia
… 1614; John Lake, canon residentiary, 1678; and Nicholas Duck, Esq., barrister at law, 1628. It appears from the … monuments of John Acland, 1646; Margery, wife of Arthur Duck, and daughter of Acland, 1695; Mr. John Ley, 1805; and … which is called the Blue Maids' or Hele's Hospital; Robert Duck, Esq., in 1666 gave 50 l., Edmund Prideaux, Esq. gave …