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A History of the County of Lancaster
… to an annual festival called the Rout, a day occupied by sports being ended by a ball in the assembly rooms which were …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… conjugal love and affection through life.' 127 The popular sports were wrestling, fox-hunting and cockfighting. 128 A …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… W. Nicholls, Prestwich, 55. Ibid. 67. A programme of the sports in 1832 is reprinted. Ibid. 78. Subs. R. bdle. 250, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… illustrated in Nicholas Blundell's Diary. In the way of sports there were hunting, coursingthe Liverpool hounds …
Old and New London
… silver badge of the old Finsbury Archers. Strutt, in his "Sports and Pastimes," says: "There is no art more conspicuous …
Old and New London
… excites much local interest, being one of those many sports in which the English take much pleasure. Thomas …
Old and New London
… frost enabled the Londoners to carry on all manner of sports and trades upon the river. FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES IN … all the manner of the camp, and the several actions, sports and pastimes thereon, in memory of so signal a frost. … it. On the outside of this street were pursued the various sports of the fair, some of which are also shown in the …
Old and New London
… a thousand marks." The quintain, according to Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes," was originally a military exercise. It …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons