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Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… said to be in 'fine sporting country', and hunting and shooting continued throughout the 19th, 20th, and early 21st …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… houses were sites of village entertainment. A pigeon-shooting contest was held at the Bull in 1778, 8 while the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… when, by the 1870s, local boys acted as beaters during the shooting season. 13 During the late 19th and early 20th …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Corps set up in 1859. The marquess of Anglesey provided a shooting range at the north end of Burton meadow. 7 When the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Edward VI
… French fired upon them, which was returned, and a general shooting from the pieces on both sides was maintained. All …
Calendar of Early Mayor's Court Rolls
… Furbisher. O.E.D. A kind of cross-bow or catapult used for shooting stones. Sheriff, A.D. 1298-9. Cf. p. 109, and 109 …
A Survey of London
… in the yeare 1560. on the fift of Julie through the shooting of a Gun, which brake in the house of one Adrian …