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A History of the County of York North Riding
… with scales, good and evil spirits, Sagittarius, two wrestlers, beasts, devils, &c. The south porch is a late, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… had sent for two masons from St. Paul's who were great wrestlers. An affray in Chelsea Fields between a drunken …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… numerous train; thirty gentlemen, and fifty archers, with wrestlers, musicians, and tennis players. 114 The largeness …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… bitterness. One day, after the jousts were ended, the wrestlers of France and England advanced to the front, and … beautiful pastime, he remarks, for there were many strong wrestlers present; 17 and because the king of France had not brought any wrestlers from Brittany, the English carried off the prize. …
Old and New London
… still, celebrated on Good Friday. The chief and most noted wrestlers are "North Country" men, though the prizes are mostly open to all comers, and the Cornish wrestlers are almost equally celebrated. They are under the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… great cheer, with devices of singing, dancing, playing, wrestlers, &c. At her going thence she knighted Sir Francis …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 'Half Moon' near the Great Bridge, 20 and the beautiful 'Wrestlers' 21 in Petty Cury, have since been destroyed, … from which stage coaches started were the 'Red Lion', the 'Wrestlers', the 'Blue Boar' and the 'Rose': Cantabrigia …