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Scriveners' company common paper 1357-1628
… grateful to Mr. J. M. L. Booker, who has been untiring in wrestling with knotty problems in Latin and French in the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… 53 Without hope of national assistance the problem of wrestling successfully with a debt, which was gathering its …
Survey of London
… called for the better control of 'luctas et alios ludos'wrestling and other games of a kind popular on the fringes of … north of the Charterhouse site, while Stow laments that wrestling had usurped the sacred plays at Skinners' Well. All …
Survey of London
… traditions of bear- and bull-baiting, cock-fighting and wrestling antedating 1600, and northern Clerkenwell had a …
The London eyre of 1276
… On one occasion, some Londoners went to Bermondsey for a wrestling match with the prior's men; a quarrel broke out …
A Survey of London
… in the fun on the frozen Thames, and the timehonoured wrestling at Bartholomew Fair. New-fangled customs and …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… Yet will not conceal his own private ends. Is tired with wrestling with this generation of vipers, and cannot hope to …