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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… He was the first that brought the noble science of Wrestling into a method, as appears by a book he wrote upon … he had erected many years, whereon is his own statue, in a wrestling pesture with Time." "Sir Thomas Parkyns, eldest son …
A History of the County of Northampton
… brooms and wooden-ware, and the last day was given up to wrestling and other forms of sport, but during the last years …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… a more modern pile of building. In the latter is a thick wrestling figure, intended to represent Sir Thomas Parkyns, … it. It might not be amiss, that he was a knight, loved wrestling and ringing, studied physic, wrote a book on the art of wrestling, had his coffin and monument made in his life-time, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 2 miles out of the town, where bull baiting, bowling, wrestling and cock fighting took place. He adds that on …
A History of the County of Somerset
… there was also horse racing and a 'foot hurdle race'. 117 'Wrestling, cudgel playing and single stick' contests …
A History of the County of Bedford
… possession, the next mention being found in 1283, when a wrestling match, attended by many from Dunstable, took place … of the heir of John Malherbe,' were both killed whilst wrestling, and the Annals of Dunstable give a very full …
A History of the County of Warwick
… St. Matthew's day, which 'was set up by Mobbish People for wrestling and other masculine Exercises about the year 1650'. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… John, son of Thomas under the Hull, had been killed at a wrestling match in Salome Wood in 1335. 37 In 1364, however, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… as an entertainment until the end of the 19th century with wrestling and singlestick and cudgel-playing. About 1810, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… arms of one of the Georges, and a wood-carving of Jacob wrestling with the angel, German work of the seventeenth …