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Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… in order to prevent them from seizing one another and wrestling. There are many young men who excel in this kind of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… archery, bicycling, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, and the Marathon Race (26 miles, 385 yards), the … walk, 32 Press of Hammersmith, 2nd in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, 33 and Slein of Hammersmith, 2nd in featherweight wrestling 34 securing four 2nd prizes between them. In …
A Survey of London
… Battailes on the water.; Leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling.; Dauncing, Fighting of Boars, bayting of Beares … ouerthrowne, and well dowked. Leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling. On the Holy dayes in Sommer, the youthes of this … exercised themselues, in leaping, dauncing, shooting, wrestling, casting of the stone or ball, &c. Matthew Paris.; …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… the abbot of Westminster and played a leading part in the wrestling match which in 1222 led to an outbreak of rioting …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… retourn Amsterdam, est appell la Luicte de Jacob, [ the Wrestling of Jacob,] ayant divers participants, est un grand …