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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… chapel there, and after that, shall pass their time in the wrestling place, at the mayor's cost, and shall return thence …
Old and New London
… customs of Bartholomew's Fair. The first day there was a wrestling match in Moorfields, the mayor and aldermen being …
Old and New London
… of athletic exercises, in the shape of single-stick and wrestling matches, &c. The house stands on the very borders …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and affection through life.' 127 The popular sports were wrestling, fox-hunting and cockfighting. 128 A number of …
A Survey of London
… Westminster, moued by the young men vpon an occasion of a wrestling on Saint Iames day, 1221, and made worse by one …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
Old and New London
… theatrical booth, it seems to have been devoted rather to wrestling and singlestick than to purely Thespian purposes. …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… there was no further tilting, but the two Kings witnessed wrestling by Breton and English wrestlers and archery. The English were superior in wrestling, but the best wrestlers of Brittany were not …