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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… having 8 or 9 titles with a prayer of faith to show my wrestling with God till I prevailed. 3. A paper of verses …
Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… year, (1222) it befell, on Saint James's Day, that at a wrestling-match in London, such dissensions arose, that, in …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… at St. Mary's chapel there, and then went to the common wrestling-place, and saw such exercises performed there, …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I
… that gaol, that John killed himself by mischance while wrestling with Godfrey. Nov. 8. Eltham. To Malcolm de …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to sports and pastimes, especially to the miracle play, wrestling, and hurling; the practice of wrestling still prevails. Cornwall, as before noticed, gives …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the old one. The records of the decade show the justices wrestling with these ambitious schemes. Houses of correction …