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NORTH COUNTRY SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
Wrestling and Wrestlers:
Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring;
TO WHICH IS ADDED
Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting.
BY
JACOB ROBINSON
AND
SIDNEY GILPIN.
PREFACE.
Local Works on the Subject.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
ANCIENT GRECIAN WRESTLING.
WRESTLING IN JAPAN.
INDIAN WRESTLING.
WRESTLING MATCH IN TURKEY.
OLD ENGLISH WRESTLING.
WRESTLING IN SCOTLAND.
IRISH WRESTLING.
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND WRESTLING.
BIDDEN WEDDINGS.
MELMERBY ROUNDS.
LANGWATHBY ROUNDS.
JAMES FAWCETT
OF NENTHEAD.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON
OF CALDBECK.
"BELTED WILL."
WILLIAM LITT
OF BOWTHORN.
ADDENDA.
MILES AND JAMES DIXON
OF GRASMERE.
ROWLAND AND JOHN LONG
OF AMBLESIDE.
TOM NICHOLSON
OF THRELKELD.
FIRST ROUND.
SECOND ROUND.
THIRD ROUND.
FOURTH ROUND.
FIFTH ROUND.
WILLIAM MACKERETH
OF COCKERMOUTH.
HARRY GRAHAM
OF BRIGHAM.
JAMES SCOTT
OF CANONBIE.
ROBERT ROWANTREE,
OF KINGWATER.
WILLIAM DICKINSON
OF ALSTON.
GEORGE DENNISON
OF PENRITH.
JAMES ROBINSON
OF HACKTHORPE.
THOMAS RICHARDSON
OF HESKET-NEW-MARKET.
TOM TODD
OF KNARSDALE.
WILLIAM WILSON
OF AMBLESIDE.
JOHN WEIGHTMAN
OF HAYTON.
JOHN MC.LAUGHLAN
OF DOVENBY.
BULL BAITING.
BADGERS AND BADGER BAITING.
ADDENDA
MIDNIGHT CHASE OF A BULL BY PROFESSOR WILSON.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
INDEX.
G. AND T. COWARD, PRINTERS, CARLISLE.
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