Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger BaitingRobinson, Jacob
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Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting
Robinson, Jacob
Wrestlers; Wrestling
Forster Brothers, the, of Penton, 168, 193
Foxes and Badgers fraternising, 237
"Fwok sud aye be menseful, an' menseful amang fwok," 206
"Gwordie Maut" and Weightman, 192
Gibson, Alexander Craig, "Folk Speech of Cumberland," 97
Golightly, Thomas, Alston, 24, 129
Graham, Sir James--black mare, 187
Graham, James, and Weightman, 193, 199,
throws "Clattan," 210
GRAHAM, HARRY, 116-66
Grecian wrestling, ancient, ix
Gretna fight, the--Carter and Oliver, 173
Harrison, Thomas, Blencow, 10
" John, New Church, 54, 143
" John, Lowick, "Checky," 175
Herdwick sheep, 58
High street mountain, sports on, 11
Hodgson, Tom,--quarrel with Weightman, 197,
throws "Clattan," 210
Hogg, James, Ettrick Shepherd, xxxviii
Holmes, John, King of Mardale, 32
Holmes, John, tailor, 93
"Hoo 'at thoo let him hipe the' i' that stupid fashion?" 183
Howard, Mr. Philip, Corby Castle, and Weightman, 197
Howell, Edward, Greystoke, 184
Huddleston, Mr. Andrew, 10
"If thoo says Clattan isn't a gud russler," 182
Indian wrestling, xviii
Irish wrestling, xlvi
Irishmen, two, and Tom Nicholson, 111
Irving, George, 204, 210, 212
"I's nobbut shy--I's nobbut varra shy," 206
Jackson, Joseph, sickle maker, 176
Jameson, Samuel, Penrith, 54, 145, 159
" William, 34
Japanese wrestling, xii,
contrasted with Northern English, xvii
Jordan, John, Great Salkeld, 117
"Jwohn Barleycworn's ruin't mony a gud heart," 206
"Keg," the Keswick bully, 111
LANGWATHBY ROUNDS, 27
Liddle, John, Bothel, 171, 209
LITT, WILLIAM, 61;
and William Richardson, 50,
and Miles Dixon, 83,
describes Weightman, 195
_Little_, John, facetious letter on Carlisle ring, 196
LONG, ROWLAND, 90-51, 179
LONG JOHN, 96
--throws Tom Nicholson, 104
Longmire, Thomas, 93
Lonsdale, Earl of, patronizes the wrestling ring, 149
Lowthian, Isaac, Plumpton, 34
Lowden, Charles, challenged, 58
" John, Keswick, 67, 96, 104, 138, 145
MACKERETH, WILLIAM, 115-96,
and "Clattan," 215
"Marcy, Jwohn! is that thee?" 173
Marshall, the forgeman, at Sparkbridge, 176, 177
Mason, Isaac, Croglin, 29, 32, 182
Maughan, Isaac, Alston, 25
Mc.Donald, Anthony, Appleby, 33, 34
MC.LAUGHLAN, JOHN, 208-110, 153,
and William Wilson, 181,
and Weightman, 203
MELMERBY ROUNDS, 20
Michie, Robert, Hawick, xliii
Miles End athletic Border games, xlv
Morton, Thomas, Gale, 25, 33
" Joseph, Gale, 26
Mulcaster, Richard, on the art of "wrastling," 5
Muncaster bridge, "built by men from Grasmere," 86
Nanny, Louis, Haltwhistle, 171
Nicholson, Matthias, Penruddock, 11
NICHOLSON, THOMAS, 99
--thrown by Miles Dixon, 83,
match with Harry Graham, 117
Nicholson, John, 46, 100, 109
"Noo, lads, I've clear'd rooad for yee," 92
Olympic games, ix
"Owther the coo back, or the brass to pay for't," 205
Parker, John, Sparkgate, 54
" Joseph, Crooklands, 75
Parkyns, Sir Thomas, treatise on wrestling, xxviii,
rules and conditions, xxxii
Parkyns, Sir Thomas.
Some account of his life, xxxiii
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