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
" and Professor Wilson, similarity between, xxxvii
Pearson, Henry, great upholder of wrestling, 106, 161, 199
Pearson, Shepherd--a curious bet, 49
Peart, Cuthbert, and Jemmy Fawcett, 40
Peat, Thomas, Blencow, 24, 32, 194
Pocklington, Mr., and Keswick regatta, 179
Pooley, Ralph, Longlands, 35
Powley, Miss, "Echoes of Old Cumberland," 20, 27, 155
Puritan anathema against Cumberland and Westmorland, 2
Pythian games, ix
Relph, Rev. Josiah, quotation from, 242
Reminiscences of West Cumberland, by William Dickinson, 236
Richardson, John, Staffield hall, 130
Richardson, John, Caldbeck, and Scotch rebels, 158
Richardson, Lady, Lancrigg, 87
RICHARDSON, THOMAS, "THE DYER," 156
" and Tom Todd, 168, 169,
and William Wilson, 180
RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, Caldbeck, 43
" 118, and Dennison, 147,
and William Wilson, 183
Ridley, Tom, "the glutton," and Tom Nicholson, 112, 138,
and Weightman, 191
Robinsons of Cunsey, and Roan Long, 94
ROBINSON, JAMES, 149-195, 209
Robinson of Renwick, 212
" Jonathan, Allerby, 214
Robley, John, Scarrowmannock, 24
" Joseph, Scarrowmannock, 56
Rodgers, Jonathan, Brotherelkeld, 75
Routledge of "Clockymill," 189
ROWANTREE, ROBERT, 126-54
Salmon poaching in the Derwent, 113
Savage of Bolton, 143
Scotland, wrestling in, xxxviii
Scott, Sir Walter, at St. Ronans games, xxxviii
SCOTT, JAMES, Canonbie, 119
Scougal, George, Innerleithen, xl
Selkirk, John, Beckermet, throws "Clattan," 215
Skulls of Calgarth, 97
Slee, William, Dacre, 139, 152, 159
Snow storm of 1807, great, 133
Spedding, John, Egremont, 147
Stagg, John, blind bard, 15
Stamper, George, Underskiddaw, 110
"Standback," assumed name for trail hounds, 172
"Stangings" at Langwathby, 30
Steadman, George, Drybeck, 35
Stephenson, Thomas, and Jemmy Fawcett, 41
Stone Carr, ancient sports at, 8
Taylor, Benjamin, bone setter, 141
Thompson, Joseph, Caldbeck, 33
Thompson, Teasdale, High Rotherup, 23
Thwaites, William, and Professor Wilson, 177
Tinling, Dr., Warwick bridge, 189
Tinnian, Job, Holme Cultram, 47
Todd, "Brandy," Wigton, 48
TODD, TOM, Knarsdale, 167-160, 161
Trail Hounds, 172
Turkey, wrestling match in, xxi
Ward, William, North Tyne, 128
Watson, Jonathan, 184, 193, 194, 210
Weardale wrestlers, 136
WEIGHTMAN, JOHN, 186-160, 171
" and Tom "Dyer," 165,
and William Wilson, 184,
and "Clattan," 211
WESTMORLAND AND CUMBERLAND WRESTLING, ANCIENT, 1
"What's t'e gaen to mak' o' yon 'an, Tom?" 166
"When a bit iv a tailyer can thrā' me," 93
Whitfield, "Pakin," 38
WILSON, WILLIAM, 175-55, 88, 163
Wilson, William, "Wicked Will" of Grasmere, 177
Wilson, Professor, and Sir Thos. Parkyns, similarity between, xxxvii
" on the wrestling at Carlisle, 18,
fracas with Tom Nicholson, 104
" Midnight chase of a bull, 244
" 78, 81, 83
Windermere lake, wrestling on frozen surface of, 14
Woodall, John, Gosforth, 8
Wrestling on St. Bartholomew's day, xxv
" and riots near the Hospitall of Matilde, xxvi
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