Douch, Old Cornish Inns (1966)

1753 a very beautiful gold laced vest of leather was “to be wrestled for in Plymouth, organized on the green, a hat decorated of silver laced was to be cudgeled for, and a Holland shift to be run for by women”. In 1783, at the Pentecost games, a wrestling contest organized by a local Pub, Rose and Crown, offered a gold-laced vest on Monday and a silver cup on Tuesday.

Douch, H.L. (1966); Old Cornish Inns, and their place in the social history of Cornwall. Cornwall, Marazion.