Evelyn, Diary entry (1667)
19th February 1667:
I saw a comedy acted at Court. In the afternoone I saw a wrestling-match for £1000 in St. James’s Park, before his Maty, a world of lords and other spectators, ‘twixt the Western; and Northern men, Mr. Secretary Morice and Lo. Gerard being the judges. The Western men won. Many greate sums were betted.
Evelyn, John (various dates). Memoirs, illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn, comprising his Diary, from … 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between King Charles I and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas … 1641, and at other times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde … and Sir Richard Browne Ambassador to the Court of France … The whole now first published from the original mss. Edited by William Bray (1819).