Exeter Flying Post, Crediton Annual Wrestling advertisement (second notice, 1810)

CREDITON ANNUAL WRESTLING. THE prize of TWENTY GUINEAS will be WRESTLED for on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY the 19th and 20th days of June next, in a field adjoining the town. Ten Guineas of which will be played for, and distributed on the Tuesday, and the remaining Ten Guineas on the Wednesday; Five Guineas of which, on each day, will be given to the best man, and the remainder distributed among the other players getting shares, and such other players as distinguish themselves, in such proportions as the committee for managing the same may direct. And no man playing on the first day will be excluded from playing on the second. The play to begin on each day precisely at eight o’clock in the morning; and as an encouragement to players to attend early, the man getting the first share will be entitled to Half-a-Guinea extraordinary. Dated 9th May, 1810.