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Baring-Gould, Devonshire Characters and Strange Events (1908)

Abraham Cann Parkyns Poetry

Date: October 17, 1908
Source: Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
Type: Book

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Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 DEVONSHIRE WRESTLERS WRESTLING was the favourite sport in former days in Devonshire and Cornwall. Evelyn, in his Diary, speaks of Westcountrymen in London contesting in London against men of the North, and in all cases the former were the victors. And Ben Jonson, in his Bartholomew Fair, 1614, introduces a Western […]