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Drayton, Michael, et al. (1636), Annalia Dubrensia: upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold-Hills, London: Robert Raworth. Available online via Folger Shakespeare Library, and archive.org.
The times at which our several distinct schools of wrestling became separated, and acquired for themselves a local habitation and a name, cannot be distinctly traced. But from the earliest the West-country wrestlers must have had a style of their own, and the North-countrymen one of a very different kind, while several others would be […]
An indirect reference to Devon Wrestling in reference to shin injuries and conditions of disease (not caused by Wrestling, but by other ailments): Now in Devonshire especially, a habit prevails of kicking shins in wrestling. In this gymnastic exercise, two men collar each other, and kick each other’s legs; whosoever throws his opponent first on […]