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Dover’s Antient Meeting 1812 , On Thursday in Whit – week , on that highly renowned and universally admired spot called Dover’s Hill , near Chipping Campden , Glos . The sports will commence with a grand match of Backswords , for a purse of guineas , To be played by 9 or 7 men […]
William Somervile (he himself, and most eighteenth-century imprints, used the form Somervile, but an alternative spelling of ‘Somerville’ was also used) was the author of a short Homeric-style poem in celebration of the rural festivals of the period. The poem is a witness to wrestling and cudgelling being staged together at the same festival, which supports […]