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Cornish Wrestling Motionmade, and Question proposed, (Jeremy Quin.) 8.31 pm. Scott Mann (North Cornwall) (Con). Full document available online, as per UK Government: Volume 661 No. 312 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Wednesday 12 June 2019
A legislative decree issued during the Synod of Exeter held at the Church of St. Mary Major. Clause XIII (De Cimeteriis) explicitly prohibits secular activities on consecrated ground to prevent “pollution” of holy sites through “dishonest games.” The text provides one of the earliest known ecclesiastical evidence of organised wrestling (“luctamina”) as a popular and disruptive social […]