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... yours, which you imposed upon us, is as false as any we meet with in the f Lying Post. Whittle, Yours, in Essex STEPHEN FOOT-BALL ...

Published: Tue 04 Oct 1726
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Letter from Paris, Jan. if

... depends moft of our Trade, & frozen fo hard, that all manner of Diverfions ars purfued thereon, as Aiding, jumping, running, Foot-ball, drefling of Meat, and felling all kind of Liquors in Tents, and is like a Fair by tte Concourfe of People of both Scxqs ...

Published: Tue 22 Jan 1740
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEW BOOKS

... ' ~ can °f > J '-ption holds the place of Je/iJe ! i ibe . Cnli : f .° me rura ' profpefts, in which there . ' a game at foot-ball, and a hunt- W e L r reft of the piece is an encomium »ef, which nS ' as we living as dead ; a few Mr as °f the bold- U(J ...

Published: Monday 07 January 1754
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2181 | Page: 56 | Tags: none

From the WORLD

... Preference, than if he had been robbed by as many High- waymen upon Hounflow-Heath. Two to one, lays the Proverb, are Odds at Foot-ball ; and every one in the prefi-nt Caie ought to make proportionable Allowance for mucb greater Odds. But to do Honour to Cuckolds ...

Published: Tuesday 19 March 1754
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1506 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A letter of advice from the great Lord Burleigh, ivho madefo (hining a fig'ire in the -wife coun fei s

... may be daily in his fight ; orherwife, in this ambitious age, thou (halt remain like an hop without a pole, and be made a foot-ball for every infulting companion to fpurn at. VIII. Towards thy fuperiors be humble, yet generous; with thy equals tamiiiar ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1760
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1742 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The ABERDEEN JOURNAL,'

... accident happened in the parilh of Premnay, about fixteen miles from this place.——— Several young lads had met to play at foot-ball (being the day kept in the country for Faftcns-eve) and after their diverfion, adjourned to a publick houfe where a quarrel ...

Published: Monday 21 March 1763
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1606 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON

... tinue ro mi.f t men for his M jetty's fcrvice with great fuc- -cefs. Yefterday, while a number of fellows were playinj? at foot-ball, in Hyde' park, a nrefs gein^ was ftnt for, who fecured fa vcn teen of them. Laft night great dam ge was done to the final ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1771
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2194 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

I REL A N D

... but took no noticc of her piece of ornament for the head, which fome boys had got hold of, kicking about the ftreets as a foot-ball. From the Edinburgh Papersy May 29. 15. Tuefday the Veperable Afflembly bad under their confideration the caufe anent the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1771
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1577 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

To the PRINTER

... agiiiull root— ci , and this other fent him to the other Side, and from the other fide he was lent to this again — juil like a footbal ll. Yes, Mr Printer, the immortal and evailafting patriot was pelted about from member to member, Irom feat, to feat, from ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1773
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1079 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

To the Printer of ths Caledonian Mercury..SIR,

... The idea is blafphemous. Tt .dunenfis forgot both charity ar.d religion in hi: heat. Him who could tols rhe earth as a foot-ball, who could tear the fun from his centre, put out the light of the ftars with the waving of his l_and,|ftop the courfe of ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1786
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

JPolitical and aaf'l'ceuanm.u ~ Repofitow. ’ql'to the Printer o; the Aberdeen Journal. 01, ing’s Collegey Fam. ..

... l%erity of foulmouthed politics, vgich is fome relief, if Chriftmas bring no other. The Commercial ’l‘reat‘y is the favourite foot-ball, which aar “golitical cribes kick from one another with the ufual dexterity. From their play a bveftander can learn but listle ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1787
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2652 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

I. O N _• O NT,-—JW6

... diforderly perfons have made it a practice to ?? in the fieids near Merrion-fquare every Sabbath day, for the purpofe of playing football, wreitling &c. . Al- derman _ xihaw having received intelligence of thofe irregularities, proceeded thither on Sunday lad ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1787
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2389 | Page: 3 | Tags: none