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... extraordinary En- tertainment was set on Foot for the Divertion of our polite Gentry, and what should it be but a Match at Foot-Ball, play'd by six young Women of a Side, at the Bowling Green : Cards, Dice, Concerts, Plays, Ball, &c. are the common Ente ...
... tending it, as 12 Men can weave in the Time. Bedford, Nov. 6. On Wednesday the 23d Instant; a moft obstinate and hard Match at Foot-ball was plaved near Great Harwood in this County, between 7 Men of the Village of Ranfe, and the like Number of Great Harwood; ...
... Palace for the Sale of Coffee Feu &c which his Clerk took Notice of with a Nos fumus er- ro tiar'is; Anglicc, All is hir at Football. On Sunday lift a Gentleman, well mounted, riding out to take tiie Air, wasattack'd by a finglc Highwayman on Deptford Common ...
... make a Pifture of fo extraordinary a Win- ter Profpeft. Booths are erefted on the Thames about Brentford, and Nine-pins, Foot-ball, (jc. have been play'd on it there. On Wednefday Night laft, about Eight o'Clock, as Mr. Barker, a Surgeon at Kenfington ...
... : Silks dyed, fcower'd, and dreft j Cloths cleaned, wet or dry. This is to acquaint all Ewers of that manly Exercife of Foot-Ball Playikc, THAT there wiil be Ten Mats play'd fcr on Bury Race-Ground, by Ten Men on a Side, on Saturday the 24th of May inftant ...
... An{weT from the Boy, and the Noife ftill 'continuing, he looked out of his Ham-- mock, and perceived the Tiger playing at Foot-ball with Quammo'sHead. The Caufe was this : The poor Boy had A- vi* ld^ Rty the P re c«ling Evening, cut his Neck, which happened ...
... in this County, that on Thurfday and FiiJay kit a ' great Number of People being affembled there, in order « to play a foot-ball Match, loon after Meeting formed « themfelves into a tumultuous Mob, and pulled up and ' burnt the Fences defigned for the ...
... Kilcx, 1 tlie 6th Day of Oftober, 1769, wi!| given Gratis, TEN GOLD-LACED HATS, one Guinea value each, to be play'd for at Foot-Ball twenty Men, Efltx agalnft Sutfolk.—No Ufa tlian twenty Men to play. The Ball to be put off at Four o'clock, the Hats not ...
... huzzaing for open month s imprifon-forefaid prifon— George and -convi&ed ofaiTtmbling irian in Holland afore faid and of foot-ball on the ill court fentenced them to fuffer vimprifonment in prifon aforefaid idJ'William Dickenfon John Oliver and John Rillion ...
... lame .manner, where they fhe fcfne.of blood j and fit enraged were tde jmphJiwc, they kicked about fome of their heada' Wie footballs. The recital the whole fliould make the blood recede in its channels; and yet thole who wilh to know the of it, referred ...
... I Monday the 25th of June, 1757, there yj be Eleven I'air ot Gloves, and Eleven Half Crownsi played for at Football ; Bgai»R Hundred ; and the next d-ay Lleven Parr valuable Gloves, to be played for at Cricket; Brad well and Jill-ngham, at the King's-Heai ...
... fcholar killed poor taylor at Windfor, by a blow on Friday laft. Fwt-tali. —Wednefday morning an extraordinary match of foot-ball took place at Dunllable a young gentleman took the hill for 2Q* guineas againft eleven the bed foot ball players in the country ...