... Commons gave Leave to bring in a Bill to prevent the Mischiefs which frequently happen by throwing at Cocks, and kicking Footballs within the City of London and Westminster, and Bills of Mortality. ...

... Dublin, May 19. On Sunday last, as a Parcel of idle Fellows were assembled, to divert themselves at their usual Games of Foot-ball playing, and throwing of Stones, a Spectator passing cross, was struck with a Stone in the Back of the Head, of which he ...

... D ON. Letters from Chester advise, that at Six o' Clock Prayers at the Cathedral on Christmas Morning, the Mob kick'd a Foot-Ball in the Broad Isle at the Be- ginning of Divine Service, and about the Middle of it went into the Choir, put out the Candles ...

... his Palace ior Sale ot Coffee, Tea, &c. which hi 3 Clerk took Notice of with a Nos J'utnus ergo pares Anglice, All it fair Football, They wiite Paris* that the King, upon the Advice of his M milter Stare, M. Chauvclin, who i$ I men dan: ot the Province ...

... Yefterday there were feveral Booths on ths Thames at Brentford, and much Diverfion exercis'd thereon, as Skittle playing, Football, &c. ...

... of our Trade, is frozen so hard, that all manner of Diversions are daily pursued thereon, as Sliding, Jumping, Running, Foot-ball, Dressing of Meat, and selling all kind of L- quors in Tents, and is like a Fair by the Concourse of both Sexes. By Letters ...

... AGIST RATES of this Borough, that on Sh rove-Tuesday,; wheh will be the Third Day oi March licx t, : theie will be a Publick FOOTBALL-PLAYING in the faid Borough ; and that fuch has been lately Notifyed and Proclaimed jn Towns and Counties adjacent to the ...

... Cricket Matches, there were above 6000 People to fee a great Match at Foot-Ball ; and that for the Diverfion ofthe Populace, there was Cock- ing, Smock-Racing, Camping or Foot-ball, WreftlijJ and Cudgelling. ° An Affair of a very Angular Nature happened ...

... continuing fome Seconds, I quickly turned myfelf round, and faw a great Ball of Fire ( apparently about the Size of a common Football ) defcending from the Heavens. Its Direftion was N. E. its Motion niuch like what is vulgarly called the Shooting df a Star ...

... no Anfwer from the Boy, and the Noife ftill continuing, he looked out of his Hammock, and perceived the Tyger playing at Foot-Ball with Quamino's Head. The Caufe was this : The poor Boy had by fome Acci- dent, the preceding Evening, cut his Neck, which ...

... tranfported for 7 years week in Scotland Kil Mifs Bradley county very lady fortune On aflembled at Weft Haddon pretence foot-ball committed great the damage of and upwards breaking polls and new burnt deftroy’d laft inform’d march’d and taken rioters ...

... from Wefl-Haddon in this county, that Thurfday and Friday la ft a treat number of people aifeinbied there, in order play a Foot-ball match, foon after meeting formed themfelves into a tumultuous mob, and pulled and burnt the fences defigned for the inclolure ...