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... learn from PiTtnr.ay, about fixrcen miles from Aberdeen, that on Thuriday lail, fome rung lads had met together to play at foot-ball; having ad - jourced to a public houie,a quarrel enfued h.:twixt two of them Milne and Wilfon both fatted from their feats ...

Published: Tuesday 05 April 1763
Newspaper: Sheffield Public Advertiser
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3075 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO THE PRINTERS OF THE SHEFFIELD REGISTEE

... THE SHEFFIELD REGISTER. Centlemsk* The Majority bting almoft two to one, and two to one ing odds at politics, as well at foot-ball, lam in favour of MAjUfTT. Whenever Minority turns about, I fide. STAIRS Sheffield, March TO THE PRINTERS OF THE SHEFFIELD ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1788
Newspaper: Sheffield Register
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1341 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

, • 116 .)• • ' SHEFFIELD, Mach I, 1791

... prifoners, the county allowance for whore bread would have been t6s. 7d. had they as heretofore remained unemproyed. A match at football bete/cc/1 twd vßiagei in the neighbourhood of Timolin in Ireland, has been attended with effeas particularly diftreffing ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1792
Newspaper: Sheffield Public Advertiser
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1175 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... at the Mansion-house, in the penalty of three shit lings and fourpence each, for profaning Ihe Lord’s Day, by playing at foot-ball. great Foot Race against Time. —We are informed that John Halton, who beat Beal at York, has engaged to run leu miles and ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1821
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1435 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LABOUR THE WEALTH OP NATIONS

... boxing, are unknown to the inhabitants of lids happy village. We dare say they indulge in the manly games of quoits, cricket, football. We should not surprised if in former times they shot the fallow-deer, which ran wild in the cliace of notfar-distant Loxley ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1824
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3802 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STo CorrwponUfnts

... farther punishment —and her own—maltreated— laughed at—desperate degraded ? See her—this is your success”- tbe sport ami football of every midnight ruffian I See her-this h the woman that forsook her home for injury-tt'hy, how ta tb.s ?-aud outrage for ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1824
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3053 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

semble in Bridge Street, and continue playing most of the day, without molestation, at pinch foot-ball, cricket ..

... semble in Bridge Street, and continue playing most of the day, without molestation, at pinch foot-ball, cricket, fives, &c., and to make as much noise and disturbance as to become quite a disgrace to the town, and to make it very un- pleasant, as well ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1827
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1036 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

• An iadcfatigcbl* scribbler of Anti-Catholic panapblrti

... body of gentlemen in possession of the middle room both end* being completely empty—so much as almost have admitted little Football Match to have been decided therein. the midst of the business, person was sent to the market-place, under supposition that ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1829
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4085 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ORIGIN OF CRICKETING

... foils, foot-balls, balloons, and running at the quintain but cricketing not amongs-t them. The first time the appellation mentioned an English writer, in a song D’Urfey, the fmt four lines of which run thus; “He was the prettiest fellow,” “at football or ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1829
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1012 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FACTS AND OCCURRENCES

... of parishes in England and Wales,” in which it is made an offence in any person to any kite, drive any hoop, or play at foot-ball, or any other game or games, to the annoyance of any passenger or traveller.” Dramatic Coptwright.— The Legislature has at ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1830
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1264 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

the peerage question

... WEEK. Biu.lt these dava the movement are stirring thass; great national question is no sooner started than it is kept like football, throughout the Kingdom, suf Being moating kicks to lbs end of the game, which is not permitted to be a long one, presided ...

Published: Tuesday 27 October 1835
Newspaper: Sheffield Iris
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

North Midlakd petition* lin favour of the line t omiatf thrumtfh SlwrlßeM, have received 3,500 signatures; and ..

... generations the transmitted knowledge of all the race, including that of the ministerial find who rejoiced in being the kicked foot-ball of George 11. And what says this sapient Solon of the people and their House? “O’Connell an execrable individual—“ Popish ...

Published: Tuesday 29 March 1836
Newspaper: Sheffield Iris
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5298 | Page: 2 | Tags: none