... perilled in defending that, said Sir William ; “ for tho battle, if there one, must fought in tho law courts, tin, have game foot-ball, and trouble no more about tho Common, The peasants smiled again, and Sir William, well mounted, rode oil amidst their cheers ...

... Exchequer have unanimously held that it was not Mr. Robertson but those very oiliccrs themselves who were the trespassers. Football —This ancient game which has been played Shrove Tuesday at Alnwick, from time immemorial until the last few years, is to ...

... Newbiggin Bay be adopted for the purpose, it would prove a most immense boon to the ports the Tyne and Wear. Football. —The ancient game of football, once so popular on the Borders, was played on Shrove Tuesday at Alnwick, in the spacious park on the opposite ...

... years age to pay a shilling, or out to the football. It was noted for its game-cocks, too—they were the best breed the Borders. May so, said the first speaker; but though should loath to see tbe foot-ball, or any other innocent game which keeps manly ...

... that of the famous John Robson, who, if he had lived in the days of Swinton, would have resigned to him the palm of the foot-ball; and his capability of enduring hunger and cold was not equalled by Jock Short, the servant of Wallace, and the sharer of ...

... marvellous transformations of his puppet men and women. Several games of cricket were played between rival schools; games at foot-ball and even 44 Aunt Sally had votaries; while in secluded nooks the more refined pastime of ...

... FOOTBALL DAY AT ALNWICK. Surove Tuesday being the most sotemn season of confes- sion immediately preceding the great Lenten Fast, was, in ancient times, a carnival of sports, most of which were of a very cruel and debasing character. One of those sports ...

... assemblage afterwards turned out into the field to puss the afternoon pleasure. The children ran races for lollypops ; r.nd football match, between the married and single, engaged all those older years. There was a tierce battle between the rival parties ...

... School, he had sent two beautiful Bibles as prizes which were given away that day to the most deserving of the scholars. Two footballs were also presented by Mr Patterson, juu., one of the teachers. After this began the stripping of the Christmas tree. The ...

... are l.ght-ha.red and of fair complexion Fastern's E en—Shrove Tuesday—when Tinkler Row sends forth its population to the foot-ball which is then played, the Douglasses may be distinguished from the other dark-complexioned families, in quence of most of ...

... FOOT-BALL DAY AT ALNWICK At Alnwick, Tuesday, the 9th ult., being Shrove Tuesday, the annual match at the manly and invigorating Northumbrian game of tootbal! was played, by permission of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in the pasture, or North ...

... their neighbourhood, or, were that wanting, any artifiCAniXhrroid popular custom in Scotland on Candlemass day was to hold a foot-ball match, the east end of a town against the west, the unmarried men against the married, or one parish against another. Ihe ...