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" ... common grounds, our archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling alleys, and ordinary dicing houses, nearer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games ; and there I leave them to take their pleasures... "
Pastimes and Players - Page 104
by Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 203 pages
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Walks Through Islington: Comprising an Historical and Descriptive Account of ...

Thomas Cromwell - Buildings - 1835 - 486 pages
...for want of roome to shoote abroad, creepe into bowling alleys, and ordinarie dicing houses, neerer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games*." To remedy which inconveniences, and give encouragement to this ancient exercise, James, in 1605, directed...
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Walks through Islington

Thomas Kitson Cromwell - Islington (London, England) - 1835 - 486 pages
...for want of roome to shoote abroad, creepe into bowling alleys, and ordinarie dicing houses, neerer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games V To remedy which inconveniences, and give encouragement to this ancient exercise, James, in 1605,...
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The Old Sports of England

Games - 1835 - 182 pages
...archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling-alleys and ordinary dicing-houses nearer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful game." If he so complained then, what would he do now ? If you feel inclined to join in the amusements...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and ...

Joseph Strutt - Games - 1838 - 500 pages
...our archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling-alleys and ordinarie dicwingbouses neer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games." ' He also tells us, that " Northumberland house, in the parish of St. Katherine Coleman, belonging...
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A survey of London

John Stow - London (England) - 1842 - 252 pages
...archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling alleys, and ordinary dicing houses, nearer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games ; and there I leave them to take their pleasures *. HONOUR OF CITIZENS, AND WORTHINESS OP MEN IN THE...
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A Survey of London

John Stow - London (England) - 1842 - 254 pages
...archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling alleys, and ordinary dicing houses, nearer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games ; and there I leave them to take their pleasures *. HONOUR OF CITIZENS, AND WORTHINESS OF MEN IN THE...
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Original memoranda,etc

Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...games. But now of late vears the wrestling is onlv nracIDEAS AND STUDIES FOR LITERARY COMPOSITION. 119 home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games, where Heave them to take their pleasures." — Ibid. This was one of the great uses of publick houses...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Original memoranda, etc

Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...shoot abroad, creep into bowling 1 Margin, John Mountgomorr. alley?, and ordinary dicing houses, near home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games, where Heave them to take their pleasures." — Ibid. This was one of the great uses of publick houses...
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Gymnastics, an Essential Branch of National Education, Both Public and ...

James Chiosso - Gymnastics - 1854 - 80 pages
...archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into bowling alleys and ordinary dicing houses near home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games." And in another place : — " Oh, what a wonderful change is this ! our wrestlings at arms is turned...
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The Ragged School Union Magazine, Volumes 5-6

Children with social disabilities - 1853 - 510 pages
...for want of roome to shoote abroad, creepe into bowling alleys, and ordinarie dicing houses, neerer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful games." Could that celebrated historian now revisit these localities — He Choonam of other days — how would...
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