Index

Aberystwyth Artillery Sports 33 Ajax-Lewis, Dr Ifor 144 Albemarle, Duke of 216 Albert, Prince 171 alcohol 21 Aled, Tudur 41 Alken, Henry 7 Almond, H. H. 239 Alnwick football 21-2, 56, 116 Alva games 150 Amateur Athletic Association 35, 204 Amateur Rowing Association 234 Amateur Swimming Association (ASA)

256-7 Amos, Henry 179 Anderson, Ada 204 Anderson, Bill 149 Andrews, Richard 144 angling 5, 22-4; coarse fishing 22, 23, 24,

67-9; fly-fishing 23, 24, 130, 131; game fishing 22, 23, 129-32; Greville Fennell 111; Izaak Walton 278; James Chetham 62; Scotland 238; Thomas Salter 236; Wales 113

Anne, Queen 26, 153 Apperley, Charles James 122, 124 Archer, Fred 184 Archer Thomson, J. 192 archery 4, 5, 25-30, 183; Grand

Wardmote 140; Royal British Bowmen 235; Scorton Silver Arrow 236; Scotland 30-2, 237; Wales 32; women 282

Arlott, John 6 Arnold, Thomas 1 arrow throwing 32 artillery sports, Wales 33-4

Ascham, Roger 27 Ashbourne football 34, 56, 116 Atherstone Shrovetide football 34-5 athletics 35-6, 63; GAA 126, 128;

gwylmabsant 202; Liverpool Olympics 180; Llandudno Grand Olympic Festival 180; Northumberland 198; Robert Barclay 40; Scotland 237, 240; Wales 277, see also individual events

Aubrey, John 252 Aunt Sally 36-7, 56, 194, 266 Austen, Jane 42, 233 Ayrshire Archers’ Club 31

backsword see cudgelling; singlestick bad 37 Badcock, John 217 baddin 38 Baden-Powell, Robert 5 badger baiting 5, 38, 179 badminton 42-3 Ballantine, Georgina 130 balloo 38 balloon 38, 143 Bambi fallacy 164 bando, Wales 38-9, 277 bandy 39-40, 60, 145, 199, 209 bandy cad 39 bandy-wicket 39 bar throwing 41 Barbour, John 264 Barclay, Captain Robert 40, 203, 218 bare-knuckle fighting 216-19; Daniel

Mendoza 185-6; Tom Cribb 79-80, 218, 223; Wales 223-4, see also prizefighting; pugilism

Page numbers in bold type indicate main entries

barley-break 40-1, 216, 258 barneying 287 Barron, Louis 7-8 Barry, Edward 217 baseball 41-2, 171-2, 209, 232, 233, 267 battledore and shuttlecock 42-3, 56 bear baiting 13, 43-4, 46, 161 beating the bounds 116 Beaufort, Duke of 37, 140 Becher, ‘Captain’ Martin 44 Belcher, Jem 79, 217, 218, 223 Beldham, ‘Silver’ Billy 82 Bell, C. C. 145 Bell, Ernest 179 Bennett, Arnold 216 Bentinck, Lord George 200 Berners, Dame Juliana 22, 144 Bettesworth, W. A. 240 Bibury Club 160 Bickerdyke, John 68 Biggar Park Games 238 billets 45 billiards 47, 272 bittle-battle 45, 251 Blacker, William 23 Blaine, Delabere P. 5, 42, 70 Blake, George 186 blow-point 45 boar baiting 45 Bodmin riding 45-6 Bold Hoghton, Henry 72 Book of Sports 46, 77 Boothly, Squire Thomas 122 Border Games 35, 150 boss out 182 Bourton Water games 47 bowls 11, 12, 46, 47-9, 100; church ales

63; indoor 265; marbles 181-2; pitch and toss 208; pubs 222; road bowls 12, 47, 209, 210, 229-31, 265; Scotland 237, 264-6; skittles 250

boxing see bare-knuckle fighting; prizefighting; pugilism

Braemar games 58, 149, 150 Brailsford, Dennis 7, 206 British Association for Shooting and

Conservation (BASC) 49, 246 British Field Sports Society 77 Broadridge, James 83 broadsword 49-50 Brocklesby Union Hunt Club 160 Broderick, Alan 82 Brodie, William 74 Bromyard, John 283

Brooker, Bill 190 Brooks, William Penny 35, 192, 193 broose 157 Broughton, Jack 103, 216-17 Broughton’s rules 50, 217, 218 Brown, Joe 190 Bruegel the Elder, Pieter 4 Buckle, Frank 51, 155 Bulkeley, William 56, 121 bull baiting 13, 46, 51-3, 58, 63 bull running 14, 53-4, 99, 281 bulleting 265 Bunyan, John 268 Burn, Tommy 148 Burns Inquiry 161-2, 165 Burns, Robert 157 Burrell, Peter 148 Butler, Martin 143 butter-making contests 54 buzz and bandy 54

caber tossing 11, 148 caiche 54 Cail, William 117-18 Cairnie, John 54-5, 92 calendar of sport 55-9 cambuck/cambuca 59 Cameron, A. A. 149 cammock 59 camogie 59 camp ball 59-60, 117 Campbell, Sir Guy 59 Cann, Abraham 288 Capes, Geoff 149 capie hole 60 Carew, Richard 168-9 Carr, Raymond 123, 124 carthorse races 152, 158 Casey, Phil 143 cashornie 60 casting the bar 61 casting the stone 250 cat and dog 61 catch 262 catch-as-catch-can wrestling 288 Catherine of Braganza 30 Cavanagh, John 114 Chapelle, Exida La 204 Charles I 46, 153 Charles II 30, 48, 105, 108, 153, 201,

255 Charles, Thomas 275 cheese rolling 11, 61 Cheny, John 154

Chester races 62 Chetham, James 23, 62 Chifney, Sam 62-3, 155 Chifney, William 62-3 chinnup 63 Chisholm, Captain 244 chock 182 chole 137 chulle 63 church ales 57, 63-4, 99 Clark, Douglas 286 Clarke, William 42, 84, 85, 223, 233 clay pigeon shooting 64-5 Clay Pigeon Shooting Association 65 Clayton, Michael 124 Cleveland, Duke of 72 closh 11, 47, 65 club ball 65-6, 171 cnapan 66-7, 120, 275 coal carrying 67 coarse fishing 22, 23, 24, 67-9 Coats, Sir Thomas Glen 290 cob 182 cock throwing 75, 263 cock-kibbit 56, 75 cockfighting 7, 13, 69-74, 161, 179; ban

99, 100; calendar 56, 57, 58; charms 74-5; and football 119; Northumberland 196; pubs 222; Scotland 74, 237; Shrovetide 248; Wales 275

Coleman, Thomas 44, 222 colf 137, 138 Collie, Norman 189 Company of Scottish Archers 26, 30 conkers 75-6 copsole pulling 76 coracle racing 76 Cotswolds Olympick Games 57, 76-7,

88, 89, 184 Cotton, Charles 7, 70 Coubertin, Baron Pierre de 1, 8, 193 Countryside Alliance 77-8, 246 coursing 78-9, 100, 164-5, 179, 184,

210; Northumberland 196, 197; pubs 222, 223; Scotland 238

Cowal Gathering 150 Cowper, William 151 Cox, Rhys 121, 262 Crabbe, George 72 crabsow 79 creag 79 Cribb, Tom 79-80, 218, 223 crick ball 80

cricket 57, 80-6, 126, 172, 209, 210; bad 37; cat and dog 61; church ales 63; club ball 65-6, 171; crick ball 80; cudgel 87-8; equipment 183, 184; literary references 116; public schools 219, 221; pubs 222, 223; Scotland 239, 240; stoolball 251; stowball 252; stubball 254; tip and run 267; trunket 272; Wales 86, 277; women 282

Cricklade Fair 87 croquet 87, 201, 240 Cross, William 40 cross-country running 35, 220 crossbow-shooting 12 crown green bowls 48 crying the mare 87 Cú Chulainn 166-7, 215 cudgel 57, 63, 87-8, 180 cudgelling 88-90 Cullen Games 151 Cuming, E. D. 5 Cunningham, John 190 curling 11, 90-4, 183, 210, 211; John

Cairnie 54-5; Scotland 237, 238, 264; summer ice 265

Cuthbertson, Dave 190 cwdwm braich 94 cwdwm cefn 94 Cwmglas, Catrin see Thomas, Catrin

dab-an-thicker 94 Daniel, William 94-5 Dark, Robert 85 darts 95-8 Davies, John 98, 204, 227 Davies, Lee 144 Davis, Bill 217 Davis Cup 261 Davis, Dwight Filley 261 Dawson, Matt 157 de Mowbray, Lady 146-7 decoy shooting 207-8 deer hunting 100-2, 113, 161, 162, 237 deer stalking 100-2, 113, 238 Defoe, Daniel 169 Derby, Earl of 69-70, 72 Derrick, John 80 Devonshire, Duke of 53 Dew, George 214 Diarmuid 167 Dibdin, Charles 103 Dickens, Charles 227 Didon, Henri 1 Digby, Everard 255

Dinnie, Donald 149 diving, high diving 147-8 dobbers 102 Dobson, Edmund 187 doddart 102 dog fighting 100, 102, 179, 222 dog racing 196, 197; greyhounds 100,

197; whippets 280 Doggett, Thomas 102-3 Doggett’s coat and badge race 102-3 Domenico, Angelo 111 Doubleday, Abner 42, 172 Dover, Captain Robert 57, 76, 77, 103 Downes, Bob 190 drag hunting 103-4, 162, 163, 165 Drake, Sir Francis 47 dry-fly fishing 131 Drysdale, William 225 duck baiting 104-5 Duddington Curling Society 91, 92 Duncan, Stanley 49 Dunning, Eric 4 D’Urfey, Thomas 39 dwile flonking 105, 171

eating challenges 105 Eden, Sir Frederick Morton 282 Edinburgh Society of Bowlers 48 Edward, Duke of York 144 Edward I 79, 110, 274 Edward III 47, 59, 69, 107, 143, 216 Edward IV 47, 141, 174 Edward VII 34, 134, 206 Edwards, Richard 114 Egan, Pierce 217, 228, 284 egg rolling 56, 106 egg shackling 106 egg and spoon racing 105-6 Eglinton, Earl of 58, 91, 156, 157, 158,

183, 266 Egremont Crab Fair 35, 106 Eisenberg, Christiane 8 Elcho, Lord 247 Elias, Norbert 4 Elizabeth I 43, 78, 108, 173-4, 281 Ellington, Henry de 117 English Bowling Association 48 English Bowling Federation 48 European Traditional Sports and Games

Association (ETSGA) 3 Evans, Margaret 107 Evelyn, John 43, 283

falconry 107-9, 183, 237

feat-stone throwing 109 fell running 109-10 fencing 13, 49-50, 110-11 Fennell, John Greville 111 Ferguson, Alexander 239 Fergusson, Robert 210 ferreting 111-12, 161, 228 field sports 112-13 Fife, William II 290 Figg, James 88, 111, 216 Finsbury Archers 26 Fire Ceremony 172 fishing see angling Fitzstephen, William 45, 51, 69, 115, 170,

248, 267 fives 63, 114-15, 143, 210, 219; rackets

227; stubball 254; Welsh tennis 262 fly-fishing 23, 24, 130, 131 foot racing 238, 239, 253, 279 football 1, 5, 10-11, 99-100, 115-18,

211, 248-9; Alnwick 21-2, 56, 116; Ashbourne 34, 56, 116; Atherstone Shrovetide 34-5; balls 183, 184; Bourton Water 47; calendar 56, 57; camp ball 59-60; Christmas 58; chulle 63; church ales 63; GAA 126, 127, 128; Gaelic 11, 128-9, 168; Hallaton bottle-kicking 142; hand ba’ 142; Haxey hood 145-6; and hurling 167; invented traditions 172; Kirkwall ba’ game 176; location 210; Northumberland 198; public schools 7, 219-20; pubs 222; Scotland 119-20, 237, 238, 239, 240; Sedgefield football 116, 241; terms 258; Wales 120-2, 275, 277; women 117, 119, 282

Forbes, James 188 Forby, Robert 39 Ford, Horace Alfred 29, 31 Forsyth, Alexander 247 fox-hunting 58, 113, 122-4, 161, 209,

210; alternative history 124-5; case against 162-3; case for 164; Countryside Alliance 77-8; hunt clubs 159; Melton Carnegie Museum 185; Wales 125

Frazer, J. G. 172 Froude, William 289

Gaelic Athletic Association 125-8, 143, 167

Gaelic football 11, 128-9, 168 Galloway, Earl of 150

Game Conservancy 133, 134, 135 game fishing 22, 23, 129-32 game laws 132 game rights 213, 245 game shooting 132-7 Games Movement 8 Gamlin, Brian 96 George III 255 George IV 30, 80, 149, 218 Gerald of Wales 32 Gillespie, George 238 Gilliver, Joseph 72 Gimcrack Club 137 Glenfinnan games 148 globalisation 2-3 Glyndwr, Owain 113 Goldwin, William 81 golf 58, 137-9, 209, 211; cammock 59;

equipment 183-4; knur and spell 177; Morris family 188; pall mall 201; Scotland 137-9, 237, 240; stoolball 251

Gomme, A. B. 60 Gotch, Frank 284 Gower, Earl 216 Grace, W. G. 85, 86 Graham, George 225 Grand National archery meeting 28-9, 31 Grand National steeplechase 44 Grand Wardmote 140 Grantham, Major William W. 252 Grasmere Sports 14, 35, 110, 140 greyhound racing 100, 197 grouse shooting 140-1 Grousset, Paschal 8 Guild of St George 26 Gully, John 217 gun dog trials 141 gurning 106 Guto Nyth Brân see Morgan, Griffith Guttmann, Allen 9 gwylmabsant 202-3, 274 gwylmabsantau 277 gymnastics 14-15

Haddow, D. 225 hailes 210 hainching 265 half-bowl 47, 141-2 Halford, F. M. 131 Hallaton bottle-kicking 56, 142 Hamilton, Hamish 189 Hamilton Jenkin, A. K. 168, 169 Hamilton, Murray 190

hammer throwing 11, 35, 148 hand ba’ 142 hand tennis 114 handball 10, 56, 119, 142-4, 183, 262;

caiche 54; GAA 127, 128; Northumberland 197; public schools 219

hare hunting 144-5, 161, 162, see also coursing

Harley, William 266 harpastum 115 Harris, David 82 harvest 87 Haston, Dougal 190 Hawker, James 213 hawkey 145 Haxey Hood 145-7, 172 Hazlitt, William 114, 227 hedge-laying 147 Heenan, John 218 Henry II 200 Henry III 107 Henry VI 47, 69, 272 Henry VII 107 Henry VIII 47, 69, 173, 225, 270; archery

26; casting the bar 61; falconry 107-8; fencing 111; jousting 173

Heywood, Mr 222, 225 high diving 147-8 high jump 35 Highland Games 11, 14, 35, 58, 110,

148-51, 157, 238 hitch-and-kick 150 Hobsbawm, Eric 171 hockey 5, 151, 172; baddin 38; balls

182-3; bando 38; bandy 39; buzz and brandy 54; cammock 59; chinnup 63; crabsow 79; jowls 174; not 199; scrush 241; shinney and whipping 243; shinnup 243

Hockin, John 169 Hogarth, William 72 Hogg, James 31, 150, 238 Hoggart, Richard 209 Holywell Hunt 160 Hone, William 53, 114, 273 hop, skip and jump 149, 152 horse events 152-3 horseracing 7, 8, 152, 153-5, 165,

209-10, 211; alcohol 21; articles of 33; calendar 57, 58; Chester races 62; Chifney family 62-3; Frank Buckle 51; George Osbaldeston 200-1; Gimcrack Club 137; hunt clubs 159-60;

Kiplingcotes Derby 175; Martin Becher 44; prizes 184; pubs 222; Scotland 155-9, 237, 238-9; training 270; Wales 276, 279

hound trailing 104, 140 Hughes, Thomas 61 Hulley, John 180 hummie 159 Humphreys, Richard 185 hunt clubs 159-60 Hunter, Andrew 225 hunting 5, 112-13, 160-1, 179, 213; case

against 161-3; case for 163-5; deer 100-2, 113, 161, 162, 237; drag 103-4, 162, 163, 165; hare 144-5, 161, 162; Melton Carnegie Museum 185; mink 186; otter 201, see also fox hunting

hurling 57, 58, 166-8, 183, 209; camogie 59; Cornwall 117, 168-70; GAA 126, 127, 128; poc fada 215

Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd 174 Hywel Dda, Laws of 32

ice hockey 39 ice skating 170-1, 183 Inanimate Bird Shooting Association

(IBSA) 64-5 indoor bowls 265 industrialisation 98-9, 100, 118, 126, 276 Inglis Clark, William 189 invented traditions 171-3 Ireland 209, 210, 230; GAA 125-8;

Gaelic football 129; handball 143-4; hurling 166-8

Itzkowitz, David C. 123, 124

Jackson, John 185, 218 Jacques, John 87 James I of England (James VI of Scotland)

69, 103, 247; Book of Sports 46, 77; horseracing 153, 210; tennis 260, 261

James IV of Scotland 47, 264 James V of Scotland 262 jauping paste-eggs 106 javelin 11, 35 Jefferies, Richard 213 Jenkins, Tom 284 jingling 173 Jockey Club 157, 159, 160 John of Gaunt 53 Johnson, Tom 217-18 Jones, Griffith 275 Jones, Owen Glynne 192

Jones, R. 171 jousting 56, 173-4, 266-7, 268-9 jowls 174 jumping 174, 194, 224-5 Jusserand, Jean-Jules 7

Kane, Michael 148 kayles 47, 65, 141, 174-5 Kellett, Brian 190 Kennel Club 141, 242 kibel and nerspel 175 kick shins 175, 224, 288 Kilwinning Papingo 26, 30-1 Kiplingcotes Derby 175 Kirby, Charles 23 Kirkwall ba’ game 56, 119, 120, 176 Kite, Oliver 131 Knight, Bruce 204 Knight, William 188 knitting competitions 176-7 knur and spell 100, 175, 177-9, 267;

arrow throwing 32; billets 45; dab-an-thicker 94; pubs 223; trap ball 271

Koch, Konrad 144 kook 179 korfball 5

lamping 181 Langmuir, Eric 190 lark singing 179 Laud, Archbishop 252 Lawlor, John 143 lawn billiards 272 Layton, Charles 283 League Against Cruel Sports 162, 179 leaping pole 179-80 Lee, Harry 185 Legh, Thomas 72 Lever, Sir Ashton 26 Ligowoski, George 64 Lillywhite, Fred 84 Lillywhite, William 83, 84, 85, 184 Lipton, Sir Thomas 290 Liverpool Olympics 180 Llandudno Grand Olympic Festival 180 Llanwenog football 121 Lloyd, Robert 120 Llwyd, Dafydd 41 lobber 180-1 localisation 2-3 loggats 181 Lonach Society 149 long alley 181

long bullets 181 long jump 35 Longmire, Thomas 286 Lord, Thomas 82-3 Lowenthal, David 3 lurchers 181

McHardie, Allister 149 Machin, Joe 178 Machyn, Henry 41 MacInnes, Hamish 190 McIntosh, Peter 4 Mackay, Robert 227 Mackenzie, Bill 189 McLaren, Alistair 189 McLean, John 190 MacLeod, Donald 40 Madog ap Owain Gwynedd 113 maggot racing 171, 223 Maguire, Joseph 2 Mahony, Harold Sigurson 260 Malkin, Benjamin 274 Mallalieu, Anne 165 Mammal Society 162 Manton, Joe 183 marbles 47, 56, 181-2, 195 March, Bill 190 March, Earl of 183 Marsden, Tom 83 Marshal, William 251, 269 Marshall, Jimmy 190 Martin, Sam 185 Mary, Queen of Scots 47-8, 108, 119,

137 Marylebone Cricket Club 83, 84, 85, 210 Masters of Foxhounds Association

(MFHA) 123, 124 material culture 182-4 May games 57, 63 Mayne, John 247 maypole 57 Melly, Charles 180 Melton Carnegie Museum 185 Mendoza, Daniel 185-6, 218 merelles 195 Merry, James 157 Mersey Archery Society 28 Mewett, P. 270-1 Meynell, Hugo 122, 124-5 Middleton, Iris 124 Middleton, William 120 Miller, Captain James 50 mink hunting 186 Minshull, John 82

Mitchell, William 48, 266 model yachting 186-7 Molinet, Jean 259 Molyneaux, Tom 79, 218, 223 Moore, Fred 178 morettes 195 Morgan, Griffith (Guto Nyth Brân) 152,

187, 277 Morgan, Gwenllian 54 Morganwg, Iolo 279 Morpeth Olympic Games 187, 197 morris 195 Morris family 188 Mott, James 207 mountaineering: Scotland 188-91; Wales

191-2 mowing matches 192 Much Wenlock Games 35, 173, 192-4 Muir, Peter 31 Munro, Hugh 189 Murphy, Fr John 143 Murray, Bill 189, 190 Murray, John 30 Murrayfield Highland Games 150 Museum of Welsh Life 194 Mynn, Alfred 85

nacks 194 Naid Berc 194 Naid Stond 194 Naismith, William 189 National Baseball League 42 National Darts Association (NDA) 96, 97 National Rifle Association (NRA) 147,

239, 240, 247 Neidio Tair Naid 194 Newbery, John 41-2 Newland, Richard 81 Nicolson, Alexander 188 Nimlin, Jock 189 nine holes 195 nine men’s morris 195 ninepins 11, 65, 141, 195 Nixon, Thomas 85 Norfolk, Duke of 78 Northumberland 195-9, 230 Northumberland, Duke of 72, 73 Northumberland, Earl of 42 not 199 novelty events, Wales 199 Nyren, John 66, 171, 172, 223 Nyren, Richard 82

O’Hara, Mike 190

Old Hawking Club 108-9 Oliver, George 225 Onion Fayre 200 orange rolling 56, 200 Ormiston, James 266 Osbaldeston, George 200-1 otter hunting 201 Owen, Elias 274 Owen, George 66, 67, 275

pall mall 87, 201 pancake making 248 pancake racing 202 Paris, Matthew 232, 269 parish sports, Wales 202-3 Parkyns, Sir Thomas 184 Parr, George 84 pat ball 38, 143, 281, see also balloon;

handball Patey, Tom 190 pattern days 57 Peck, W. 147 pedestrianism 203-4, 270; Morpeth

Olympic Games 187; Northumberland 196, 197; Wales 204-5, 277

peg and stick 205, 267 peg-fiched 205 Pegg, B. 172 pelota 259 penny cast 205-6 penny prick 206 pennystanes 264 Pepys, Samuel 43, 72, 170, 203, 209 pig sticking 5 pigeon racing 197, 206-7 pigeon shooting 196, 207-8, 223 Pigg, Herbert 240 Pilch, Fuller 83 Pilkington brothers 188 pitch 208 pitch and toss 208-9, 250 pize ball 209, 273 Place, Francis 186 places for sports 209-11 ploughing matches 211-12, 237, 239 poaching 212-15 poc fada 215 point-to-points 152, 160, 165 Pointer, G. P. 206 pole-vault 35, 179-80 popinjay shooting 12, 30-1 Portland, Duke of 157 potshare bowling 196, 197

Powell, Foster 203 prison bars 215, 216 prisoner’s bars 41, 216, 258, 281 prizefighting 21, 216-19; Broughton’s

rules 50; Daniel Mendoza 185-6, 218; pubs 222-3; Tom Cribb 79-80, 218, 223

public schools 7, 210, 219-22; fives 114-15; hockey 151; rackets 228; rowing 233; Scotland 239-40; swimming 256

pubs 210, 222-3; darts 95-7; knur and spell 177, 178; Northumberland 196, 197; quoits 225, 226; rackets 227; Scotland 265

puff and dart 95, 96, see also darts pugilism 57, 100, 210, 216-19; Daniel

Thomas 263; pubs 222-3; training 270; Wales 223-4; women 282, see also prizefighting

puntgunning 280 purring 224 Puw, Huw 224-5

quarterstaff 225 Queensberry Rules 218 quintain 56, 279 quoits 11, 56, 181, 225-7; kook 179;

loggats 181; Northumberland 197-8; penny cast 205; pitch and toss 208; pubs 222, 223; ringing the bull 229; Scotland 225, 226, 264

Rabelais, François 6-7 rackets 227-8 Raeburn, Harold 189 Raleigh, Sir Walter 43 Ranger, Terence 171 Rankine, W. J. Macquorn 289 ratting 228 Reeves, Compton 257 regattas 14, 229, 234, 235 Rennie, John 222, 225 Richard I 107, 269-70 Richard II 107, 143, 225, 251, 270 Richards, William 205 Richmond, Duke of 81, 82 riding for geese 229 rifle shooting 239, 240, 247-8 ring taw marbles 182 ringing the bull 229 road bowls 12, 47, 209, 210, 229-31, 265 Roberts, Huw 231 Robertson, Allan 149, 188

Robson, Robert 155 rolling pin throwing 253 roly-poly 141 rook shooting 231 roost shooting 207, 208 rope splicing 231 Ross, Edward 239 rough shooting 49, 132-3, 207-8, 231-2 round table 232 rounders 171-2, 232-3; baseball 41; first

reference 42; pize ball 209 Rowe, Arthur 149 rowing 8, 14, 210, 221, 233-4; Doggett’s

coat and badge race 102-3; regattas 229; Scotland 235

rowley-powley 266 Roxburgh, Duke of 157 Royal British Bowmen 26, 28, 32, 235,

282 Royal Caledonian Curling Club 92-3,

211 Royal Caledonian Hunt Club 156, 159,

160 Royal Company of Archers 27, 28, 30 Royal Foresters 27 royal tennis 183, 260-1, 262 RSPCA 44, 52, 53, 73, 99, 179 rugby 57, 172, 211, 220, 277; camp ball

59; cnapan 66; hurling association 168; purring 224; Scotland 240

running 35, 57; alcohol 21; at the ring 266, 269; cross-country 35, 220; fell running 109-10; Griffith Morgan 187; Highland Games 149; John Davies 98; Northumberland 198; Scotland 237, 238; stroke bias 253; women 281, see also pedestrianism

Rutter, Joseph 197

Sabbatarianism 46, 80, 99, 125-6 sack racing 235, 238 St Fillans Games 148, 238 St Ronan’s Games 31, 150, 238 Saint-Clair, Georges de 8 Salter, Thomas Frederick 236 Sassoon, Siegfried 124 Sawyer, Frank 131 Sayers, Tom 218 Scaino, Antonio 260 Schelenz, Karl 144 Scorton silver arrow 26, 236 Scotland 209, 210, 236-41; archery 30-2,

237; bowls 237, 264-6; cockfighting 74, 237; football 119-20, 237, 238,

239, 240; golf 137-9, 237, 240; horseracing 155-9, 237, 238-9; hurling 167; model yachting 186-7; mountaineering 188-91; quoits 225, 226, 264; rowing 235; shooting 238, 239, 240, 246-8; tennis 237, 240, 261-2; throwing games 264-6; yachting 240, 289-90, see also Highland Games; shinty

Scott, Walter 28, 31, 115, 148, 150, 172, 238, 254

Scottish Mountaineering Club 189, 191 Scrope, William 212-13 scrush 241 Sedgefield football 116, 241 Sempill, Robert 157 Shadbolt, Leslie 189 Shakespeare, William 183, 195, 203,

216 Shapter, Thomas 288 Sharpe, James 29 Shaw, John 89, 217 sheep shearing, Wales 241-2 sheepdog trials 242 shinney and whipping 243 shinnup 243 shinty 138, 150, 167, 209, 211, 240,

243-5; hailes 210; hummie 159; New Year’s Day 56, 58

shooting 12, 112-13, 213, 245-6; BASC 49; clay pigeon 64-5; game 132-7; grouse 140-1; gun dog trials 141; pigeon 196, 207-8, 223; popinjay 12, 30-1; rooks 231; rough 49, 132-3, 207-8, 231-2; Scotland 238, 239, 240, 246-8; wad 58, 247; wildfowling 49, 247, 280-1

shot put 35, 148, 250 Shrovetide 248-9 shuttlefeather 42 Sidney, Sir Philip 41 Silver, George 49 Simion, J. F. 35 Sinclair, Sir John 21 Singh, Rabinder 163 singlestick 88-90 Skeggs, James 114 Skinner, John 119 skipping 249 skittles 11, 57, 183, 209, 250; Aunt Sally

36; closh 65; kayles 174; long alley 181; long bullets 181; ninepins 195; pubs 222, 223; Scotland 264-5; wallops 278

Skues, F. E. M. 131 Slicher van Bath, B. 4 Small, John 82, 85 Smith, George 81 Smith, Len 182 Smith, Robin 190 smock races 203, 238, 281 Southey, Robert 75 Spalding, A. G. 42 spangie 250 Spence, Kenny 190 Spring, Tom 217 squash 227, 228 stagging 250 Steadman, George 286 steeplechasing 58, 152, 156, 160, 211,

222, 239 Stephenson, H. H. 84 stone drilling 250 Stone, Sammy 97 stone throwing 250-1, 253 stone-putting 12 Stonehenge (J. H. Walsh) 250 stoolball 45, 56, 63, 251-2, 273, 282 stowball 252-3 strike up and lay down 253 stroke bias 253, 281 Stroud throwing contests 253 Strutt, Joseph 4, 7, 117, 171, 253-4, 264,

267; club ball 65-6; knur and spell 177; prisoner’s bars 216; skipping 24; stoolball 251; trap ball 271

Strype, John 117 stubball, Wales 254 Stubbes, Philip 72 Stubbs, Philip 43 Studley, David 216 Suffolk and Berkshire, Earl of 5 summer ice 265 Surtees, W. S. 210 swimming 237, 254-7, 281 sword and buckler 257-8

tag 41, 258 Tait, John 149 Tait, William 149 taplasau haf 258 Tarporley Hunt Club 159-60 Tempest, Sir Henry Vane 72 tennis 258-61; Scotland 237, 240, 261-2;

Wales 262-3 tenpin bowling 195 Tetbury woolsack race 171, 263 Thibault, J. 8

Thomas, Catherine 263 Thomas, Daniel 263 Thomas, Llewelyn 109 Thompson, E. P. 36 Thornton games 150 thrashing the hen 263 three holes 182 three men’s morris 195 throwing games 11-12, 264-6 tilting 13 tilting at the quintain 174, 266-7, 269 tip cat 267-8 tip and run 267 Tiso, Graham 191 Tissié, Philippe 8 toad in the hole 12 tournaments 268-70, 281 tourney 269 Townsend, John 204 Toxophilite Society 26, 29 training 270-1 trap ball 66, 223, 253, 267, 271, 282 Trevarthen, William 169 Trevor-Roper, Hugh 2 triple jump 35, 149, 152 troap 271 troco 272 trotting 152, 272 trunket 272 tug of war 13, 63, 149, 249, 272-3 Turner, Ned 223-4 tutt ball 273 twmpathau chwarae 258

Underdown, David 60, 117 urbanisation 118, 126, 276

Victoria, Queen 27, 54, 92, 149, 199 Vives, Juán Luís 259 Voigt, Charles Adolph 261 volleyball, balloon 38

wad shooting 58, 247 waggles 268 wakes 57, 64, 105 Wales 273-8; archery 32; artillery sports

33-4; bando 38-9, 277; bar throwing 41; cricket 86, 277; cwdwm braich 94; cwdwm cefn 94; fishing 113; football 120-2, 275, 277; fox-hunting 125; grouse shooting 140-1; handball 144; high diving 147-8; horse events 152-3; jumping 174; mountaineering 191-2; mowing matches 192; Museum of

Welsh Life 194; novelty events 199; parish sports 202-3; pedestrianism 204-5, 277; prison bars 215; quoits 226; regattas 229; sheep shearing 241-2; stubball 254; swimming 257; tennis 262-3; wedding games 279; yachting 290

Walker, Richard 68 walking: alcohol 21; Robert Barclay 40,

see also pedestrianism Walkinshaw, Thomas 264 wallops 278 Walsh, Pat 190 Walton, Izaak 22-3, 113, 278-9 Wanostracht, Nicholas ‘Felix’ 85 Warenne, William Earl of 53 water quintain 267 Waterford, Marquis of 185 Waters, Willie 264 Watson, George Lennox 289, 290 Waymark, Thomas 81 Weatherby, James 154, 155 Webb Ellis, William 172 Webb, Matthew 256 Wedderburn, David 119 wedding games, Wales 279 Welsh feats 279-80 Whillans, Don 190 whippet racing 280 White, Piran 162 Whitgift, John 255

wildfowling 49, 247, 280-1 Willes, John 83 William III 153 Williams, Reverend Roger 147 Willsher, Edgar 84 Wilson, Thomas 41 Windham, William 52 Wingfield, Walter Clopton 260-1 Wisden, John 85 women 5, 6, 281-2; archery 25, 28, 29,

31; football 117, 119, 282; hunting 122, 123; pedestrianism 203-4, 205; stoolball 251; swimming 256-7; Welsh sport 276

Woodmen of Arden 26-7, 140 Worcester, Earl of 173 wrestling 13, 56, 57, 184, 209, 283-4; of

breeches 289; Cornwall 284-6; Cumberland 286-7; cwdum braich 94; cwdum cefn 94; Devonshire 287-8; Lancashire 288-9; Morpeth Olympic Games 187; purring 224

Wright, Richard 286 Wynman, Nicolas 255

yachting 209, 235; regattas 229; Scotland 240, 289-90; Wales 290

yards of ale 290 yetlins 265 Yorkshire Archers 27 Young, Arthur 211