Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-1740, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

EDITOR OF “THE SPORTSMAN’S MAGAZINE.” AUTHOR OF “THE BOOK OF FIELD SPORTS,” “ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE,” ETC., ETC.

VOLUME TWO

Edinburgh

JOHN GRANT

1906

TO

THE HONOURABLE ROBERT GRIMSTON,

THE CONSTANT AND LIBERAL PATRON AND UPHOLDER

OF

THE ATHLETIC SPORTS AND MANLY EXERCISES OF THE PEOPLE,