[33] See W. F. Collier, “Wrestling,” in the Cornish Magazine, Vol. I, 1898.
[34] For a full account, most graphically written, and from which I have quoted, see Mr. Whitfeld’s Plymouth and Devonport, in War and Peace, Plymouth, 1900; also the Sporting Magazine for 1826–7; the Annual Register, 1826.
[35] Thornton (Rev. W. H.), Reminiscences of an Old West-country Clergyman, 1897.
[36] R. N. Worth, Transactions of Devonshire Association, 1876.
[37] Law Magazine, Vol. VII, p. 331.
[38] Sir W. Jones’ Works (1799), Vol. IV, p. 577.
[39] Mackenzie’s History of the Macleods, p. 431, says it was Anna Maria who married John Wilson. He does not mention her sister Isabella at all. Burke’s Landed Gentry of 1846 mentions Isabella but not Elizabeth.
[40] Whitfeld, Plymouth and Devonport, in War and Peace, p. 244.
[41] This is probably the second man shot when crouching against the wall mentioned by Andrews.
[42] Neither of these charges was investigated by the Commissioners, as beyond the scope of their inquiry, which was confined to the actual “massacre.”