Saturday, June 21, 2014

Sir Thomas after a due course of little-to-do and Bushby

Sir Thomas after a due course of little-to-do and Bushby

Sir Thomas after a due course of little-to-do and Bushby



From Westminster, Sir Thomas after a due course of little-to-do and Bushby, went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied mathematics as we gather afterwards for the chief purpose of making himself an accomplished scientific wrestler. At the then celebrated place of learning, "Students," he says, "even at the Universities, give the Exercise of Wrestling, and lie under a pecuniary Mulct for not appearing in the Summer evenings appointed for that Exercise."


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