Sir Thomas Parkyns’s wrestling

Sir Thomas Parkyns, a Nottinghamshire squire, was a keen wrestler who trained his servants and neighbours, showed them off in public and wrote a book called The Cornish Hug Wrestler. His monument shows him standing ready to wrestle and then thrown by Time. By his will he left a guinea to be wrestled for every Midsummer Day, and money for the bell ringers. Hone places the church at Bradmore; the monument is in the neighbouring church at Bunny.