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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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( 36 ) The amusements of the lower orders were not confined to the sight of executions. Bear-baiting had gone out of fashion ; but bull-baiting was performed twice a-week in London. At Stamford a maddened bull was hunted annually through the streets. Hunting ducks in ponds with a dog, or tying an owl to the back of a duck, which dived with terror till one or both were drowned. Cock-throwing, which consisted in tying a cock to a stake, and throwing sticks at it till it was killed, something after the manner of our ‘Aunt Sally,’ were the usual pastimes of the London roughs. Prize-fighting was not confined to men, for women indulged in boxing-matches. Cock- fighting was a gentlemanlike sport. It was introduced into Scotland by a fencing- master named Mackrie, who was looked upon as a benefactor for having started a new, cheap, and inno- cent amusement. German cocks were considered the best. The want of proper lighting in the streets was one of the chief causes of their insecurity, and the disgraceful habits of the people. Lighting was done by contractors, who agreed to pay the city 600I. a-year for the monopoly. They were bound to place a light before every tenth house, then only till mid- night, and on the nights only when there was no moon.
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