 | 1869 - 514 páginas
...cocks on Shrove Tuesday was one of the most barbarous sports ever introduced into this country ; and for a lengthened period it prevailed to a shameful...There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bears and bulls ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English... | |
 | 1869 - 514 páginas
...cocks on Shrove Tuesday was one of the most barbarous sports ever introduced into this country ; and for a lengthened period it prevailed to a shameful...There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bears and bulls; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 500 páginas
...Parliament against the Use of the Common Prayer, published in 1572, says, " If there be a bear or a bull to be baited in the afternoon, or a jackanapes to...shameful manner, in order to be present at the show." We are not, however, hereby to conceive, that these amusements were more sought after or encouraged... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 516 páginas
...during the reigns of Elizabeth and James, so much so that in a work published by Thomas Cartwright, in 1572, he says : " If there be an animal to be baited...There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bears and bulls ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English... | |
 | 1839 - 272 páginas
...Parliament against the use of the Common Prayer, published in 1572, says, " If there be a bull or a bear to be baited in the afternoon, or a jackanapes to...shameful manner, in order to be present at the show;" a complaint which, if true, shows happily a marvellous contrast to a Christian minister at the present... | |
 | 1842 - 528 páginas
...Parliament against the use of Common Prayer,' published in 1572, says, " If there be a bear or a bull to be baited in the afternoon, or a jackanapes to...shameful manner, in order to be present at the show." The theatre also continued a general source of amusement, but perhaps the following extract from the... | |
 | Guildhall Library (London, England), Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Jacob Henry Burn - 1853 - 308 páginas
...Prayer, 1572, says, " if there be a bear or a bull to be baited in the afternoon, or a jacka-napea to ride on horseback, the minister hurries the service...shameful manner in order to be present at the show." Holinshed relates that in 1586, on the reception of the Danish ambassador, " for the diversion of the... | |
 | Guildhall Library (London, England), Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Jacob Henry Burn - 1855 - 406 páginas
...Admonition to Parliament against the Use of the Common Prayer, 1572, says, " if there be a bear or a bull to be baited in the afternoon, or a jack-a-napes to...shameful manner, in order to be present at the show. " Holinshed relates that in 1586, on the reception of the Danish ambassador, at Greenwich, " for the... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 210 páginas
...Admonition to Parliament againft the ufe of the Common Prayer," — " If there be a bear or a bull to be baited in the afternoon, or a jackanapes to ride on horfeback, the minifter hurries the fervice over in a fhameful manner in order to be prefent at the... | |
 | William James Rolfe - 1896 - 304 páginas
...appear to have been. Thomas Cartwright, in a book published in 1572, says: "If there be a bear or a bull to be baited in the afternoon, or a jackanapes to...shameful manner, in order to be present at the show." It is on record that at a certain place in Cheshire, " the town bear having died, the corporation in... | |
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If there be an animal to be baited in the afternoon, or a jackanapes to ride on horse-back, the minister hurries the service over in a shameful manner, in order to be present at the show. 
