THE BEAR. 29 
Paul Hentzner, who, in the capacity of travelling 
tutor to a young German nobleman, visited England 
in 1598, has left a curious record of his journey in 
the form of an ‘“ Itinerary,” preserved to us through 
the instrumentality of Horace Walpole.* 
In this “Itinerary” the writer, after describing 
the theatres (p. 269), particularly mentions another 
place, built in the form of a theatre, which served for 
the baiting of bulls and bears. ‘They are fastened 
behind,” he says, “and then worried by great 
English bulldogs ; but not without great risque to 
the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth 
of the other; and it sometimes happens they are 
killed upon the spot: fresh ones are immediately 
supplied in the place of those that are wounded or 
tired.” 
When any Bear-baiting was about to take place, 
it was publicly made known, and the “ Bearward ” 
previously paraded the streets with his animal, to 
excite the curiosity of the populace, and induce 
them to become spectators of the sport. On these 
occasions the Bear, who was usually preceded by a 
minstrel or two, carried a monkey or baboon on his 
back. In “The Humorous Lovers,” the play above 
referred to, “Tom of Lincoln” is mentioned as the 
name of a famous Bear, and one of the characters, 
pretending to personate a “ Bearward,’ says; “I'l 
set up my bills, that the gamesters of London, Horsly- 
* “A Journey into England by Paul Hentzner in the year 1598.”’ 
First printed in the year 1757, and contained also in Dodsley’s 
“ Fugitive Pieces,” vol. il, pp. 233-311 (1765). 
