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down, Southwark,* and Newmarket may come in 
and bait him before the ladies; but first, boy, go 
fetch me a bagpipe; we will walk the streets in 
triumph, and give the people notice of our sport.” 
The two following advertisements, published in the 
reign of Queen Anne, will serve as specimens of the 
manner in which these pastimes were announced to 
the public :— 
‘ At the Bear Garden in Hockley-in-the-Hole, near 
Clerkenwell Green, this present Monday, there is a 
great match to be fought, by two dogs of Smithfield 
Bars, against two dogs of Hampstead, at the Reading 
Bull, for one guinea to be spent: five let-goes out of 
hand; which goes fairest and furthest in wins all. 
Likewise there are two Bear-dogs to jump three 
jumps a piece at the Bear, which jumps highest for 
ten shillings to be spent. Also a variety of Bull- 
baiting and Bear-baiting ; it being a day of general 
sport by all the old gamesters ; and a bulldog to be 
drawn up with fireworks. Beginning at three 
o'clock.” 
A second advertisement runs thus :—‘‘ At William 
Well’s Bear-garden in Tuttle Fields, Westminster, 
this present Monday, there will be a green Bull 
baited, and twenty dogs to fight for a collar; and 
the dog that runs furthest and fairest wins the 
collar: with other diversions of Bull and Bear 
baiting. Beginning at two of the clock.”t 
* The Bear-garden at Southwark, with its “band-dogges or mas- 
tives,” three of which were able to hold down a bear, is briefly alluded 
to by Camden, vol. i, p. 434 (ed. Holland). 
+ Strutt’s “ Sports and Pastimes,” p. 237. 
