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[1598-1622.] Shakespeare. ‘Merry Wives of Windsor,’ 
is 
“How does your fallow greyhound, sir ? 
I heard say he was out-run on Cotsall.” (B) 
Mr J. W. Gray, F.G.S., also kindly sent this reference, with the 
spelling ‘ Cotsale,’ and the following note from Ayscough’s Shakes- 
peare :—‘*‘ He means Cotswold, in Gloucestershire, where in the 
beginning of the reign of James the First, by permission of the King, 
Dover, a public-spirited attorney of Barton on the Heath, in Warwick- 
shire, instituted on the hills of Cotswold an annual celebration of 
games, consisting of rural sports and exercises. These he constantly 
conducted in person, well mounted, and accoutred in a suit of his 
majesty’s old cloaths; and they were frequented above forty years by 
the nobility and gentry for sixty miles round, till the grand rebellion 
abolished every liberal establishment. The games were chiefly 
wrestling, leaping, pitching the bar, handling the pike, dancing of 
women, various kinds of hunting, and particularly coursing the hare 
with greyhounds.” 
Dover’s Hill is in the parish of Weston-sub-Edge, near Chipping 
Campden, and about 1o miles from Stratford-on-Avon. 
1636. ‘Annalia Dubrensia, upon the yearly celebration 
of Mr Rob. Dover’s Olimpick Games upon Cotswold 
Hills,’ ete. [By Drayton, Ben Johnson, ef a.] 
Referred to in ‘ Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact History of all the 
Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in ... Oxford.’ 
[A. Wood.] Vol. II., p. 614. London, 1692. 
Referred to and quoted from in ‘ New History of Gloucestershire,’ 
S. Rudder, 1779, p. 24 
There is a reprint of the Annalia, edited by E. R. Vyvyan, published 
at Cheltenham, 1878. 
There is a paper on the same publication by F. A. Hyett, Proc. B. 
and Glouc. Arch. Soc., xiii. 103, 1889. He discusses the games, and 
refers to the spelling ‘ Cotsale’ as first appearing in the edition of 1622. 
1712. Robert Atkyns. ‘The Ancient and Present State 
of Glostershire.’ ‘‘ The east part [of Glostershire] is hilly 
... it is called Cofswould ... it is parted from the Vale 
by a long Ridge of Hills reaching from Camden, near 
Worcestershire, to Landsdown, near Somersetshire. 
The vale is quite a different CZzme from the Cotswoudd ; 
and if it be objected against the cold Air of Cofswozdd, 
that there are eight months Winter, and cold Weather all 
the Year besides; it may be here [in the vale] affirmed 
