30 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



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 w 7 hich 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 South wark, 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). 



t Strutt's " Sports and Pastimes," p. 237. 



