After the sweating, the cock had a clay's 

 rest; and then he was given Cheats": the 

 trainer took the bird out upon some enclosed 

 plot of grass, and showing him a common cock, 

 carried in his arms, enticed the game-cock to 

 give chase, now and again allowing him a 

 stroke at the common bird. He was kept 

 running up and down in this way for half an 

 hour 



This routine, sparring, sweating and heating 

 was continued for six weeks ; three days' rest 

 being allowed before he was brought into the 

 cock-pit 



It is a tribute to the soundness of this 

 author's training- maxims that more than eighty 

 years afterwards (in 1697) T r e g o n we 1 1 

 Frampton transcribed them almost verbatim 

 as the rules which from long experience he had 

 found the best 



Frampton was master of the race horses and 

 game-cocks to King William III and his 

 successors 



In Markham's clay, cock-fighting had not 

 reached the state of organisation to which it 



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attained later. Cocks were not matched bv 



