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to throw the cock in, and fight him in Sir 

 Thomas Jermin's name, while he betted his 

 hundred pounds against him ; the cock was 

 matched and, bearing Sir Thomas's name, 

 had many bets laid upon his head ; but after 

 three or four good brushes he showed a pair 

 of heels : everyone wondered to see a cock 

 belonging to Sir Thomas cry craven, and 

 away came the man with his money doubled " 



Pepys's reference to " the common rule " 

 that though a cock neither ran nor died, yet if 

 any man w r ould bet i o to a crown and nobody 

 took it, the game was given over, " clearly 

 shows that "pounding" was a well-established 

 cock law, early in Charles II 's reign, though it 

 is not mentioned in the laws quoted on p. 30 



The Code in which this rule is included, is not 

 to be found among contemporary publications ; 

 it was published, as already stated, in Heber's 

 Historical List of Horse Matches in 1751 



Pepys makes mention of three cock-pits 

 besides that in Shoe Lane. There was one in 

 Drury Lane, another in Aldersgate Street, and 

 a third, which he calls " the New Cock-pit," 

 by the King's Gate in Holborn. The White- 

 hall cock-pit is referred to also, but only as the 

 lodging of the Duke of Albemarle, with whom 



