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specifies ; if not to take the following cock or cocks 

 until the whole number of main and bye cocks are 

 weighed through 



After they are all weighed, proceed as soon as possible 

 to match them, beginning at the least weight first and 

 so on ; and equal weights or nearest weights to be 

 separated provided by that separation a greater 

 number of battles can be made; all blanks, that is 

 choice of cocks, are to be filled up on the weighing 

 day, and the battles divided and struck off for each 

 day's play, as agreed on, and the cocks that weigh 

 the least are to fight the first day, and so upwards 



At the time agreed on by both parties, the cocks that 

 are to fight the first battle are brought upon the pit 

 by the feeders or their keepers; and after being 

 examined to see whether they answer the marks and 

 colours specified in the match-bill, they are given to 

 the setters-to who, after chopping them in hand, give 

 them to the gentlemen who are called masters of the 

 match (who always sit opposite to each other), when 

 they turn them down on the mat ; and the setters-to 

 are not to touch them unless they either hang in the 

 mats, in each other, or get close to the edge of the pit, 

 until they have left off fighting, while a person can 

 tell forty 



When both cocks leave off fighting, until one of the 

 setters-to or a person appointed for telling the law 

 can tell forty gradually ; then the setters-to are to 

 make the nearest way to their cocks, and, as soon as 

 they have taken them up, to carry them to the middle 

 of the pit and immediately deliver them on their legs 

 beak to beak and not touch them any more until they 

 have refused fighting, so long as the teller of the law 

 can tell ten, without they are on their backs or hung 

 in each other, or on the mat ; then they are to set-to 

 again in the same manner as before, and continue it 

 till one cock refuses fighting ten several times, one 



