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tongue and Ant mis hand, are dangerous to consort 

 with ; for they seldom resort to any meeting, but 

 either they doe hurt, or receive it. So as, even in 

 those tolerable Recreations of Horse-races, Cockings, 

 Bozulings, &c., you shall ever see those throw one 

 bone or other to make differences amongst men of 

 qualitie and ranke, wherin they will be sure to be in- 

 terested as Seconds, if not as principall Agents. My 

 advise there is," he continues, " that you avoid their 

 company, as disturbers of the pulicke peace, interrupters 

 of all honest Recreations, and profest enemies to all 

 civil societie. But wee have insisted too long upon 

 them, therefore wee will returne to our former dis- 

 course." 



"The division of the Common betwixt Doncaster and 



W'heatley [occurred in] 161 1. 



"Miller states that, '1611, Hugh Childers,* mayor. In 



this year a division was made in the Common 



Doncaster. 

 betwixt Doncaster and Wheatley. 



'" 1614, June, IS. 6d. were paid to Anthony Hogg for 

 makinge the waye at the horse race.' There is every proba- 

 bility that there would be a wooden stand of some ,„,^ 



'' 1614, 



description at that period, not for the public, but 



for officials ; as would appear from the rude representations 



in the woodcuts of early race-lists. In one, a stand at the 



winning post contains the judge— with a flag in his hand — 



and two men, probably the stewards ; and at the distance post 



a smaller box or stand, with a man holding a flag. 



* " Carr House. About half a mile from the town stands this old 

 mansion, which for several generations was the residence of the family 

 of Childers. The house was built in 1604, by Hugh Childers, Esq., who 

 was Mayor of Doncaster in 1604 and 161 1, and was the ancestor of the 

 Childers. Leonard Childers, Esq., bred at Carr House the race-horse 

 known as Flying Childers." — " Hist. Notes," p. 1 1. 



