KING OR QUEEN'S BEARWARD. 83 
Book, recording ‘al manner of rewardis 
customable use yearely to be yeven by my 
Lorde to strangers, as players, mynstraills, 
or any other strangers, whatsomever they 
be,’ mentions, ‘ Furst, my Lorde usith and 
accustomyth to gyff yerely the Kinge or the 
Q@ueene’s Barwarde, if they have one, when 
they custom to come unto hym, yearely— 
vj. 8. viij. d.;” and, ‘Item, my Lorde usith 
and accustomyth to gyfe yerly, when his 
Lordship is at home, to his Barward, when 
he comyth to my Lorde in Christmas, with 
his Lordshippe’s Beests, for makynge of his 
Lordshippe’s pastyme the said xij. days— 
xx. s. Descending a little lower, we find 
Bear-baiting in much esteem in the time of 
Queen Elizabeth, when it formed a part of 
the ‘ Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth,’ in 
the year 1575. ‘It was a sport very pleasaunt 
of these beastys,’ says the historian of those 
revels, ‘to see the Bear, with his pink nyez, 
leering after his enemiez approch ;_ the nim- 
blness and wayt [watching] of ye Dog to 
take his advantage; and the fors [force] and 
experiens of the Bear agayn, to auoyd 
[avoid] the assaults: if he wear bitten in 
