DECLINE OF BEAR-BAITING. 91 
swords, and the exhibitions of the drama, 
continued, as heretofore, to be joined with 
Bear-baiting at Paris Garden. Bear-baiting 
awaited the ascendancy of the Puritans, in 
the time of Charles I. for a temporary sup- 
pression, when it was prohibited, in common 
with all other theatrical entertainments. 
Restored by Charles II. Jorevin, a French 
traveller in England, in 1672, was somewhat 
shocked at witnessing a bloody prize-fight at 
one of the Bear Gardens, between two profes-- 
sors of the sword: ‘ For my part,’ says he, 
‘I should have had more pleasure in seeing 
the battle of the Bears and Dogs, which was 
fought the following day at the same theatre.’ 
Locke, a few years later, mentions Bear-bait- 
ing and Prizes (prize-fights with swords,) at 
the Old and New Bear Gardens, among the 
diversions to which a_ stranger might be 
directed in London ; but, in 1720, fifty years 
after the visit of Jorevin, the sites of the 
Old Bear Garden and adjacent Falcon Ta- 
vern, the resort of William Shakspeare and 
his fellow-players, gave place to Bear-Garden 
Square, at present distinguished for Brad- 
Jey’s Iron-foundery and the Falcon Glass- 
