Crass I. RPO O 1 e, 
does no credit to the manners of the times: bear- 
baiting in all its cruelty was a favorite paftime with 
our anceftors. We find itin queen Ei:zabeth’s days, 
exhibited (tempered with our merry difports) as 
an entertainment for an ambaflador, and again 
among the various amufements prepared for her 
majefty at the princely Kenelworth. 
Our nobility alfo kept their bear-ward: twenty 
fhillings was the annual reward of that officer from _ 
his lord the fifth earl of NonTHUMBERLAND, ‘ when 
‘he comyth to my lorde in cri/fmas with his lord- 
‘ fhippes beefts for makynge of his lordichip paf- 
© tyme the faid xu days *. 
It will not be foreign to the fubjec | here to add, 
that our monarchs in very early times kept up the 
fiate of amenagery of exotic animals. Henry 1. had 
his lions, leopards, lynxes, and porpentines (por- 
cupines) in his park at Woodftock +. .The empe- 
ror Frederick fent to Henry III. a prefent of three 
leopards in token of his royal fhield of arms, where- 
in three leopards were pictured {. The fame prince 
had alfo an elephant which (with its keeper) was 
maintained at the expence of the fheriffs of London 
for the time being ||. The other animals had their 
keeper, a man of fafhion, who was allowed fix- 
pence a day for himéelf and: fix-pence for each 
beaft. : 
* Northumberland Houfbold Book, 
f; Stow’s Lift London 1, 79. t Thid. 
\| Idem. 118, 
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