Notices illustrative of the drama, and other popular amusements, chiefly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, incidentally illustrating Shakespeare and his contemporaries; extracted from the chamberlains' accounts and other manuscripts of the borough of Leicester (1865)
Kelly, William, of Leicester · London, J. R. Smith · leaf 180
and harvest-cart. In the upper classes dancing and cards prevailed; but the grand amusement was cock-fighting. The mains to be fought were adver- tised in every paper, and were as common as cricket- matches at this time. Sometimes one hundred cocks were slaughtered in a day. The theatre of this… … By the kindness of Joseph Harris, Esq., of West- cotes, who possesses the original copper-plate, I am enabled to give an impression of the card of admis- sion to the old cock-pit. Shakespeare, in "Antony and Cleopatra,"' al- ' Act ii., sc. 4.
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