The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 461
123. Hot-Cockles. … 124. Fbog in the Middle. XII.—COCK-FIGHTING.1 have already spoken at large upon cock-fighting, andtlirowing at cocks. I shall only observe that the latter, espe-cially, was a very common pastime among the boys of thiscountry till within these few years; and in the following en-graving we have the…
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