Sport in the Olden Time
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There is nothing like it in contemporary literature nor for generations afterwards ; clear proof of the importance of the place cock- fighting held in the daily life of our ancestors three hundred years ago No rules for the conduct of cock-fights had come into use when Markham wrote in 1614. This seems certain from the author's omission to mention rules PROHIBITION OF COCKING BY CROMWELL During the Commonwealth public cocking was made illegal, the Statute in this sense being passed in the year ...1654 The times were disturbed and the wording of the Act shows that it was not the sport to which the authorities objected, but to the political mischief which might be hatched under pretext of meetings for sport : " Whereas the public meetings and assem- blies of people together in divers parts of this nation, under pretence of matches for cock-fighting, are by experience found to tend many times to the disturbance of the public peace . .. It is ordained . . . That from henceforth there shall be no public or set-meetings or assemblies of any persons within England or Wales upon matches made for cock-fighting " Horse racing, it may be observed, for the same reason was forbidden for a term of six months from 6th July in the same year.
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There is nothing like it in contemporary literature nor for generations afterwards ; clear proof of the importance of the place cock- fighting held in the daily life of our ancestors three hundred years ago No rules for the conduct of cock-fights had come into use when Markham wrote in 1614. This seems certain from the author's omission to mention rules PROHIBITION OF COCKING BY CROMWELL During the Commonwealth public cocking was made illegal, the Statute in this sense being passed in the year ...1654 The times were disturbed and the wording of the Act shows that it was not the sport to which the authorities objected, but to the political mischief which might be hatched under pretext of meetings for sport : " Whereas the public meetings and assem- blies of people together in divers parts of this nation, under pretence of matches for cock-fighting, are by experience found to tend many times to the disturbance of the public peace . .. It is ordained . . . That from henceforth there shall be no public or set-meetings or assemblies of any persons within England or Wales upon matches made for cock-fighting " Horse racing, it may be observed, for the same reason was forbidden for a term of six months from 6th July in the same year.
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