Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . A COCK-FIGHTING MATCH. 75 will be recognised likenesses of the principal individuals of this fancyat the time. Kay, in his MS. notes, particularly points out those ofSir James Baird of Newbyth, William Hamilton, Esq. of Wi^haw (afterwards Lord Belhaven), MacLeod, Esq. of Drimnin, Lord North the caddy, the noted Deacon Brodie, and several other eminentcockers. The two figures in the pit represent the persons employedby the different parties; the one was an Edinburgh butcher, the otheran Englishman. In allusion
Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . A COCK-FIGHTING MATCH. 75 will be recognised likenesses of the principal individuals of this fancyat the time. Kay, in his MS. notes, particularly points out those ofSir James Baird of Newbyth, William Hamilton, Esq. of Wi^haw (afterwards Lord Belhaven), MacLeod, Esq. of Drimnin, Lord North the caddy, the noted Deacon Brodie, and several other eminentcockers. The two figures in the pit represent the persons employedby the different parties; the one was an Edinburgh butcher, the otheran Englishman. In allusion to this contest Kay observes, It cannot but appearsurprising that noblemen and gentlemen, who upon any other occa-sion will hardly show the smallest degree of condescension to theirinferiors, will, in the prosecution of this barbarous amusement,demean themselves so far as to associate with the very lowest charac-ters in society. Cock-fighting prevailed to a great extent among the Eomans, whomost likely adopted it among other things from the Greeks, with thisaddition, that they us
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