Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . s, one in Shoreditch, andtwo in Lambeth. Within these same limits, fourteentennis-courts were allowed, and also forty tavernsor ordinaries for playing at cards and dice. The the bull or the bear, as from envy at the pleasurefelt by the spectators. Verily, an amiable andsaint-like trait! On the Restoration of Charles II.,and the downfall of the Puritan faction, it canhardly be a matter of surprise to find that thelegislation which had so long been applied to thesuppression of even rational amusements shouldhave taken
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . s, one in Shoreditch, andtwo in Lambeth. Within these same limits, fourteentennis-courts were allowed, and also forty tavernsor ordinaries for playing at cards and dice. The the bull or the bear, as from envy at the pleasurefelt by the spectators. Verily, an amiable andsaint-like trait! On the Restoration of Charles II.,and the downfall of the Puritan faction, it canhardly be a matter of surprise to find that thelegislation which had so long been applied to thesuppression of even rational amusements shouldhave taken a swing in the opposite direction. It may be added, that although bear-baiting andbull-baiting never flourished under our later Stuartor our earlier Hanoverian sovereigns, it was notuntil 1835 that the practice was actually put downby Act of Parliament, which forbade the keepingof any house, pit, or other place for baiting or fight-ing any bull, bear, dog, or other animal. Andthus, observes Mr. Chambers, after an existence AMUSEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. 55 /. S6 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Southwark. of at least seven centuries, this ceased to rankamong the amusements of the English people. Strype, in his first edition of Stow, publishedin 1720, speaking of Bear Alley, on this spot, says, Here is a glass-house, and about the middle anew-built court, well inhabited, called Bear GardenSquare, so called, as being built in the place wherethe Bear Garden formerly stood, until removed tothe other side of the water; which is more con-venient for the butchers and such like, who aretaken with such rustic sports as the baiting of bearsand bulls. In the early part of the last century it wouldseem that another Bear Garden at Hockley in-the-Hole, near Clerkenwell, had superseded thisplace of amusement in the public favour, probablyon account of the absence of bridges across theThames ; and consequently, when it is suggested inthe Spectator of August nth, 1711, that those whogo to th
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