. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. on that side ofthe bridge called London-bridge, wherebye the accustomed assem-bUes may be in that place clerely abolished and extinct, upon likepaine as well to them that keepe the beares and dogges which havebyn used to that purpose, as to all such as will resort to see thesame. * Et hocpericulo {ncumbenti nullatenus omittat. Teste me ipsoapud Westm. xiiio die Aprilis, anno tricesfsimo septimo regniRegis Henrici Octavi.^ 2 L 2 516 HISTOIIY OF LONDON. The liberty of the Clink is of considerable size, extending
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. on that side ofthe bridge called London-bridge, wherebye the accustomed assem-bUes may be in that place clerely abolished and extinct, upon likepaine as well to them that keepe the beares and dogges which havebyn used to that purpose, as to all such as will resort to see thesame. * Et hocpericulo {ncumbenti nullatenus omittat. Teste me ipsoapud Westm. xiiio die Aprilis, anno tricesfsimo septimo regniRegis Henrici Octavi.^ 2 L 2 516 HISTOIIY OF LONDON. The liberty of the Clink is of considerable size, extending from theriver to Suffolk-street, and from Winchester-street east, to Gravel-lane south. This liberty belongs to the see of Winchester, and acourt leet is held yearly at Michaelmas, for the election of officers. There was a prison belonging to this liberty, situate at the cornerof Maid-lane, turning out of Gravel-lane; but in 1745 it was inSfreat decay, and a dwelling house on the Bankside was used; butit was burnt in the great riots of 1780, and at the present time thereis The Bear Garden, the reign of Henry VIII. the Bankside, Southwark, afterwardsthe site of several theatres, particularly of the Globe, where most ofShakespeares plays were produced, was a thinly-built district, theresort of the idle and the dissipated, who repaired thither to indulgein the amusements of bull-baiting, bear-baiting, and various othersports which were there carried on, particularly in the space betweenSt. Mary Overys (now St. Saviours) church and Paris-garden, ahamlet nearly opposite Blackfriars, whence there was a ferryacross the Thames. Skelton, a poet of the time of Henry VIII. hasthe following curious lines upon these diversions :What follie is Ihis to keep with dangerA great mastive dog and fowle ouglie bear!And to this end, to see them two terrible tearings. a ful ouglie yet, methinkes, those men are most fools of a),Whose store of money is but very smal
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