. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . ehalf of two of the defendants it was urged that they happened to be inthe neighbourhood, and hearing of the fight went out of mere curiosityto see it. At the close the principal defendants were fined ;^5 and costs; CHESHIRE : ITS TRADITIONS AND HISTORY 117 eight others, £2, los. each and costs. The money was, in each case, paidimmediately. Cock-fighting in the time of Hogarth was designated a royal sport,and he propounded a query for the consideration of the clergy aft
. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . ehalf of two of the defendants it was urged that they happened to be inthe neighbourhood, and hearing of the fight went out of mere curiosityto see it. At the close the principal defendants were fined ;^5 and costs; CHESHIRE : ITS TRADITIONS AND HISTORY 117 eight others, £2, los. each and costs. The money was, in each case, paidimmediately. Cock-fighting in the time of Hogarth was designated a royal sport,and he propounded a query for the consideration of the clergy after his pictureof the cock ring at that period. Might it not, he says, have a tendencyto check that barbarous spirit which has more frequently its source in anearly acquired habit arising from the prevalence of example, than in naturaldepravity, if every divine in Great Britain were to preach at least one sermonevery twelve months on our universal insensibility to the suffering of thebrute creation— Wilt thou draw near the nature of the Gods ? Draw near them then in being merciful, Sweet mercy is Nobilitys true CHAPTER X. Cheshire sports and pastimes—The Bishop Blaize Festival—A singular handbill—Archery andits associations^Cheshire dances : Morris dance, Plough dance, etc.—Village sports, broad-sword and singlestick—Bowling, ancient and modem—Quoits, cricket, Chester Races, football, lifting ^Ducking stools for scolds—The village stocks—Beating the bounds—Wakes revelry—May day festivals, Arley and Knutsford—The Knutsford processions and their members—The town basking in the sunshine of Royalty—Origin of the Royal May Day Festival—Afterthe War, 19x9. THE festival of Bishop Blaize, the patron saint of the craft of Wool-combers, was celebrated universally a century ago in Cheshire. StBlaize, or Blaisius, was a bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, and sufferedmartyrdom in 316. His chief virtue, so far as woolcombers are concerned,appears to have
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