some that it was a Biblical repute The last time bullbaiting took place seems to have been early in October, 1838.
Hackwood gives a similar colourful Referring to the early 19th stated: ''At that period, as were largely addicted to dueling, the patronage and similar so were the generally to cockfighting, bullbaiting brutalities they to dignify name of was no place sunk in of degradation attracted blood sport open land on the with Warwickshire 1820s and blood only their to have 1838.
(15) Simon Pawley, The Book of Sleaford (Finmere: Baron Birch, 1996), 33-34, 47, 56, 58, and inside front cover; for a map, see ibid., 37; and for more on the Market Place and the
bullbaitings there, see Edward Trollope.
(12.) Prohibitions of bearbaiting,
bullbaiting, and cockfighting went onto the books in the year of Victoria's accession to the throne, but it is not clear when they were actually enforced; dogfights continued to be staged beyond midcentury in the Potteries (Greenslade 141; Warrillow, Sociological History 141).
Early Grimsby apparently mounted an array of traditional customs, games, and ceremonies of the kind that one might expect in any English town, including those at Christmas, Whitsuntide, and Midsummer, and ranging, according to local antiquatians, from processions and May games to
bullbaiting and cockfighting.
The magnificent English bulldog was originally bred for
bullbaiting, an occupation that probably distressed both dog and bull.
At the time,
bullbaiting was one of the most popular spectator events.
However, in the paper the event was described, not as a "
bullbaiting" but a "bull-beating".
The public street, well into the 18th century, was the favorite place for adult play: football, wrestling, ninepins, shovel board, bear- and
bullbaiting, cockfighting, and meetings of friends took place in crowded streets and alleys and open places.
Lots of things were illegal in 19th-century Birmingham: prize-fighting,
bullbaiting, gambling, dog-fighting, the list is endless.