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Plot's " Natural History of Staffordshire, " written in 1686, makes mention of a machine then in use in this county for gauging the size of fighting-cocks. Rightly the writer designates this ingenious contrivance as " the nicest piece of art that ever I saw relating to the feathered kingdom, and, indeed, the most curious was an instrument shown me by the Right Worshipful Sir Richard Astley, of Patshull, baronet, of his own invention to match game-cocks, discovering their size, both as to length... and girth, to so great an accuracy that there cannot be easily the least mistake. " A century or so later than this, when matches were made, articles were frequently signed which stipulated that no bird should weigh less than 3 Ib. 6 oz. Or more than 4 Ib. 8 oz. As the birds were scaled they were paired ; and as a rule the lightest pair of cocks were fought first, then the next in weight, and so on till the heaviest pair were the last to be pitted.
COCK-FIGHTING 237 In resuming our extracts from " The School of Recrea- tion, " we next read how this learned professor of the whole art and science of Gallomachia would have the bird trimmed for the ordeal of the cock-pit : "Thus being well matched, accoutre him for the pit, clip his mane off close to his neck, from his head to his shoulders.
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Plot's " Natural History of Staffordshire, " written in 1686, makes mention of a machine then in use in this county for gauging the size of fighting-cocks. Rightly the writer designates this ingenious contrivance as " the nicest piece of art that ever I saw relating to the feathered kingdom, and, indeed, the most curious was an instrument shown me by the Right Worshipful Sir Richard Astley, of Patshull, baronet, of his own invention to match game-cocks, discovering their size, both as to length... and girth, to so great an accuracy that there cannot be easily the least mistake. " A century or so later than this, when matches were made, articles were frequently signed which stipulated that no bird should weigh less than 3 Ib. 6 oz. Or more than 4 Ib. 8 oz. As the birds were scaled they were paired ; and as a rule the lightest pair of cocks were fought first, then the next in weight, and so on till the heaviest pair were the last to be pitted.
COCK-FIGHTING 237 In resuming our extracts from " The School of Recrea- tion, " we next read how this learned professor of the whole art and science of Gallomachia would have the bird trimmed for the ordeal of the cock-pit : "Thus being well matched, accoutre him for the pit, clip his mane off close to his neck, from his head to his shoulders.
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