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Steyr 6140 6150 6160 6175 6195 CVT Tractor Service Manual 47505531
Steyr 6140 6150 6160 6175 6195 CVT Tractor Service Manual 47505531
Steyr 6140 6150 6160 6175 6195 CVT Tractor Service Manual 47505531
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In Memory of
The State Lottery,
the last of a long line
whose origin in England commenced
in the year 1569,
which, after a series of tedious complaints,
Expired
on the
18th day of October, 1826.
During a period of 257 years, the family
flourished under the powerful protection
of the
British Parliament;
the Minister of the day continuing to
give them his support for the improvement
of the revenue.
As they increased, it was found that their
continuance corrupted the morals
and encouraged a spirit
of Speculation and Gambling among the lower
classes of the people;
thousands of whom fell victims to their
insinuating and tempting allurements.
Many philanthropic individuals
in the Senate,
at various times for a series of years,
pointed out their baneful influence
without effect,
His Majesty’s Ministers
still affording them their countenance
and protection.
The British Parliament
being, at length, convinced of their
mischievous tendency,
His Majesty, GEORGE IV.,
on the 9th July, 1823,
pronounced sentence of condemnation
on the whole of the race;
from which time they were almost
Neglected by the British Public.
Very great efforts were made by the
Partizans and friends of the family to
excite
the public feeling in favour of the last
of the race, in vain:
It continued to linger out the few
remaining
moments of its existence without attention
or sympathy, and finally terminated
its career, unregretted by any
virtuous mind.
Bear-Baiting.
Men were not wanting to raise their voices against this brutal sport
even at the time kings favoured it. Towards the close of the reign of
Henry VIII., Crowley wrote some lines, which we have modernised,
as follows:—
“What folly is this to keep with danger
A great mastiff dog, and foul, ugly bear,
And to this intent to see these two fight
With terrible tearing, a full ugly sight.
And methinks these men are most fools of all
Whose store of money is but very small,
And yet every Sunday they will surely spend
A penny or two, the bear-ward’s living to mend.
At Paris Garden, each Sunday, a man shall not fail
To find two or three hundred for the bear-ward’s vale;
One halfpenny a piece they use for to give
When some have not more in their purses, I believe.
Well, at the last day their conscience will declare
That the poor ought to have all that they may spare,
If you therefore go to witness a bear fight
Be sure that God His curse will upon you alight.”
We may recognise the zeal of the writer, but we cannot commend
the merits of his poetry.
When Princess Elizabeth was confined at Hatfield House, she was
visited by her sister, Queen Mary. On the morning after her arrival,
after mass was over, a grand entertainment of bear-baiting took
place, much to their enjoyment.
Elizabeth, as a princess, took a delight in this sport, and when she
occupied the throne she gave it her support. When the theatre, in
the palmy days of Shakespeare and Burbage, was attracting a larger
share of public patronage than the bear garden, she waxed
indignant, and in 1591 an order was issued from the Privy Council,
forbidding “plays to be performed on Thursdays because bear-
baiting and such pastimes had usually been practised.” The Lord
Mayor followed the order with an injunction in which it was stated
“that in divers places the players are not to recite their plays to the
great hurt and destruction of the game of bear-baiting and suchlike
pastimes, which are maintained for Her Majesty’s pleasure.”
THE GLOBE THEATRE. TEMP. ELIZABETH.
James I. was a lover of hunting and other sports, and gave his
patronage to bear-baiting. We learn from Nichols’ “Progresses and
Processions,” that the King commanded that a bear which had killed
a child which had negligently been left in the bear-house of the
Tower, be baited to death upon a stage. The order was carried out in
presence of a large gathering of spectators.
In a letter written on July 12th, 1623, by Mr. Chamberlain to Sir
Dudley Carleton, the following passage occurs:—“The Spanish
Ambassador is much delighted in bear-baiting. He was last week at
Paris Garden, where they showed him all the pleasure they could
both with bull, bear, and horse, besides jackanapes, and then turned
a white bear into the Thames, where the dogs baited him swimming,
which was the best sport of all.”
Mr. William Kelly, in his work entitled “Notices Illustrative of the
Drama and other Popular Amusements, Chiefly in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries,” has some very curious information relating
to bear-baiting. The Leicester town accounts contain entries of many
payments given to the bear-wards of Edward VI., Queen Elizabeth,
and members of the nobility. Leicester had its bear-garden, but we
learn from Mr. Kelly that the local authorities were not content to see
the sport there, “as it was introduced at the Mayor’s feast, at the
Town Hall, which was attended by many of the nobility and gentry of
the neighbourhood.” We may suppose that, taking the place usually
occupied by the “interlude,” the bear was baited in the Hall in the
interval between the feast and the “banquet” or dessert, and the
company, like the Spanish Ambassador, no doubt witnessed the
exhibition “with great delight.” Much might be said relating to
Leicester, but we must be content with drawing upon Mr. Kelly for
one more item. “In the summer of 1589 (probably at the invitation
of the Mayor), the High Sheriff, Mr. Skeffington, and ‘divers other
gentlemen with him,’ were present at ‘a great beare-beating’ in the
town, and were entertained, at the public expense, with wine and
sugar, and a present of ‘ten shillings in gold’ was also made.”
A couplet concerning Congleton Church Bible being sold to purchase
a bear to bait at the annual feast, has made the town known in all
parts of the country. The popular rhyme says:—
“Congleton rare, Congleton rare,
Sold the Bible to pay for a bear.”
The scandal has been related in prose and poetry by many pens.
Natives of the ancient borough are known as “Congleton Bears”—by
no means a pleasant epithet. The inhabitants make the best of the
story, and tell how just before the wakes their only bear died, and it
was feared that they would be unable to obtain another to enjoy
their popular sport. The bear-ward was most diligent in collecting
money to buy another animal, but after all his exertions he failed to
obtain the required amount. He at last made application to the local
authorities, and as they had a small sum in the “towne’s boxe” put
aside for the purchase of a Bible for the chapel, it was lent, and it is
presumed that the sum of 16s. was duly returned, and the scriptures
were obtained.
Egerton Leigh, in his “Cheshire Ballads,” has an amusing poem
bearing on this subject, and he concludes it as follows:—
“The townsmen, ’tis true, would explain it away,
In those days when Bibles were so dear they say,
That they th’ old Bible swopped at the wakes for a bear,
Having first bought a new book.
Thus shrink they the sneer,
And taunts ’gainst their town thus endeavour to clear.”
The town accounts show how popular must have been the sport at
Congleton. The following are a few items:—
Such are a few examples of the many entries which appear in the
Congleton town accounts relating to bear-baiting.
Congleton is not the only place reproached for selling the church
Bible for enabling the inhabitants to enjoy the pastime of bear-
baiting. Two miles distant from Rugby is the village of Clifton, and,
says a couplet,
“Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, in Warwickshire,
Sold the church Bible to buy a bear.”
Another version of the old rhyme is as follows:—
“The People of Clifton-super-Dunsmore
Sold ye Church Byble to buy a bayre.”
There is a tradition that in the days of old the Bible was removed
from the Parish Church of Ecclesfield and pawned by the
churchwardens to provide the means of a bear-baiting. Some
accounts state this occurred at Bradfield, and not at Ecclesfield. The
“bull-and-bear stake” at the latter Yorkshire village was near the
churchyard.
Under the Commonwealth this pastime was not permitted, but when
the Stuarts were once more on the throne bear-baiting and other
sports became popular.
Hockley-in-the-Hole, near Clerkenwell, in the days of Addison, was a
favourite place for the amusement. There is a reference to the
subject in the Spectator of August 11th, 1731, wherein it is
suggested that those who go to the theatres for a laugh should
“seek their diversion at the bear garden, where reason and good
manners have no right to disturb them.”
Gay, in his “Trivia,” devotes some lines to this subject. He says:—
“Experienced men inured to city ways
Need not the calendar to count their days,
When through the town, with slow and solemn air,
Led by the nostril walks the muzzled bear;
Behind him moves, majestically dull,
The pride of Hockley Hole, the surly bull,
Learn hence the periods of the week to name—
Mondays and Thursdays are the days of game.”
Towards the close of the last century the pastime, once the pleasure
of king’s and queens and the highest nobles in the land, was mainly
upheld by the working classes. A bill, in 1802, was introduced into
the House of Commons to abolish baiting animals. The measure
received the support of Courtenay, Sheridan, and Wilberforce, men
of power in Parliament, but Mr. Windham, who led the opposition,
won the day. He pronounced it “as the first result of a conspiracy of
the Jacobins and Methodists to render the people grave and serious,
preparatory to obtaining their assistance in the furtherance of other
anti-national schemes.” The bill was lost by thirteen votes. In 1835,
baiting animals was finally stopped by Act of Parliament.
Morris-Dancers.