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Old and New London
… of the Acts of Oliver Cromwell, March 31, 1654. British cocks are mentioned by Csar; but the first actual notice of … "is the very model of an amphitheatre of the ancients. The cocks fight here in the area, as the beasts did formerly … confusion in these two scenes that words cannot paint." "Cocks of the game are yet cherished," says Stow, "by divers …