CHURCH DIGNITARY WHO LOVED COCKFIGHTING
Even Cardinal Wolsey loved the chase. Sir Thomas Heneage invited him to go to East Hampstead for “pastyme together for two or three days,” and also to take his greyhounds with him. Roger Ascham, the favourite tutor of Queen Elizahetii, a most learned man, who was Prebendary of Wetwang in the Cathedral of York, was reputed to he so skilful in the use of the bow that lie instructed his royal mistress how to fell deer m the forest of Windsor. £n his later years Ascham found pleasure in cock-fighting.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 April 1934, Page 11
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95CHURCH DIGNITARY WHO LOVED COCKFIGHTING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 April 1934, Page 11
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