AMUSEMENT 250 YEARS AGO
An advertisement from York in 1687: "On ye tendc daie September, ye iii i yere of or Suffreyn Lordc ye Kyng, ! James ii, attee ye squere before ye syne of Ye Black Bull Inne, Finkel Street of thys Citie, there sail be somme fyne sporte shewyn on ye morn betwix viii and ix of ye clok. “A bigge mad bull will be lette loose wyth fyreworks all over hym, and two or three cattes tyed toe hys tayle and dogges after them: besydes alsoe menie other kyndes of bull and bear baityne.'*
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 9
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96AMUSEMENT 250 YEARS AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 9
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