Church Dignitary Who Loved Cock-fighting.
Even Cardinal Wolsev loved the chase. Sir Thomas Ileneage 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 Elizabeth, a most learned man, who was Prebendary of Wetwang in the Cathedral of York, was reputed to be so skilful in the use of the bow that he instructed his royal mistress how to fell deer in the forest of Windsor. In his later years Ascham found pleasure in cock-fighting.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 9
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