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- Whin * yard was a bent sword , or reaping-hook , used in cutting u whin " or furze . This reminds us of a story . A gentleman in Hampshire , who ordered very lately some furze to be cut down ,
received a long bill for " skeevenng , " and was consequently interested in endeavouring to discover the origin of the word . " It is doubtless , " said a great philologist , to whose works we are indebted for several suggestions , " a corruption of the Grerman word schleifen , to cut down or raze . "
Where leaving them i' th wretched hole . Dr . Nash says : " In the edition of 1704 , it is printed in Hockeyhole , meaning , by a low pun , the place where their hocks or ankles were confined . Hockley-hole , or Hockley-i ' -the-hole , was the name of a place resorted to for vulgar diversions . " It is not likely , we think , that so vile a pun was made use of in designating this place of
resort ; for it is derived doubtless from hoc , dirt ; and ley , lee , or lea , which forms the termination of so many names of places , and signifies pasture-land , or any ground which is not under the plough . Hockley-hole was not far from Clerkenwell-green , situated between the end of Mutton-lane and the fields westerly . The following advertisement , ^ which appeared in the "Weekl y Journal , " of June 9 , 1716 , shows what the sports at Hockley were : —
, At the beae gabden , at JLocMey-in-the-hole , at the request of several persons of quality , on Monday , llih of this instant June , is one of the largest and most mischievous bears that ever was seen in England to be baited to death , with other variety of bull-baiting and bear-baiting ; as also a wild bull to be turned loose in the game place , with fireworks all over him . To begin exactly at three o ' clock in the afternoon , because the sport continues long . "
There must have been a prodigious demand for bears in the days of Hockley-in-the-: hole , and the Paris Garden , to which , in Poor Pobin ' s Intelligence of Jan . 8 , 1677 , it was announced that 3 , 000 bears had gone to winter quarters . But there were other gardens beside these two , for there was a bear-garden to the Grlobe Theatre , and one on the Bankside , in which there were cock , ape , and prize fights with swords , and whipping of blind bears , with horse and lion baiting , and every species of barbarous amusement .
In Thomson ' s Loyal Protestant for April 8 , 1682 , is the following singular notice * : — " London , April 9 . —At the house on the Bank Side , being his Majesties Bear-garden , on Wednesday , the 12 th day of this instant April , at one of the clock in the afternoon , will be a horse baited to
death , of a most vast strength and greatness , being between 18 and 19 hands high , formerly belonging to the Earl of Rochester , and for his prodigious qualities in killing and destroying several horses , and other cattle , he was transmitted to the Marquis of Dorchester ; where doing the like mischief , and also hurting his keeper , he was sold to a * See " The Antiquary . " James II . FennelL VOL . r . 3 s
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- Whin * yard was a bent sword , or reaping-hook , used in cutting u whin " or furze . This reminds us of a story . A gentleman in Hampshire , who ordered very lately some furze to be cut down ,
received a long bill for " skeevenng , " and was consequently interested in endeavouring to discover the origin of the word . " It is doubtless , " said a great philologist , to whose works we are indebted for several suggestions , " a corruption of the Grerman word schleifen , to cut down or raze . "
Where leaving them i' th wretched hole . Dr . Nash says : " In the edition of 1704 , it is printed in Hockeyhole , meaning , by a low pun , the place where their hocks or ankles were confined . Hockley-hole , or Hockley-i ' -the-hole , was the name of a place resorted to for vulgar diversions . " It is not likely , we think , that so vile a pun was made use of in designating this place of
resort ; for it is derived doubtless from hoc , dirt ; and ley , lee , or lea , which forms the termination of so many names of places , and signifies pasture-land , or any ground which is not under the plough . Hockley-hole was not far from Clerkenwell-green , situated between the end of Mutton-lane and the fields westerly . The following advertisement , ^ which appeared in the "Weekl y Journal , " of June 9 , 1716 , shows what the sports at Hockley were : —
, At the beae gabden , at JLocMey-in-the-hole , at the request of several persons of quality , on Monday , llih of this instant June , is one of the largest and most mischievous bears that ever was seen in England to be baited to death , with other variety of bull-baiting and bear-baiting ; as also a wild bull to be turned loose in the game place , with fireworks all over him . To begin exactly at three o ' clock in the afternoon , because the sport continues long . "
There must have been a prodigious demand for bears in the days of Hockley-in-the-: hole , and the Paris Garden , to which , in Poor Pobin ' s Intelligence of Jan . 8 , 1677 , it was announced that 3 , 000 bears had gone to winter quarters . But there were other gardens beside these two , for there was a bear-garden to the Grlobe Theatre , and one on the Bankside , in which there were cock , ape , and prize fights with swords , and whipping of blind bears , with horse and lion baiting , and every species of barbarous amusement .
In Thomson ' s Loyal Protestant for April 8 , 1682 , is the following singular notice * : — " London , April 9 . —At the house on the Bank Side , being his Majesties Bear-garden , on Wednesday , the 12 th day of this instant April , at one of the clock in the afternoon , will be a horse baited to
death , of a most vast strength and greatness , being between 18 and 19 hands high , formerly belonging to the Earl of Rochester , and for his prodigious qualities in killing and destroying several horses , and other cattle , he was transmitted to the Marquis of Dorchester ; where doing the like mischief , and also hurting his keeper , he was sold to a * See " The Antiquary . " James II . FennelL VOL . r . 3 s