Hoyle's Games Improved

wash them well with warm urine, which will keep them from rankling; after this give him a roll or two of the best scouring, and stove him up as hot as possible for that night. In the morning, if his head be swelled, suck his wounds, and wash them with warm urine again; then take the powder of herb robert, put into a fine bag, and pounce his wounds with the same; after this give him to eat a good handful of bread out of warm ale, so put him into the stove once more, and let him not feel the air till the swelling has subsided. If he have received any hurt in the eyes, take some leaves of ground-ivy, that which grows in little turfts in the bottom of hedges, and has a small rough leaf, chew them, and spit the juice into the eyes of the cock; and this will prevent the growth of films, haws, warts, or the like blemishes destructive to the eye sight. If in a month or two after the wounded cocks are put out to the walks, there appear about their heads any swoln bunches, hard and blackish at one end, it is certain that in such bunches there are unsound cores, which should be opened, and crushed out with the thumbs; then the matter must be sucked out, and the holes filled full of fresh butter.

ARTICLES FOR A COCK MATCH.

ARTICLES of agreement made the

day of and

One thousand eight hundred between

-First, the said parties have agreed, that

each of them shall produce, show, and weigh,

at the

on the

day of

is,

beginning at the hour of

in

the morning, cocks, none to be less than three pounds six ounces, nor more than four pounds eight ounces, and as many of each party's cocks that come within one ounce of each other shall fight for a battle, that each cock; in as equal divisions as the battles can be divided into six pits, or day's play at the cock-pit before mentioned; and the party's cocks that win the greatest number of battles, matched out of the number before specified, shall be entitled to the sum of.

odd battle money, and the sum to be before any And we fur

staked into the hands of Mrcocks are pitted, by both parties. ther agree, to produce, show, and weigh, on the said weighing days,— cocks for bye battles, subject to the same weight as the cocks that fight in the main, and these to be added to the number of main cocks unmatched, and as many of them as come within one ounce of each other shall fight for a battle; the number of cocks so matched, to be as equally divided as possible, and added to each day's play with the main cocks; and it is also agreed, that the balance of the battle money shall be paid at the end of each day's play. It is also further agreed, for the cocks to fight in silver spurs, and with fair hackles, and to be subject to all the usual rules of cock-fighting as practised at the Cock-Pit Royal, Westminster, and the profits arising from the spectators, to be equally divided between both parties, after all charges are paid that usually happen on those occasions.

Witness our hands the

Witness

day of.