When was bear baiting introduced

Martin expressed a hope that some gentleman would second it. Some one having seconded it, and the question being put,. The hon. Now, if the hon. It was impossible for him to vindicate the cruelty with which the sports in question were probably accompanied; but at the same time it was impossible for him to forget, that those who would have to pass this bill, for the purpose of putting an end to the sports in which the poor found amusement, were in the habit of pursuing other sports attended with just the same cruelty to animals.

The House had last session refused to amend the Game laws, on the express ground, that, by affording a mode of amusement to country gentlemen, they afforded them a motive to residence on their estates. The advantages of this residence he did not mean to undervalue; but, while they thus directly encouraged the wounding of animals in shooting and hunting, they could not with any decency pass a partial law against the same sort of cruelty, when perpetrated by a lower class of people, nor could they make it penal to encourage the antipathies of two animals in Bear-baiting, when they encouraged precisely the same antipathies in fox-hunting.

Let them abolish foxhunting and partridge shooting, and they might then abolish Bear-baiting. If, indeed, the hon.

Who could say that hawking was less cruel than Bear-baiting or fishing? Nay, fishing added treachery to cruelty; while, in Bear-baiting, the victim was at any rate brought fairly to the stake, and the late Mr. Windham used to assert, had a sort of pleasure in contending against his natural enemies the dogs. Fishing was a cruel fraud practised on innocent and defenceless animals.

On what principle, too, did we retain animals in confinement at all? Coon's Site Mr. Hollembaek's Site Mr. Sherman's Life Sciences Mrs. Bodak's Site Mrs. Fisler's Site Mrs. Boulet Mrs. Fisler's Site. What's in a name?

High School Mrs. Read the passage below. List two types of people who attended bear and bull baiting. Approximately how many people could attend a bear baiting event? Read the first-hand account of bear baiting at the bottom of the page.

Bearwards travelled far and wide to bring this entertainment to the non-urban masses. Congleton in Derbyshire had at least 33 visits from bearwards between and , while records at Dulwich College record the travels of bearwards around Kent and Gloucestershire in the early s.

The costs of attending the theatre and attending the baiting was the same, between one and three pence depending on where you stood. Eyewitness accounts vary greatly. Parliament suppressed the theatres in , but while they tried to stop bear-baiting it continued for several years. Eventually, the High Sheriff of Surrey, Thomas Pride, took decisive action and in had the remaining bears shot.

This ended bear-baiting during the Commonwealth , but with the Restoration of Charles II in a new arena was built in in Southwark and bear-baiting continued as before. Now the only live bears in Britain are in zoos, although they are occasionally discussed during debates about rewilding the countryside. But the British penchant for treating bears as celebrities has lasted. We have taken an animal that was used for entertainment and turned it into an emblem of everything: from the wilderness, to comfort, to Marmalade sandwiches.