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1603Sir Walter Raleigh's notes
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1604First English dictionary
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1605Letter about Guy Fawkes
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1605Gunpowder Plot conspirators
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1605The head of Guy Fawkes
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1608Shakespeare's King Lear
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1610The Globe Theatre
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1611King James Bible
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1617Surgeons' tools
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1623Chinese globe
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1623Shakespeare's First Folio
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1636Lotus Sutra
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1640Witch hunting
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1643English Civil War scenes
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1649Execution of Charles I
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1649Agreement of the People
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1649Charles I's executioner
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1650Early A - Z of London
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1650Advert for a quack doctor
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1660Oliver Cromwell as the Devil
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1665A cure for the Plague
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1665Robert Hooke, Micrographia
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1666Great Fire of London map
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1666Great Fire of London
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1666Wren's plans after the fire
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1669Theatrical figures
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1674Dictionary of criminal slang
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1674Games and pastimes
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1679Habeas Corpus Act
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1679Map of the moon
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1684A London Rhinoceros
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1685Henry Purcell
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1690Locke's Two Treatises
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1693East India Company
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1693Account of a shipwreck
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1698Map of South America
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Intro
The frontispiece of this book shows the array of games that were popular in this period. Entertainments included card games, billiards, chess or dice. Music and dancing were also fashionable forms of entertainment and the more curious individual could visit free shows, curiosities, or even public executions. Animal baiting was a particularly well attended sport. These savage entertainments saw partially tamed bears, fierce dogs, and fiercer bulls, attack each other until the animals were left either wounded or dead. The royal palace could accommodate a royal baiting of bears and bulls, in the tiltyard, where it could be watched from a gallery. Ordinary people could attend cock-pits where, for a small amount of money, they could watch the event or bet on the cock fight.
Shelfmark: C.71.h.23
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