[353] See Bartholomæus, “De Proprietate Rerum,” lib. xviii. c. 112; Aristotle, “History of Animals,” lib. vi. c. 31; Pliny’s “Natural History,” lib. viii. c. 54.
[354] Steevens on this passage.
[355] “Notes on Julius Cæsar,” 1878, p. 134.
[356] “Notices Illustrative of the Drama and other Popular Amusements,” incidentally illustrating Shakespeare and his contemporaries, extracted from the MSS. of Leicester, by W. Kelly, 1865, p. 152.
[357] No. 433. The document is given at length in Collier’s “Annals of the Stage,” vol. i. p. 35, note.
[358] Kelly’s “Notices of Leicester,” p. 152.
[359] Wright’s “Domestic Manners,” p. 304.
[360] “Progresses and Processions,” vol. ii. p. 259.
[361] About 1760 it was customary to have a bear baited at the election of the mayor. Corry, “History of Liverpool,” 1810, p. 93.
[362] Edited by M. A. Thorns, 1853, p. 170.