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bearbaiting

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bear·bait·ing  (bârbtng)
n.
The practice of setting dogs on a chained bear.


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The inventory - published for the first time in this month's English Heritage Historical Review - reveals that Dudley commissioned four portrait paintings of himself and the Queen for the lavish event, which included music, morris dancing, bearbaiting, hunting, banquets and extravagant firework displays.
The inventory was compiled in about 1578, three years after Elizabeth and her court were entertained for nearly three weeks by the Earl of Leicester at the castle with an extensive range of revels that included music, masques, morris dancing and bearbaiting.
It is for no more and no less than titillating members of the public who have nothing better to do than sit and watch this show which is a human form of bearbaiting going under the guise of entertainment.
 
 
 
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