Note 566 — Chapter XVI
Reading edition
The earliest advertisement of the Bear Garden at Hockley-in-the-hole that I have come upon is dated 1700. For a discussion of the sports there see J.P. Malcolm, Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century (1808), p. 321; Cunningham, Handbook of London, under "Hockley"; W.B. Boulton, Amusements of Old London, vol. i, chap. i.