es at a considerable height from the arena.
Two poor dogs were killed; and so all ended with the ape on
horseback, and I most heartily weary of the rude and dirty
pastime, which I had not seen, I think, in twenty years
before.

On January 7, 1676, the Spanish Ambassador was entertained at the Bear
Garden, as we learn from a warrant, dated March 28, 1676, for the
payment of L10 "to James Davies, Esq., Master of His Majesty's Bears,
Bulls, and Dogs, for making ready the rooms at the Bear Garden, and
baiting of the bears before the Spanish Ambassador, the 7 January
last, 1675 {6}."[563]

[Footnote 563: British Museum Additional MSS. 5750; quoted by
Cunningham, _Handbook of London_ (1849), I, 67.]

Rendle[564] quotes from _The Loyal Protestant_ an advertisement of an
entertainment to be given so late as 1682 "at the Hope on the
Bankside, being His Majesty's Bear Garden." And Malcolm writes the
following account of the baiting of a horse there in April of the same
year:

Notice was given in the papers that on the twelfth of April
a horse, of uncommon strength, and between 18 and 19 hands
high, would be _baited to death at his Majesty's
Bear-Garden_ at the Hope on the Bankside, for the amusement
of the Morocco ambassador, many of the nobility who knew the
horse, and any others who would pay the price of admission.
It seems this animal originally belonged to the Earl of
Rochester, and being of a ferocious disposition, had killed
several of his brethren; for which misdeed he was sold to
the Earl of Dorchester; in whose service, committing several
similar offenses, he was transferred to the worse than
savages who kept the Bear-Garden. On the day appointed
several dogs were set upon the vindictive steed, which he
destroyed or drove from the arena; at this instant his
owners determined to preserve him for a future day's sport,
and directed a person to lead him away; but before the horse
had reached London Bridge the spectators demanded the
fulfilment of the promise of baiting him to death, and began
to destroy the building: to conclude, the poor beast was
brought back, and other dogs set upon him, without effect,
when he was stabbed to death with a sword.[565]

[Footnote 564: _The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer_, VIII,
59.]

[Footnote 565: James Peller Malcolm, _Anecdotes of the Manners and