It was during this period that an extravagant, history-loving lawyer named Robert Dover convened the ?Olympick? festival in the green hillsides of the Cotswolds. At the time, in the 1620s, Puritans were attacking England?s traditional rural festivals for promoting gambling, drinking, and lewd behavior. Dover?s Olympicks were an act of defiance against this dour movement, and as an annual event, it lured thousands of spectators of all social classes to sit on muddy hillsides near the village of Chipping Campden. A motley range of sports was on the schedule, including hammer throwing, bear baiting, shin kicking, and the brutally violent ?fighting with cudgels,? which left the contestants bloody and toothless (an accidental echo of the goriest of the ancient Greek body contact sports, the pankration).
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