| Description | Notice with details of light-hearted sports to be held on 1 August 1820, including a race for high bred donkeys of all ages and nations, and a race for ponies; prizes include a silver cup, a saddle and a fine linen smock, and a hat to be the prize 'at that manly game of crickets', and a pound of green tea to be a prize for old ladies, 'with many other interesting games of the like funny description too numerous to mention'
Announced under the names of Wiilliam Harris, Clerk of the Course and C. Brook, Master of the Hounds
[July 1820]
[Shipton, Wychwood, Oxfordshire] |