“ The enjoyments consist chiefly of ass-races, for purses of gold; prison-bar playing, and grinning through collars, for ale; bag-racing, for hats; foot-racing, for sums of money; maiden plates, for ladies under twenty years of age, for gown-pieces, shawls, &c.; treacled-loaf-eating, for various rewards; smoking-matches; apple-dumpling-eating; wheel-barrow-racing, the best heats; bell-racing, and balls each evening. ”