Preachers’ problems of the 16th century.
A pamphlet of 1572 (Murray, Eng. Dram. Cos., II, 402) protests against the practice of clergymen rushing through the Sunday service in order that the congregation may attend games or witness “a beare or bull to be bated, or else Jack-an-Apes to ryde on horseback, or an interlude.” This may refer to the practice of baiting apes, but it should be noted in this connection that the “Queens Ape” described by Taylor “did always ride vpon a mastiffe dog, and a man with a drum to attend him.”
From Thornton Graves’ “The Elizabethan Trained Ape” (Modern Language Notes, v35n4, Apr 1920).
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