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DOVER, ROBERT (1575-1641)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 453 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DOVER, ROBERT (1575-1641) ,
English
  captain and attorney, is known as the founder and director for many years of the " Cotswold
Games
 ," which he originated as a protest against the growing Puritanism of the day. These sports, which were referred to by contemporary writers as " Mr Robert Dover's Olimpick
Games
  upon the Cotswold Hills," consisted of cudgel-playing,
wrestling
 , running at the quintain,
jumping
 , casting the bar and
hammer
 , hand-ball, gymnastics, rural dances and games and
horse
 -racing, the winners in which received valuable prizes. They continued from about the year 1604 until three years after the death of Dover, which took
place
  in 1641. They were revived for a brief period in the reign of Charles II.


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