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ROBERT DOVER (1575-1641)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 453 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:DOVER (1575-1641)  , See also:English See also:captain and See also:attorney, is known as the founder and director for many years of the " Cotswold See also:Games," which he originated as a protest against the growing See also:Puritanism of the See also:day . These See also:sports, which were referred to by contemporary writers as " Mr See also:Robert See also:Dover's Olimpick Games upon the Cotswold Hills," consisted of cudgel-playing, See also:wrestling, See also:running at the See also:quintain, See also:jumping, casting the See also:bar and See also:hammer, See also:hand-See also:ball, gymnastics, rural dances and games and See also:horse-racing, the winners in which received valuable prizes . They continued from about the See also:year 1604 until three years after the See also:death of Dover, which took See also:place in 1641 . They were revived for a brief See also:period in the reign of See also:Charles II .

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