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ROBERT See also: English captain and 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
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These See also: sports, which were referred to by contemporary writers as " Mr Robert See also: Dover's Olimpick Games upon the Cotswold Hills," consisted of cudgel-playing, See also: wrestling, See also: running at the 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
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They continued from about the See also: year 1604 until three years after the See also: death of Dover, which took place in 1641
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They were revived for a brief See also: period in the reign of See also: Charles II
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