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

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