Captain Thomas Dover
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were disbanded because of hooliganism. They have been restarted in this century and take place on the first weekend in May. The games consisted of various contests at single stick (backsword), wrestling, running, jingling, Morris dancing, greyhound coursing and horse racing. It is said that Shakespeare, whose aunt Joan Arden lived at Barton on the Heath, attended the games and included scenes from and about them in several plays, especially the wrestling scene in As you like it. Justice Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor asks "How does your fellow greyhound Sir? I heard say he was outrun at Cotteswold", Shakespeare's familiarity with legal terms may have resulted from his association with Dover.
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