Talk:Cock throwing

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A fact from Cock throwing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 January 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that cock throwing was a popular blood sport in England for centuries?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/January.

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Dear Wikipedia editor,

"In 1660, an official pronouncement by Puritan officials in Bristol to forbid cock throwing (as well as cat and dog tossing) on Shrove Tuesday resulted in a riot by the apprentices."

This paragraph implies that Bristol apprentices rioted in reply to a new law banning cock throwing on Shrove Tuesday.

However, the given source suggests that the riots were for reinstating the monarchy and a free parliament, and the new cock throwing law was the "final straw", as it were. Also, the riot happening on Shrove Tuesday was incidental, whereas the paragraph implies the specific banning of cock throwing on Shrove Tuesday.

I would have made a correction myself except I fear I would degrade the quality of the topic. PanitGorem (talk) 07:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]