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Cardiffe Race Week Features Bucks Plates and Cock Match
The notice outlines a sequence of horse races at Cardiffe on the Heath near the town, with prizes including a brace of fat bucks from William Morgan of Tredegar and other purses. Also listed are a pony plate, gallioway town plates, and subscription plates with entry and sales terms, plus a noted cock match between Montgomeryshire and Glamorganshire. A theft alert offers two guineas for Roger Preston. Additionally advertised are health cures and a plague instruction book offered by vendors in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
Cardiffe
County of
Glamorgan
South- Wales
William Morgan
Tredegar
Charles Romeys
Thomas Morgan
Roppera
Monmeothshire
Glamorganshire
Roger Preston
Greenwood
Morice
Burson
Covent Garden
Haydon Yard
Spooner
Goodman’s Fields
White-Chappel
London