Event Comment: Luttrell,
A Brief Relation, IV, 268, 24 Aug. 1697: The
lord mayor has published an order forbidding all unlawfull gameing, excesse in drinking, swearing, cursing in
Bartholomew fair. The only notice of a performance is an advance one,
Post Boy, 12-14 Aug. 1697: At Mr
Barns's Booth, between the
Crown Tavern, and the
Hospital-Gate, over against the
Cross-Daggers in
West-Smithfield Rounds, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, is to be seen the famous
Rope-Dancers of
Europe, being four Companies join'd in one, viz. the
English, High-German, French and Morocco Companies of Rope-Dancers, by whom will be presented a Variety of Agility of Body, as Danceing, Tumbling, Walking, and Vaulting, the like was never seen before