CHAPTER II.

Amusements of the Fairs in the Middle Ages--Shows and Showmen of the Sixteenth Century--Banks and his Learned Horse-- Bartholomew Fair in the time of Charles I.--Punch and Judy-- Office of the Revels--Origin of Hocus Pocus--Suppression of Bartholomew Fair--London Shows during the Protectorate--A Turkish Rope-Dancer--Barbara Vanbeck, the Bearded Woman 18