CHAPTER III.

Strolling Players in the Seventeenth Century--Southwark Fair--Bartholomew Fair--Pepys and the Monkeys--Polichinello-- Jacob Hall, the Rope-Dancer--Another Bearded Woman-- Richardson, the Fire-Eater--The Cheshire Dwarf--Killigrew and the Strollers--Fair on the Thames--The Irish Giant--A Dutch Rope-Dancer--Music Booths--Joseph Clarke, the Posturer-- William Philips, the Zany--William Stokes, the Vaulter--A Show in Threadneedle Street 36