Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 3 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

INDEX TO VOLUME III.

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BENDIGO. See THOMPSON, WILLIAM.
BENJAMIN, BILL, or BAINGE	399, 406
BRASSEY, of Bradford (JOHN LEECHMAN).
Fight with Young Langan	340
Fight with Tass Parker	344
His death	351
BRETTLE, BOB.
His pugilistic career	414
His battle with Tom Sayers	416
Defeats Jem Mace	451
Is beaten by Tom Sayers	452
Is challenged by Jem Mace	457
Adjourned fight	458
Is beaten by Mace	459
BROOME, HARRY (Champion). 1851.
Younger brother to the renowned “Johnny”	308
Born at Birmingham	308
Early glove displays	308
Rivalry of East and West. The Broomes	309
Fred Mason (the “Bulldog”)	309
Harry matched against Mason for £50	309
A prepossessing “first appearance”	310
Harry beats the “Bulldog”	311
A twelvemonths’ rest. Joe Rowe	314
A trip down the river	315
Harry defeats Joe Rowe	316
Tom Spring resigns his post as referee	319
Second battle of Broome and Joe Rowe	321
Matched with Ben Terry	323
A suspicious affair and a “draw”	324
“The Great Unknown,” Harry and the Tipton Slasher	325
Broome’s remarkable increase in weight and stature	325
His fight with the Tipton, and Peter Crawley’s decision,	327
Negotiations with Harry Orme	330
Matched for £250 a side	330
Defeats Harry Orme	333
The old “Tipton” again	336
Broome forfeits to the “Tipton”	338
And to Tom Paddock	338
Is beaten by Paddock	338
Retires from the Ring	339
Becomes a publican at Portsmouth	339
His death in 1865, aged 39	339
Joe Rowe’s “Sultan Stores” (note)	339
BURKE, JAMES (“the Deaf’un”).
His birth and parentage	94
Strand Lane Stairs. “Jack-in-the-water”	95
The Thames in the first quarter of the century	95
The old “fighting days”	96
Joe Parish. “the Waterman.” “The Spotted Dog”	96
Eminent watermen pugilists	96
The Deaf’un’s first fight	97
The butchers of Clare Market	98
An Impromptu mill. Defeats Tom Hands	98
Defeats a “New Black” for “a purse”	99
Enrolled in the corps pugilistique	99
Beats Berridge at Leicester	99
Matched with Fitzmaurice	99
Beats Fitzmaurice at Harpenden	100
Spars with Young Dutch Sam	100
Is ruptured by an accident	101
Defeated by Cousens of Chichester	101
Defeats Girdler at North Chapel, Sussex	102
“Whiteheaded Bob” and the Duke of Cumberland	102
High prizes prohibitory of prize-fights	104
A stratagem. Grabbing the wrong man	104
Beats Gow at Temple Mills	104
Bob Hampson’s challenge and defeat	105
Three battles within six weeks	105
Beats Tim Crawley	108
Tommy Roundhead and Frosty-faced Fogo	109
A Homeric battle; the muses appeased	110
“The Deaf’un’s” merits as a sparrer	110
Matched with Birmingham Davis	111
A disappointment	111
Defeats Birmingham Davis	112
Matched with Blissett	113
Beats Blissett	114
A dinner at Tom Cribb’s; and a match	115
Beats old Jack Carter	115
A “little go.” Lazarus and Jem Brown	116
An interval and a sparring tour	116
Beats Yorkshire Macone	117
Challenges from Cousens and Josh Hudson	117, 118
Bill Charles, “the Welsh Champion”	118
Claims the Championship	118
“Too heavy” for Young Dutch Sam	118
Sign articles with Simon Byrne	119
“The Deaf’un’s” courage and humanity	119
The “Irish Champion” and “the talent”	119
The day before the battle	120
The fight and fatal result	121–125
Verdict of “manslaughter” against Burke and others	126
Subscription for the Widow Byrne	126
Trial and acquittal of Burke	127
Presentation of a service of plate to the Editor of Bell’s Life in London	128
Challenged by O’Rourke	128
And by Young Dutch Sam for £500 (!)	128
And by Jem Ward for £500, but not less than £100 a side,	128
O’Rourke’s challenge and departure for America	129
The Deaf’un’s “ancient statues”	129
Harry Preston and “the Deaf’un”	130
Plays at Sheffield in “Valentine and Orson”	131
Burke’s “farewell,” and high stakes for prize battles	131
A maximum stake of £200 voted	131
Sails for America	132
His welcome in the New World	132
Sails South to meet O’Rourke	133
Riots in New Orleans, and escape of “the Deaf’un”	133
Returns to New York	134
Battle with and defeat of O’Connell	135
The New York Herald and the P.R.	135
Burke’s arrival in Liverpool	138
The “big ones” of 1838	138
A general challenge from “the Deaf’un”	138
The school of “Tom and Jerry;” a trip to France	139
Returns, and is beaten by Bendigo	139
“The Lament of Deaf Burke”	140
The Deaf’un again in the field, and matched with Nick Ward	141
Beaten by Nick Ward	141
The Deaf’un’s oratory	142
Indicted with Owen Swift, Ned Adams, Dick Cain, Lord Chetwynd, and others	143
The “Battle of Bedford” and Parson Cautley	143
Address of Deaf Burke to the Grand Jury of Bedford	144
The trial and its result	148
Receives forfeit of £15 from the Tipton Slasher	148
Night-houses in the Haymarket	149
Bob Castles and “the Deaf’un”	149
A match between Old Ones	149
The voyage to Rainham Ferry	150
The fight. Burke the conqueror	151
“Triumphant epistle of Deaf Burke to Bob Castles”	155
Dissipation, disease, and death	156
C
CASTLES, BOB	149
CAUNT, BENJAMIN (Champion) 1841.
A native of Nottinghamshire	47
Hucknall Torkard and Lord Byron	47
His first defeat by Bendigo	47
Beats William Butler	47
Beats Boneford	48
Second match with Bendigo	48
A mail-coach Journey to Doncaster in 1838	48
The road to the fight	52
The combatants “interviewed”	53
Incidents and mishaps	54
The fight; a magisterial interference	56
The fight won by a “foul”	58
Remarks on the battle	59
Caunt receives the stakes	60
A new match for £100 a side and a forfeit	60
Challenges by Brassey and Caunt	60
“An heroic epistle from Brassey to Caunt”	61
Estimates of the men	62
Newmarket and its neighbourhood	64
A battle of “big ’uns”	66
Caunt the victor	69
Claims the Championship	69
Challenged by Nick Ward	69
Loses with Ward by a “foul blow”	70
A second match made	70
Stratford-on-Avon the rendezvous	71
The field of battle, Long Marsden	72
The Champion’s new belt	73
Caunt defeats Nick Ward	74
Caunt “Champion,” sails for America with the “Belt”	77
A “buncombe” challenge	77
Charles Freeman, “the Giant”	78
“The Michigan Giant” and “New York Baby”	78
Returns to England, March, 1842	79
Caunt’s “Champion Cup”	79
Challenges Bendigo, Tass Parker, and the Tipton Slasher, in six months, each for £200	79
Bendigo again in the field	80
Caunt loses his third battle with Bendigo	80
A dreadful domestic calamity	80
Caunt and Nat Langham; a silly feud	81
Matched for £200 a side	81
Ben’s challenge to Tom Sayers	83
Misgivings as to Caunt and Langham’s encounter	84
The battle	86
A “draw” and a “dispute”	88
The “dropping” system	92
Caunt in retirement	93
His death, Sept. 10, 1861	93
H
HURST, SAM (“the Staleybridge Infant”).
His battle with Tom Paddock	307
Matched with Jem Mace	459
His battle with Jem Mace	460
Defeat and retirement	463
J
JONES, AARON.
His fights with Harry Orme	253, 262
Ditto with Tom Paddock	283
Beaten by Tom Sayers	237, 287
Fight with Bob Wade	245
Challenges Tom Sayers	419
A renewed match with Sayers	431
Surviving in 1881	358
K
KING, TOM, (Champion) 1862.
His birthplace, Stepney	490
Adopts a sailor’s life	490
Voyages to Africa	490
A foreman in the docks	490
His inoffensive character and courage	491
Disposes of a “’long-shore” bully	491
Introduced to Jem Ward	491
A challenge for a small stake	491
A forfeit from Clamp	491
Matched with Tommy Truckle, of Portsmouth	491
Beats Tommy Truckle	492
Arrival of Heenan	494
Matched with Harry Poulson, of Nottingham	494
Challenges Sam Hurst for Championship	494
Matched with Evans (Young Broome)	495
The Championship and Circus quackery	495
Ring performances of Young Broome	495
King defeats Young Broome in two Rings	496
Large stakes for little fights	500
Matched with Mace	500
A tedious interval	501
The approaching day—anxiety	501
A clerical “tip”	501
The journey to the fight	505
King defeats Mace for the Championship	505
King resigns the belt	509
A telegraphic message corrected	510
Heenan again in the field	510
Agrees to meet Heenan	511
Articles for £1,000 a side	511
Heenan in training	512
His pedestrian feats	512
Difficulties as to the place for combat	513
Three nights of watchfulness	513
Scene at London Bridge	513
The “roughs” at fault	513
A morning ride	514
Speculation; arrival at the ground	514
The ring at Wadhurst	515
The fight	516
King defeats Heenan	516
Remarks	517
Conclusion	518
L
LANGHAM, NAT.
His qualities and “unlucky” weight	234
Born at Hinckley, Leicestershire	234
His first fight	234
Comes up to London	235
An impromptu battle. Defeats Tom Lowe	235
Challenges Joe Bostock	235
Beats “Doctor” Campbell	236
Challenges; matched with Gutteridge	236
Defeats Gutteridge	237
Nat receives forfeit from Angelo and Gutteridge	238
Matched with Sparks the Australian	238
A trip per steamer and a strategic movement	239
Nat defeats Sparkes	240
In want of a customer	242
Matched with Harry Orme	242
Beaten by Harry Orme	243
Goes into business at Cambridge	243
Alec Keene, Tom Sayers, Harry Brunton	243
Nat matched with Tom Sayers	244
A trip per Eastern Counties Railway	245
A model mill; Nat defeats Tom Sayers	246
Tom and Nat, rival pubs	251
A ridiculous match. Langham and Ben Caunt	251
“A draw.” Nat dies at the “Cambrian,” Sept. 1st., 1871	252
L’ENVOY TO THE READER.
The extinction of the Ring	518
Fabricated accounts of Prize Fights	519
The Crusade against the Ring	519
The noble supporters of Boxing	519
Ages of the Champions from Broughton to Tom King	524
Parliamentary discussions	524
Railway directors and special trains	525
Anecdote of Lord Palmerston	526
Cant and cowardice versus manly courage	527
Farewell to the reader. Finis	528
M
MACE, JEM (Champion).
His merits as a boxer	444
Degeneracy of pugilists and Ring-patrons	444
Birth of Mace	444
His parentage	445
His travelling propensities	445
His first Ring fight	445
Matched with Bill Thorpe	445
Rapid increase in weight of some pugilists	445
Mace beats Bill Thorpe	445
Comes to London. Proposals for matches	448
Returns to Norwich, and matched with Mike Madden	449
A dispute and a disappointment	449
Six months’ quibbling	450
A new match and a “bolt”	450
Reappears as “George Brown’s Novice”	450
Matched with Bob Brettle	451
Beaten (?) by Bob Brettle	451
Appears as “Bob Brettle’s Novice”	452
Matched with Posh Price of Birmingham	452
Defeats Posh Price	453
Becomes a publican	454
Challenges; matched with Bob Travers (Black)	454
Career of Bob Travers	454
Beats Bob Travers (an adjourned fight)	456
Quarrel with Bob Brettle	457
Match for £200 with Brettle	458
Beats Brettle in an adjourned fight	459
Matched with Sam Hurst	459
The “Staleybridge Infant”	459
Defeats Sam Hurst	460
Mace hailed as Champion	462
Tom King challenges the title	462
Mace defeats Tom King	465
Heenan returns to England, 1861	468
Mace in business as a publican	468
Brettle backs “an Unknown” against Mace	469
Brettle receives £25 from King’s backers to retire	469
Mace defeated by Tom King	469
Matched with Joe Goss, of Wolverhampton	469
Mace stakes £600 to £400 on the part of Goss	469
Match-making “considerably mixed”	469
Fighting career of Joe Goss (note)	470
Precautions against police interruption	471
Riotous conduct of roughs at railway terminal	471
An early journey into Wiltshire	472
The “referee” difficulty again	472
A police intervention	473
A disappointment, and return to town	473
An adjournment “down the river”	473
The fight on Plumstead Marshes	474
Mace defeats Joe Goss	474
A “side-light” on “bogus” stakes	475
The anti-pugilistic press	476
The Morning Star and Dial	476
The Saturday Review: reflections on the fight	476
A “champion” from the New World	477
Mace and Coburn matched for £1,000	477
Cavilling negotiations	477
A sketch of Joe Coburn	477
Edwin James & Co.	478
Contrast of olden Ring “patrons” and modern Ring “agents”	478
Lord Shaftesbury an admirer of boxing (note)	478
Provincial tours	479
A journey to Dublin	479
A public “secret” more Hibernico	479
Press men in Dublin	480
Irish arrangements	480
A London celebrity	481
A scene at the rendezvous	481
Goold’s Cross, Limerick, named	481
A shindy, and the match “off”	482
A farce, and the a stakes claimed	482
The stakes drawn	482
Irish humour	483
An archiepiscopal hoax	483
Comments thereon	484
Colours and “good faith”	485
Mace offers to fight Coburn for £100	486
Degeneracy of the Ring	486
New “big ones” and the Championship	486
“Train-swindles”	486
Mace and Joe Goss’s second match	486
A “no-fight”	487
A new giant, O’Baldwin	487
O’Baldwin claims the belt	487
Mace’s “Unknown”	487
O’Baldwin and Joe Wormald for £200	487
O’Baldwin loses his way	487
Forfeits £200 to Wormald	487
Mace offers to fight O’Baldwin	487
Mace arrested and held to bail	488
Sam Hurst brought on the stage	488
Flight of the Champions to America	488
Their “doings” there	488
Mace beats Tom Allen at New Orleans	488
Returns to England	488
A publican at Melbourne, 1881	488
MASON, FRED (“the Bull-dog”)	309, 311
O
ORME, HARRY.
His birth. Harry an “East-ender”	253
His brief but brilliant career	253
Aaron Jones of Shrewsbury	253
Orme defeats Aaron Jones	254
Is matched with Nat Langham	256
Beats Nat Langham	257
A second match with Aaron Jones	259
The “ring,” at Newmarket	259
Hazardous ground. A shift	260
Fight No. 1	262
Fight No. 2. A second interruption	263
A misunderstanding. Jones refuses a third meeting. The victory awarded to Orme	266
The stakes given to Orme. Legal proceedings	268
Orme viewed as the “coming Champion”	269
Matched with Harry Broome	269
Defeated by Harry Broome	269
Becomes landlord of the “Jane Shore,” Shoreditch	269
His death, June 9, 1864	269
P
PADDOCK, TOM.
The Championship at the appearance of Tom Paddock	271
Tom fought the best men of the day	271
Born at Redditch	272
Beats Pearce, of Cheltenham	272
Defeats Elijah Parsons	272
Nobby Clarke	274
Paddock backed against and beats Clarke	274
Second match with Nobby Clarke	276
Clarke loses by a “foul” blow	276
Paddock as Johnny Broome’s Unknown	276
Loses the fight with Bendigo by a “foul”	276
Forfeit with the Tipton Slasher	276
“Draw” with the Tipton Slasher	276
Receives forfeit from Jack Grant	277
And from Con. Parker	277
Is beaten by Harry Poulson	277
Beats Harry Poulson	277
Convicted of “a riot,” and imprisoned ten months	278
Letter from “Lydon” on the affair	279
A third match with Poulson	279
Beats Harry Poulson a second time	280
Is a matched with Aaron Jones	283
Beats Aaron Jones	283
Aaron Jones’s qualifications	285
Paddock challenges the Championship	287
Receives £180 forfeit from Harry Broome, who is arrested	287
The late Mr. Vincent Dowling	288
Renewed match with Aaron Jones	288
Beats Aaron Jones	290
Harry Broome’s challenge	294
Preliminary proceedings	294
An excursion by the “Eastern Counties” rail	295
The fight; defeat of Harry Broome	299
Sympathy for the loser	302
The Tipton Slasher again	304
Tom forfeits to the “Tipton”	304
Challenges Tom Sayers. Alec Keene’s letter	305
Caunt challenges Sayers	305
Paddock’s serious illness; kindness of Tom Sayers	306
Paddock’s recovery. Match with Tom Sayers	306
Beaten by Tom Sayers	306
Beaten by Sam Hurst	307
His death, June 30th, 1863	307
PARKER, TASS.
His battles with the Tipton Slasher	191
His fight with Brassey of Bradford	347
Ditto with Harry Preston	351
PERRY, WILLIAM (“the Tipton Slasher”).
His birth at Tipton	157
The Slasher’s coup d’essai	157
Beats Tim Dogherty, near Chelsea	158
Returns to the “Black Country”	158
Fights and beats Ben Spilsbury	158
Matched with “the Gornel Champion”	159
Beats Jem Scunner, and becomes “a lion”	159
Tass Parker, Harry Preston, &c.	159
Forfeits £15 to Deaf Burke	160
Johnny Broome “manipulates” the “Tipton”	160
Charles Freeman, “the American Giant”	161
Theatres, the Circus, and the P.R.	161
A challenge to Freeman by “an Unknown”	161
William Perry is declared as “Broome’s Novice”	162
Matched for £150 against Freeman	162
The Giant “in training”	163
Description of Charles Freeman	164
Comparisons of bulk and strength of men	166
The journey to the field	167
A contrast	168
The fight interrupted by darkness	170
The return and its incidents	173
The adjourned battle; magisterial interference	176
Stanzas: “The unfinished fight of the American Giant and the Tipton Slasher”	177
A trip down the river agreed upon	179
Freeman’s benefit at the Westminster Baths	179
The voyage to the fighting ground	180
Aristocratic Ring-goers: “the Bishop of Bond Street”	180
“A shave:” Joe Banks, “the Stunner,” Jem Burn, &c.	181
The fight and defeat of the “Tipton”	182
The return: Dick Curtis’s benefit	185
A challenge to Caunt	185
The stakes given over to Freeman	186
Death of the American Giant, of consumption; infrequency of deaths from Ring encounters (note)	186
Johnny Broome and the “Slasher”	187
Tass Parker and the “Tipton” matched	187
Unsatisfactory result; police interruption	189
The adjourned battle	190
A railway “excursion”	190
A squabble about the referee	192
The fight: the “tumble-down system”	194
Johnny Hannan’s good conduct	195
The stakes given to the “Tipton”	196
Third battle with and defeat of Tass Parker	196
Challenge to Caunt, who declines to fight under £500 a side	199
Candidates for the Championship (note)	199
Tom Paddock	200
A forfeit, and a match with Paddock	200
A trip per South Western Rail	200
A day misspent: Wiltshire and Hampshire tabooed	201
A mill by moonlight	201
A “pig-shearing” excursion, and a “foul” blow	203
The Tipton claims the belt	204
Johnny Broome’s “Unknown” and the “Slasher”	204
Harry Broome “the Veiled Prophet”	204
Defeat of the “Slasher” by “Young Harry”	204
Receives forfeit from Harry Broome	205
Perry becomes a publican	205
Rise of Tom Sayers and his challenge of the Championship	205
Defeat of the “Slasher” by Tom Sayers	205
Death of Perry, in January, 1881	205
R
ROWE, JOE.
His fight with Harry Broome	314–321
In business, 1881 (note)	339
S
SAYERS, TOM (Champion).
His birthplace disputed	359
An Irish pedigree	359
Born at Pimlico, near Brighton	359
A bricklayer on the Preston Viaduct, at Brighton	360
Comes to London. First fight with Aby Couch	360
Matched with Dan Collins	360
First fight interrupted by darkness	361
Tom beats Dan Collins	361
Various challenges. Matched with Jack Grant	361
Beats Jack Grant	362
Matched with Jack Martin	365
Beats Jack Martin	366
Matched with Nat Langham	368
Tom’s first and last defeat	369
Langham declines a second encounter	369
Match with George Sims; £50 to £25	369
Beats George Sims	370
Proposes to go to Australia	370
Harry Poulson of Nottingham	371
Jem Burn, his backer, and Bendigo his trainer	371
Sayers defeats Poulson	373
The Championship in sight	379
A new belt and its claimants	380
The Championship in suspense	380
Sayers and Aaron Jones for £200	380
A change of route	381
A voyage down the river	381
Sayers fights Aaron Jones	383
A “draw” and darkness	386
Renewed battle with Jones	387
Sayers beats Aaron Jones	387
Challenges the Tipton Slasher	392
Excitement in the sporting world	393
Preliminaries of the battle	393
Sayers defeats the Tipton Slasher	395
Challenged by Tom Paddock	399
Paddock’s illness	399
Matched with an “Unknown” for £200	399
Bill Bainge, or Benjamin	399
First battle with Benjamin	400
Recovery of Paddock and his challenge accepted	401
The “Three Toms”	401
Anecdote of Alec Keene	402
Sayers defeats Tom Paddock	403
Tom Sayers against “the field”	404
Second match with “The Unknown” for £100 and the belt	406
Bill Benjamin once again	407
Sayers announces his intended retirement after his battle with Benjamin	408
Extraordinary rumours	409
The second defeat of Benjamin	410
Bob Brettle, of Birmingham	412
Sayers fights Brettle £400 to £200	412
£200 to £20 that Brettle was beat in ten minutes	412
Mr. John Gideon’s “arrangements”	413
A “monster” train	414
Bob Brettle’s career	414
Sayers defeats Brettle	416
Silly imputations on defeated pugilists	419
Aaron Jones returns to England	419
Defeat of Heenan by Morrissey	419
A challenge from America	420
Negotiations for an international contest for the belt	420
Aaron Jones in the field. He retires	420
A match proposed for Heenan and Sayers	420
Correspondence between New York and London	421
Arrival of Mr. Falkland. Preliminary arrangements	423
Heenan and Morrissey. Heenan lands at Liverpool	423
The day fixed, April 17th, 1860	423
A rush for “tickets”	423
Two monster trains	424
The journey down	424
A distinguished company	425
Appearance of the men	426
Pictorial representations of the battle (note)	426
The fight	427–432
Conflicting reports of the result	432
Departure of the referee	433
Return to town	433
Condition of the men	433
Humane decision	434
Two belts ordered	434
Circus buncombe	434
Subscription for Sayers at Stock Exchange, Lloyd’s, Mark Lane, &c.	435
Sayers a partner in a circus	435
Free living and its results	435
Sayers’s last appearance in the Ring	435
The needs of consumption	436
Last illness	436
His death	437
£1,000 invested for his children	437
Tom Sayers’s personal appearance	437
His grave and monument in Highgate Cemetery	438
The Combat of Sayerius and Heenanus—“A Lay of Ancient London”	439
T
THOMPSON, WILLIAM, of Nottingham (“Bendigo”).
His birth: one of three sons	5
Nottingham Lambs. Puritanism and Pugilism	5
Early battles, and first fight with Caunt	6
Challenged by Brassey (John Leechman), of Bradford, and others	7
Beats Brassey	8
Receives forfeit from Jem Bailey	8
Comes to London	8
Proposed match with Molyneaux, and forfeit from Flint of Coventry	9
Defeats Langan of Liverpool	9
Challenges any 12 stone man in England	9
Looney’s challenge replied to by Jem Ward	10
Looney declines Ward and is beaten by Bendigo	10
Challenges from Tom Britton, Fisher, Molyneaux, &c.	12
Matched a second time with Caunt	13
Beaten by Caunt	13
Caunt forfeits in a new match	14
Deaf Burke returns from America, his challenge accepted	14
Burke goes to France and the match falls through	14
Stanzas from Bendigo to Deaf Burke	15
Burke returns and articles are signed	16
Narrow escape of Bendigo	17
Shrove Tuesday at Ashby-de-la-Zouch	17
The road to Appleby	18
Bendigo beats Deaf Burke	18
Challenges from and to Caunt. Benefit humbugs	22, 24
Bendigo in London. A serious accident	24
“The fine old English Pugilist;” a fancy chaunt	25
Bendigo redivivus appears at Jem Burn’s	26
Matched with Tass Parker	26
Arrested at the instance of his brother and held to bail	27
Caunt returns from his American tour	27
Renewed negotiations and “A Valentine from Bendigo to Brassey”	27
Third match with Caunt	28
Preliminaries of the fight	29
Bendigo defeats Caunt	30
Disputed result and decision of “the Old Squire” (Osbaldiston), the referee	36
Caunt and Bendigo shake hands	37
Pretenders to the Championship	37
Bendigo accepts Tom Paddock’s challenge	38
Defeats Paddock	39
Receives the battle-money and retires from the Ring	45
Bendigo’s eccentricities. Takes “the pledge” and becomes a preacher	45
Beelzebub and Ben Caunt; an anecdote	45
True etymon of the nickname “Bendigo”	46
Dies from the effects of an accident, aged sixty-nine	46
TRAVERS, BOB (Langham’s Black).
His Ring career	454
Beaten by Brettle	454
Beaten by Jem Mace	455
W
WARD, NICHOLAS.
His claims to a place in this “History”	206
His birth in East London	206
His maiden battle with Jack Lockyer	206
Matched with Jem Wharton (Young Molyneaux)	206
Arrested and held to bail	207
A journey to Moulsey and a disappointment	208
A black job: Sambo Sutton	209
“Nick” is defeated ignominiously	210
“Brother Jem” backs Nick for a second trial	210
Misgivings: a “Beak” at Bicester	210
The Philistines out	211
Drawing a badger	212
A fight and a fiasco	212
Matched with Jem Bailey	212
A trip to Woking: an interrupted fight	213
A second match; Nick forfeits to Bailey	214
A match with Brassey “no go”	214
Articled to fight the “Deaf’un”	214
A trip to Stony Stratford	219
Adventures	220
Nick defeats “the Deaf’un;” a wrangle	221
Challenges Ben Caunt	223
The stakes awarded to Nick Ward	224
Matched with Ben Caunt	225
A long journey and its vicissitudes	226
Hostility of the “beaks”	227
The fight: a bloodless victory for Ward	229
A chaunt of the Ring: “Nick Ward and Caunt”	231
The stakes given to “Nick”	232
Second fight with Caunt, and defeat	232
Death of Nick Ward, Feb. 17, 1850	233

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INDEX TO VOLUME III.