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Sackerson was a famous brown bear which was baited in the Beargarden in the late 16th century. The bear appears in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor in which Slender boasts to Anne Page that, "That’s meate and drinke to me now: I have seene Sackerson loose, twenty times, andhave taken him by the Chaine: but (I warrant you) the women have so cride and shrekt at it, that it past:" Such bears were named after their owners. John Sackerson (1541–95) was the landlord of the in Nantwich and kept a stable of bears and so may have supplied this one.

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  • Sackerson was a famous brown bear which was baited in the Beargarden in the late 16th century. The bear appears in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor in which Slender boasts to Anne Page that, "That’s meate and drinke to me now: I have seene Sackerson loose, twenty times, andhave taken him by the Chaine: but (I warrant you) the women have so cride and shrekt at it, that it past:" Such bears were named after their owners. John Sackerson (1541–95) was the landlord of the in Nantwich and kept a stable of bears and so may have supplied this one. (en)
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  • Sackerson was a famous brown bear which was baited in the Beargarden in the late 16th century. The bear appears in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor in which Slender boasts to Anne Page that, "That’s meate and drinke to me now: I have seene Sackerson loose, twenty times, andhave taken him by the Chaine: but (I warrant you) the women have so cride and shrekt at it, that it past:" Such bears were named after their owners. John Sackerson (1541–95) was the landlord of the in Nantwich and kept a stable of bears and so may have supplied this one. (en)
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