<P> Festivals were popular seasonal entertainments </P> <P> There were many different types of Elizabethan sports and entertainment . Animal sports included bear and bull baiting, dog fighting and cock fighting . </P> <P> The rich enjoyed tennis, fencing, and jousting . Hunting was strictly limuited to the upper class . They favoured their packs of dogs and hounds trained to chase foxes, hares and boars . The rich also enjoyed hunting small game and birds with hawks, known as falconry . </P> <P> Jousting was an upscale, very expensive sport where warriors on horseback raced toward each other in full armor trying to use their lance to knock the other off his horse . It was a violent sport--King Henry II of France was killed in a tournament in 1559, as were many lesser men . King Henry VIII was a champion; he finally retired from the lists after a hard fall left him unconscious for hours . </P>

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