Jacobean on The Gamecock Codexhttps://gamecock.org/tags/jacobean/Recent content in Jacobean on The Gamecock CodexHugoen-us© 2026 The Gamecock Codex · An editorial encyclopediaWed, 01 Jan 1614 00:00:00 +0000Gervase Markham on the Feeding of the Cockhttps://gamecock.org/quotes/markham-feeding/Wed, 01 Jan 1614 00:00:00 +0000https://gamecock.org/quotes/markham-feeding/<p>date: 1614-01-01</p> <p>Markham&rsquo;s <em>Cheap and Good Husbandry</em> is one of the first English treatises to describe the management of gamefowl in any detail. His recommendations are remarkably similar to those still followed by exhibition breeders of Old English Game today — proof of how little the working practices of the cockpit changed in three centuries.</p>