After the company quarreled with Meade and deserted the Hope, there is no evidence that the building was again used for plays. It became associated almost entirely with animal-baiting, fencing, feats of activity, and such-like performances; and gradually the very name "Hope," which was identified with acting, gave way to the earlier designation "Bear Garden." In 1632 the author of _Holland's Leaguer_ remarks that "wild beasts and gladiators did most possess it"; and such must have been the chief use of the building down to 1642, when animal-baiting was prohibited by Parliament.[559] [Footnote 559: Collier, _The History of English Dramatic Poetry_ (1879), III, 102; Ordish, _Early London Theatres_, p. 237.] On January 14, 1647, at the disposition of the Church lands, the Hope was sold for L1783 15_s._[560] [Footnote 560: Arthur Tiler, _St. Saviour's_, p. 51; Reed's Dodsley, IX, 175.] In certain manuscript notes entered in the Phillipps copy of Stow's _Annals_ (1631), we read: The Hope, on the Bankside, in Southwarke, commonly called the Bear Garden, a playhouse for stage-plays on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and for the baiting of Bears on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the stage being made to take up and down when they please. It was built in the year 1610, and now pulled down to make tenements, by Thomas Walker, a petticoat-maker in Cannon Street, on Tuesday, the 25 day of March, 1656. Seven of Mr. Godfrey's bears, by the command of Thomas Pride, then high sheriff of Surrey, were then shot to death on Saturday the 9 day of February, 1655 [i.e. 1656], by a company of soldiers.[561] [Footnote 561: Printed in _The Academy_, October 28, 1882, p. 314. As to "Mr. Godfrey" see Collier, _The History of English Dramatic Poetry_ (1879), III, 102.] The mistakes in the earlier part of this note are obvious, yet the latter part is so circumstantial that we cannot well doubt its general accuracy. The building, however, was not pulled down "to the ground," though its interior may have been converted into tenements. At the Restoration, when the royal sport of bear-baiting was revived, the Hope was again fitted up as an amphitheatre and opened to the public. The Earl of Manchester, on September 29, 1664, wrote to the city authorities, requesting that the butchers be required, as of old, to provide food for the dogs and bears: