The History of Gambling in EnglandDifference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks and Romans-Among Mahometans-Early Dicing-Dicing in England in the 13th and 14th Centuries-In the 17th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote-Dicing in the 18th Century. Gaming is derived from the Saxon word Gamen, meaning joy, pleasure, sports, or gaming-and is so interpreted by Bailey, in his Dictionary of 1736; whilst Johnson gives Gamble-to play extravagantly for money, and this distinction is to be borne in mind in the perusal of this book; although the older term was in use until the invention of the later-as we see in Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674), in which he gives the following excellent definition of the word: -"Gaming is an enchanting witchery, gotten between Idleness and Avarice: an itching disease, that makes some scratch the head, whilst others, as if they were bitten by a Tarantula, are laughing themselves to death; or, lastly, it is a paralytical distemper, which, seizing the arm, the man cannot chuse but shake his elbow. |
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... Groom Porter - Royal gambling discon- tinued by George III . - Gambling in church CHAPTER III Gambling early Eighteenth Century - Mrs Centlivre - E . Ward - Steele- Pope - Details of a gaming - house - Grub Street Journal on Gambling ...
... Groom Porter - Royal gambling discon- tinued by George III . - Gambling in church CHAPTER III Gambling early Eighteenth Century - Mrs Centlivre - E . Ward - Steele- Pope - Details of a gaming - house - Grub Street Journal on Gambling ...
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... Groom Porter's , he flung one Main with the Earl of Mulgrave for £ 500 , which he won ; and his Honour , looking wistly at him , quoth he : I believe I should know you . Yes , ( replied the winner ) , your Lordship must have some ...
... Groom Porter's , he flung one Main with the Earl of Mulgrave for £ 500 , which he won ; and his Honour , looking wistly at him , quoth he : I believe I should know you . Yes , ( replied the winner ) , your Lordship must have some ...
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... Groom Porter - Royal gambling discontinued by George III . Gambling in church . LEGISLATION about Cards was thought necessary in Henry VIII.'s time , for we see in 33 Hen . VIII . , cap . 9 , sec . xvi . : " Be it also enacted by the ...
... Groom Porter - Royal gambling discontinued by George III . Gambling in church . LEGISLATION about Cards was thought necessary in Henry VIII.'s time , for we see in 33 Hen . VIII . , cap . 9 , sec . xvi . : " Be it also enacted by the ...
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... Groom Porter " has been more than once mentioned in these pages . He was formerly an officer of the Lord Steward's department of the Royal Household . 1 For complicity with the Duke of Somerset . When the office was first appointed is ...
... Groom Porter " has been more than once mentioned in these pages . He was formerly an officer of the Lord Steward's department of the Royal Household . 1 For complicity with the Duke of Somerset . When the office was first appointed is ...
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... Groom Porter's is referred to as a place of excessive play in the seventeenth year of the reign of Henry VIII . ( 1526 ) , when it was directed that the privy chamber shall be " kept honestly , " and that it " be not used by frequent ...
... Groom Porter's is referred to as a place of excessive play in the seventeenth year of the reign of Henry VIII . ( 1526 ) , when it was directed that the privy chamber shall be " kept honestly , " and that it " be not used by frequent ...
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