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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... Newmarket - Oliver Cromwell and Running horses - Charles II . — James II . — Anne — Her fondness for racing— Sporting in her reign - Epsom - Tregonwell Frampton - The three Georges - A duel - Turf anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century ...
... Newmarket - Oliver Cromwell and Running horses - Charles II . — James II . — Anne — Her fondness for racing— Sporting in her reign - Epsom - Tregonwell Frampton - The three Georges - A duel - Turf anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century ...
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... for that time , desisted ; but so strong was the furor of play upon him that , soon after losing a considerable sum at Newmarket , he was contented to pay the penalty . E " When the late Earl of Td was a youth GAMBLING IN ENGLAND 65.
... for that time , desisted ; but so strong was the furor of play upon him that , soon after losing a considerable sum at Newmarket , he was contented to pay the penalty . E " When the late Earl of Td was a youth GAMBLING IN ENGLAND 65.
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... Newmarket . His brother Stephen lost £ 11,000 two nights after , and Charles £ 10,000 more on the 13th , so that in three nights the two brothers - the eldest not twenty - five years of age - lost £ 32,000 ! " 1 " The Gaming Table , & c ...
... Newmarket . His brother Stephen lost £ 11,000 two nights after , and Charles £ 10,000 more on the 13th , so that in three nights the two brothers - the eldest not twenty - five years of age - lost £ 32,000 ! " 1 " The Gaming Table , & c ...
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... Newmarket , where he trained his stud , and at one time owned the cele- brated horse Sultan , the sire of Bay Middleton , who won the Derby in 1836. But the roguery at Newmarket was too much even for him , and he sold his racing stud ...
... Newmarket , where he trained his stud , and at one time owned the cele- brated horse Sultan , the sire of Bay Middleton , who won the Derby in 1836. But the roguery at Newmarket was too much even for him , and he sold his racing stud ...
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... Newmarket , and suspicious looking foreigners , may be seen swaggering after dinner through the marble halls , and up that gorgeous staircase where once the chivalry of England loved to con- gregate ; and those who remember Crockford's ...
... Newmarket , and suspicious looking foreigners , may be seen swaggering after dinner through the marble halls , and up that gorgeous staircase where once the chivalry of England loved to con- gregate ; and those who remember Crockford's ...
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