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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... house keepers - A child played for at cards — Raids on gaming - houses — Fielding CHAPTER IV Gambling at Bath - Beau Nash - Anecdotes of him - A lady gambler- Horace Walpole's gossip about gambling - Awful story about Richard Parsons - ...
... house keepers - A child played for at cards — Raids on gaming - houses — Fielding CHAPTER IV Gambling at Bath - Beau Nash - Anecdotes of him - A lady gambler- Horace Walpole's gossip about gambling - Awful story about Richard Parsons - ...
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... Gaming House end of Eighteenth Century - Anecdotes - The profits of Gaming Houses C. J. Fox and Sir John Lade - Col . Hanger on gambling . CHAPTER VI The Gambling Clubs - White's , Cocoa Tree , Almack's - A few gamblers described ...
... Gaming House end of Eighteenth Century - Anecdotes - The profits of Gaming Houses C. J. Fox and Sir John Lade - Col . Hanger on gambling . CHAPTER VI The Gambling Clubs - White's , Cocoa Tree , Almack's - A few gamblers described ...
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... Gambling on Race Courses - E . O. tables - Description of Race Courses- Evidence before the Committee - Description of the betting - rooms at Doncaster in 1846 - Beginning of tipsters and betting - rooms CHAPTER XVI Betting Houses ...
... Gambling on Race Courses - E . O. tables - Description of Race Courses- Evidence before the Committee - Description of the betting - rooms at Doncaster in 1846 - Beginning of tipsters and betting - rooms CHAPTER XVI Betting Houses ...
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... houses of the good folks of the City , for playing at dice there ; but let each one keep himself quiet and at his ease within his own house . " " 50 Ed . III . , A.D. 1376. Nicholas Prestone , tailor , and John Outlawe , were attached ...
... houses of the good folks of the City , for playing at dice there ; but let each one keep himself quiet and at his ease within his own house . " " 50 Ed . III . , A.D. 1376. Nicholas Prestone , tailor , and John Outlawe , were attached ...
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... gambling , but his experiences are of low Coffee Houses and Alsatia : and , presumably most of the Gambling Houses were of that type , for Thomas Brown2 ( 1663-1704 ) speaks of them as follows . " In some places they call Gaming Houses ...
... gambling , but his experiences are of low Coffee Houses and Alsatia : and , presumably most of the Gambling Houses were of that type , for Thomas Brown2 ( 1663-1704 ) speaks of them as follows . " In some places they call Gaming Houses ...
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