[ [90] John Field, in his Declaration of God's Judgment at Paris Garden, published A. D. 1503, fol. 9.
[ [91] Field, ut supra. See also D. Beard's Theatre of God's Judgments.
[ [92] Entitled, A Treatise concerning the Sabbath, published A. D. 1636.
[ [93] Page 25.
[ [94] The Pope's Kingdom, from Neogeorgus by Googe.
[ [95] Thomas Hall, B. D. Pastor of King's Norton, in his pamphlet entitled Funebria Floræ; or, the Down-fall of May-Games; published 1660.
[ [97] Benedict. Abbas, Vit. Ric. I. edit, à Hearne, tom. ii. p. 610.
[ [98] The words in the original, as quoted by Du Cange, are these: "Nec ludant ad aleas vel taxillos, nec sustineant ludos fieri de rege et regina," &c. The game of king and queen he conceives to have been some game with the cards; but most authors who have written upon the subject of playing cards, think that they were not known at that period, at least in this country: it is certain, however, that in the time of Elizabeth, the game of king and queen was understood to mean the playing with cards. "John Heywood, the great epigrammatist," according to Camden, "used to say he did not love to play at kinge and queene, but at Christmasse, according to the old order of Englande; that few men plaiyed at cardes but at Christmasse; and then almost all, men and boyes." Camden's Remains, p. 378. I have ventured to substitute chess for cards, in which game the two principal pieces are the king and the queen, and are so denominated in a MS. nearly coeval with the edict. See the account of this game in the body of the work.
[ [99] An. 11 Hen. VII. cap. 2.