The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [100] No householder might permit the games prohibited by the statute to be practised in their houses, excepting on the holidays, as before specified, under the penalty of six shillings and eightpence for every offence.

[ [101] Survey of London, p. 79.

[ [102] Pilam manualem, pedinam, et bacculoream, et ad cambucam, &c.

[ [103] Rot. Claus. 39 Ed. III. m. 23.

[ [104] The magistrates are commanded to seize upon the said tables, dice, cards, boules, closhes, tennice-balls, &c. and to burn them.

[ [105] An. 17 Edw. II. cap. 3.

[ [106] Nul enfaunt ne autres jeur a barres, ne a autres jues nient convenebles come a oustre chaperon des gentz, ne a mettre en eux, &c. Rot. Pari. an. 6 Edw. III. Harl. MS. 7058.

[ [107] [Before 1801.]

[ [108] Survey of London, p. 85.

[ [109] It was afterwards converted into small cottages, which were let, at large rents, to strangers and others, Ibid. p. 158.