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

[ [919] Orderic. Vital, p. 550.

[ [920] Orbis Sensualium Pictus, translated by Hoole, p. 658.

[ [921] In Latin, Pyrgus, Turricula, et Frittillus.

[ [922] "Nec ludant ad aleas vel taxillos." Decret. Concil. Vigorn. A. D. 1240, directed to the clergy.

[ [923] No. 6395, Art. 69.

[ [924] "As false as dicers' oaths," is a proverbial expression, and used by Shakspeare in Hamlet, act iii. scene 4.

[ [925] An. 5 Ed. VI. A. D. 1551, Holinshed, vol. iii. p. 1062.

[ [926] Palamed. de Aleatoribus, cap. 18.

[ [927] Lepistre Othea, MS. "Ulixes fu un baron de Grece de grant soubtillete, et en temps du siege de Troye il trouva le gieu des esches," &c. Ulysses was a baron of Greece, exceedingly wise, and during the siege of Troy invented the game of chess. Harl. Lib. 4431.

[ [928] Ency. Brit. word Chess.