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

[ [959] Extract from a MS. in the Remembrancer's Office, dated December 26, an. 9 Hen. VII.

[ [960] Addit. to Leland's Collect. vol. iii. p. 285.

[ [961] Sir Will. Forrest. See Warton's Hist. Poet. vol. iii. sect. 36, p. 311.

[ [962] The same statute forbade any householder to permit card-playing in his house under the penalty of six shillings and eight pence for every offence. Stat. an. 11 Hen. VII. cap. 2.

[ [963] Stow's Survey. By points he means narrow ribbons with which one part of the dress was attached to the other.

[ [964] Especially Stephen Gosson, in his School of Abuse, printed A. D 1579; and John Northbrooke, in a Treatise against Diceing, Card-playing, Dancing, &c. without date, but apparently published soon after the former.

[ [965] Cap. ix.

[ [966] Cap. xix.

[ [967] No. 17, D. iij.

[ [968] Black letter, without date, printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Garrick's Collection of Old Plays.