Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

by William Andrew Chatto

[INDEX.]

• Act of Parliament, of 1463, prohibiting the importation of cards, [96].—Acts to protect gamesters who play on credit, [147]; the reason of their partial repeal, [148].
• Advice to professional card-players, [270].
• Alea, a general term for play; supposed to include cards, [61].
• Almanac, Cotta's card, [259]; the Perpetual, or Gentleman-Soldier's Prayer Book, [321].
• Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, forbids gaming in 1430, [80].
• Ames, William, [129]; preaches against cards and dice at Cambridge in 1610, [281].
• Amman, Jost, his designs in a book of trades, [84]; cards of his designing, [238].
• Anderson's History of Commerce, [96].
• —— Christopher, Annals of the English Bible, [109], [112].
• —— R., Ballads in the Cumberland dialect, [185].
• Anson, Lord, the circumnavigator, caricatured as a gamester, [181].
• Anstis's History of the Garter, [18].
• Arabian Nights, cards not mentioned in, [46].
• Aretine, Pietro, his Carte Parlanti, [194], [207].
• Assembly-rooms devoted to dancing and cards, [185].
• Astragali, [11].
• Avatars of Vichnou, [38].

• Bacon, Lord, his inquisitive spirit excited when a boy by a juggling trick with cards, [118].
• Baker's chronicle, [108].
• Baker and Co.'s eclectic cards, [261].
• Bale, John, uses the word Jack-a-Naipes, [233].
• Balmford's, James, tract concerning the unlawfulness of games of hazard, [129], [279].
• Barbeyrac's Traité du Jeu, extracts from, [282-94], [310].
• Barrington's, the Hon. D., Observations on the Antiquity of Card-playing in England, [18], [46], [65], [107], [132], [145], [160].
• Barrois, J., on the proper meaning of the name Gringonneur, [76].
• Bartsch's Peintre-Graveur, [200], [223].
• Basset, prohibited by Louis XIV, [147].
• Battle of the Reed Swire, [113].
• Bells, an ornament of dress, [240].—Leber's researches on the subject, [240-5].
• Bernardin, St., his address to the citizens of Bologna, [90].
• Bibliophiles Français, specimens of cards published by, [190], [201], [236], [250-3].
• Blacksmith's coat of arms, [6].
• Bonds, voluntary, to abstain from gaming, [79].
• Bras-de-fer, his moral exposition of a pack of cards, [320], [324].
• Brietkopf's Inquiry into the Origin of Playing Cards, [7], [26], [225], [227], [239].
• Briefe, the German name for cards, [26].
• Briefmaler, [84].
• Brunet, the younger, his note prefixed to a 'Notice Bibliographique sur les Cartes à jouer,' [100], [326].
• Bullet's Recherches Historiques sur les Cartes à jouer, [27-8].
• Buoninsegni's, Father Thomas, Discorso del Giuoco, [90].
• Bussi's History of Viterbo, [23], [73].

• Cabinet du Roi de France, cited, [111].
• Capability of cards as a subject of disquisition, [2].
• Capistran, John, his discourse against gaming at Nuremberg in 1452, [91].
• Card-playing at Bologna in 1423, [90].
• —— in Germany in the fifteenth century, [92].
• Card-playing common in England as a Christmas game about 1484, [97].
• —— in Scotland, [98], [110], [113].
• —— at Rhodes in 1498, [99-100].
• —— in Ireland and Spain, about 1590, [114-15].
• —— in the reign of James I, [125].
• —— in the reign of Charles II, [146-9].
• —— in the reign of Queen Anne, [165].
• —— in the reign of George II, [170-80].
• —— in the reign of George III, [186].
• Cards.—Hindostanee, [32-50].
• —— Chinese, [55-9].
• —— old stencilled, in the British Museum, [88].
• —— Heraldic, [150]. Historical, [153]. Mathematical, [155]. For carving, [156]. Satirical, [157-9].
• —— old painted, ascribed to Gringonneur, [195-8].
• —— Dr. Stukeley's, [205].
• —— old French, [211], [214].
• —— old German, engraved on copper, [220-6].
• —— engraved on copper, ascribed to Israel van Mecken, [226].
• —— German, engraved on wood, 1511, [236].
• —— French, of the time of Henry IV, [250].
• —— Portuguese, of the date 1693, [251].
• —— French Republican, [253-6].
• —— American, [256].
• Caricatures in the reign of George II, [181].
• Cartas (Epistolæ) from Carthage, [26].
• Cartes, chartæ, cards, probable etymology of, [20], [22].
• Carving, cards teaching the art, [156].
• Castillo's, Diego del, Satyra contra los Tahures, [115].
• Catharine of Arragon, wife of Henry VIII, a card-player, [107].
• Cervantes' Comical History of Rinconete and Cortadillo, [115].
• Charta, paper, probable etymology of, [24].
• Chaturanga, the Hindostanee name for chess, [16].
• Cheating at cards, trial on the subject, [296].
• Chess, said to have been invented by an Indian, [13].
• Chesterfield, the Earl of, a card-player, [173].
• Chinese cards, [55-9].
• Christie, James, his inquiry into an ancient Greek game, [13].
• Clubs for gaming, [170].
• Cole's, Dr. loss of his commission, [327].
• Collier, Jeremy, on gaming, [312].
• Colours of the ground of the Hindostanee cards, [17], [35], [36], [37].
• Comedy devised on the game of cards, [122].
• Controversy on the lawfulness of playing at cards and other games of chance, [128], [279].
• Cook's, Aurelian, Titus Britannicus, [145].
• Cotta's Card Almanacs, [259].
• Cotton's Complete Gamester, [159].
• Counting and guessing, [11].
• Covelluzzo's account of the introduction of cards into Viterbo, [23], [73].
• Cuffe, secretary to the Earl of Essex, his fortunes told by cards, [119].
• Curse of Scotland, [266-8].
• Cyprian, St., his treatise, de Aleatoribus, [61], [290].

• Daniel's, Père, Origine du Jeu de Piquet, [4], [209], [265].
• Dictionary of the Spanish Academy; its sanction of a conundrum as an etymology of Naipes, [23].
• Dominotiers, an old name for engravers and colourers of woodcuts, [87].
• Ducange's glossaries, [63], [99].
• Duchesne's, Observations sur les Cartes à jouer, and Précis Historique, [65], [99], [189], [204], [206], [210], [225].
• Dunbar's, Wm., poems, [110]; Valet of cards, [234].
• Dutch names of the suits of cards, [230].

• Elizabeth, Queen, a card-player, [120].
• Engravings, a series of, improperly called Tarocchi cards, [199-204].
• Epitaph on Beau Nash, [173]; on a noble gambler, [297].
• Equity, natural, how to be enforced in games of hazard, [287].
• Evelyn's Memoirs, [146].
• Exchequer, derivation of the word, [16], [21].

• Fante, the Italian name for the Knave of cards, [229].
• Fierge, the Pherz of Persian chess, [14].
• Fleur-de-lis, on coat cards, and in the compass, [7].
• Foreign Quarterly Review, article on Whist, [36].
• Formschneider, a wood-engraver, as distinguished from a card-painter, [83].
• Forret, Thomas, his objections to the manner in which many of the Scottish clergy, about 1539, spent their tithes, [111-12].
• Fortune, the gambler's goddess, [11].
• Fortune-telling by cards, [116-19].
• Four Kings, a name given to cards, [19].
• Franklin, Dr., his definition of man, [1].
• Freret on the origin of chess, [14].
• Furny card, explained, [109].

• Game, the first played at, [9].
• Games at cards in 1709, [159]. Before the time of Charles II, [160].
• Games, various, enumerated by Taylor, the water-poet, [163].
• Games, three different species of, [294].
• Gaming, excessive, of the French clergy, about 1580, [111].
• Gammer Gurton's Needle, cards mentioned in, [109].
• Gataker, Thos. B. D., on Lots, [129], [279].
• Gebelin, Court de, finds in cards an abstract of Egyptian learning, [5]; his explanation of the word Tarocchi, [189].
• Geiler, John, his remarks on card-playing about 1508, [100].
• Geographical cards, [150].
• German cards, names of the suits, [228].
• Gittern, guitar, derivation of the word, [25].
• Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen, [61].
• Gough's Observations on the Invention of Cards, [22].
• Goyraud, Vincent, a French card-manufacturer, of the time of Henry IV, [249].
• Grace's card, [266].
• Gregory, Dr., reply of, respecting cards, [77].
• Gringonneur, Jac., paints cards in 1393, [76].
• Guevara's epistles translated into French by Gutery, [66].
• Guilleville's, William de, Pelerinaige de l'Homme, [69].
• Güldin Spil, [74].
• Gungefu, the name for cards among the Moslems, in Hindostan, [41].

• Heineken's Idée générale d'une Collection d'Estampes, [15], [27], [82], [228].
• Helgen, a name given to woodcuts in Suabia, [87].
• Heller's History of Wood-engraving cited, [91], [93].
• Henry VII, a card-player, [98].
• Henry VIII, Act of Parliament against card-playing, [108].
• Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I, a card-player, [125].
• Heraldic cards, [150-2].
• Herrera relates that Montezuma took pleasure in seeing the Spanish soldiers play at cards, [106].
• Hieroglyphics, [6].
• Hindostanee cards, [33-52].
• Historical cards, relating to the Popish plot, and the death of Sir E. Godfrey, [153-5].
• Homer, his notice of the games of Petteia and Astragali, [12].
• Houbigant's Cartes Royales, [257].
• Hoyle, Edmond, his treatise on Whist, [162], [170].
• Hume, David, apostrophised as a whist-player, [160].
• Hycke-Scorner, cards mentioned in, [108].
• Hyde, Dr. T., De ludis orientalibus, [16], [265].