Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… parties of gamesters, from exclusive gambling clubs or elite assemblies at private residences to popular city taverns or coffeehouses where various social classes mingled and indulged in fashionable games, thus fostering new forms of sociable … laws aimed, with little success, at suppressing the games of faro , basset or hazard (1739) or at preventing taverns and coffeehouses from serving as gambling dens (acts of 1750). 2 The Gaming Acts of 1739 and 1745, designed to curb the …
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