Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… , 41.77.1, 1791 At the beginning of the eighteenth century, games like Ombre , Basset , Piquet , imported from European courts—respectively Spain, France and Italy—were well established in England. Quadrille , a variant of the three-player … Clarendon P, 2000), p. 228. To the aristocracy, gambling was, by tradition, an activity revolving around the royal court, authorised and regulated by the Groom Porter . 10 Under the direct authority of the monarch, he had his own gaming … of the Games in vogue, would be reckon’d low bred, and hardly fit for Conversation.' 11 11 . Richard Seymour, The Court Gamester: or, Full and Easy Instructions for Playing the Games now in Vogue (London: E. Curll, 1719), p. iii. Lord …
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