Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… bell-ringing clubs, or music societies. 9 9 . Peter Clark, British Clubs and Societies, 1580-1800: the Origins of an Associational World (Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000), p. 228. To the aristocracy, gambling was, by tradition, an activity … relations: 'there is now no society.' 22 The author of a pamphlet, a member of Parliament, advocated the creation of an association which would either regulate private gambling clubs or suppress them: 'These nocturnal assemblies, […] it must be the business of the ASSOCIATION OF REFORM , to restrain under proper regulations, or totally to annihilate' ( Hints for a Reform, 15). 22 . …
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