Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… tell of young and inexperienced men being enticed to play a variety of games (cards and dice, mainly, sometimes chess), drinking too much and finding themselves in debt. For instance, Thomas Fellows, sugar baker of London, claimed he was drawn against his will into drinking and gaming by an old school friend. He lost his money at hazard, passage, 26 dice and hustlecap. 27 The …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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