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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… authorize (by and under the Rules, Conditions and Restrictions by the Law prescribed) all manner of Gaming within this Kingdom”, The London Gazette (5-6 Dec. 1705). Gambling as Social Performance Gambling had an important social function. … 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 plaintiffs …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… Cricket Club, T03031, 1779. Image Peter Tillemans, 'The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate', Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.629, c. 1722. Image (After) Robert Dighton, … Star and Garter was the first cricket club, it is best seen as a meeting place for noblemen and gentlemen, who were looking to organise the rules of the games, rather than as a formal sports club. 2 'Cricket Match Played by the Countess of … started to develop in England in the seventeenth century. It became an organised sport during the reign of James I. The king paid frequent visits to the village of Newmarket because he enjoyed hunting and hawking ; his court, in particular …
Colonies | Gambling | Gaming | Horseracing | Rules | Sports
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