Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing CardsChatto, William Andrew
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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Chatto, William Andrew
Playing cards -- History
Pamphlets with titles borrowed from the game of cards, 138.
Paris, Mons. Paulin, his collation of MSS. of Wm. de Guilleville's
poem of the Pilgrimage of Man, 70;
his conjectures respecting the name Valery on a Knave of cards, 218.
Parson, the, that loved gaming better than his eyes, 321.
Paston, Margery, mentions cards as a Christmas game, about 1484, 97.
Peignot's Analyse de Recherches sur les Cartes à jouer, 20, 69, 81,
253-6, 259, 265.
Pepin, Nicolas, said to be the inventor of cards, 23.
Pepys's Diary, 146.
Perlimpimpim, the by-name of an Italian juggler in 1622, 117.
Phaer's Book of Precedents, 121.
Picture cards in Cotta's Card Almanac, 259.
Piozzi, Mrs., refers to the game of the Four Kings, 20.
Piquet, the meaning of the game explained by Père Daniel, 209.
Platina, B., cards mentioned by, 93.
Pollux, Julius, his account of the game of Petteia, 13.
Pomegranate, a mark on cards, 226.
Poupart, C., pays Gringonneur for cards in 1393, 74.
Prayer-book, the soldier's, in a pack of cards, 321.
Prayers, playing for, 311.
Price of a pack of cards in the time of Roger Ascham, 133;
in the reign of Queen Anne, 167.
Process of card-making at De La Rue and Co.'s, 272.
Prodigal, picture of a, 163.
Protestants of Ireland, in the reign of Queen Mary, how saved from
persecution, 327.
Pulci's Morgante Maggiore--Re di Naibi, 234.
Quartes, 22.
Quatuor Reges, a game so called, mentioned in the wardrobe accounts of
Edward I, 18, 64.
Queen, none in the earliest European cards, 15.
Quire, derivation of the word, 25.
Rabelais, translated by Urquhart, 19.
Rabbinical treatise against gaming, 316-20.
Reiffenberg, the Baron de, his account of a woodcut discovered at
Malines, with the supposed date 1418, 86;
mistakes the Spanish _sota_ for a female, 229.
Rennell, Dr. Thomas, his sermon against gaining, 187.
Republican cards, 253-6.
Rey, M., on cards, 7.
Ringhieri's Cento Giuochi liberali, 53.
Rive's, the Abbé, Eclaircissements Historiques sur les Cartes à jouer,
20, 66.
Roccha, Angelus, Commentarius contra Ludum Alearum, 61.
Rogers represents the followers of Columbus playing at cards, 105.
Rowlands, Sam., his Knave of Hearts, and More Knaves yet, 134-7.
Roy's, William, satire on Cardinal Wolsey, 109.
Russia, great consumption of cards in, 272.
Sadler's, Sir Ralph, State Papers, 112.
Saint Foix's historical essays on Paris, 123.
Saintré, Petit-Jehan de, 68.
Sales, St. Francis de, a card-player when young, 309.
Sandro di Pipozzi, cards mentioned in a MS. work of his, 65.
Sarisberiensis, Joannes, 62.
Satirical cards, French, about 1819, 264
Schön, Erhard, cards of his designing, 238.
Sciential and grammatical cards, 139-41.
Sex of the East India Company, 32.
Seymour's Court Gamester, 168.
Sheppard, W., his England's Balm, 141.
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