Sheridan's character of the East India Company, 32. Shufflers, diplomatic, 181. Singer's Researches into the History of Playing Cards, 7, 131, 147, 201, 223, 238. Skelton's Bowghe of Court,--Card of Ten, 234. Solis, Virgil, cards of his designing, 238. Solme, Thomas, 'the Bushoppes poure thresshere,' uses the term _Yack an napes_, 233. Sota, the Spanish name for the Knave of cards, 229. South-sea bubble, cards ridiculing the speculators, 169. Spata, a weapon figured in Baker and Co.'s eclectic cards, 261. St. Christopher, woodcut of, with the date 1423, in Earl Spencer's collection, 86. Stencilling, early cards executed by means of, 83. Stephens, Henry, relates an anecdote of a losing gamester's swearing, 312. Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, 107. Stubbes, Philip, his opinion of playing at cards and other games, 124; on ruffs, 165. Stukeley, Dr., old cards formerly belonging to, 205. Suits of cards, names of, 228, 230. Sunday, card-playing on, 146. Sûr Mera, the title of a Rabbinical treatise against gaming, 317. Swabbers, 161. Swearing, a vice to which gamesters are prone, 311. Tahures, a Spanish name for gamesters, etymology of the word, according to Diego del Castillo, 115, 116. Taj, or Tas, a name for cards in Hindostan, 41. Tali, 11. Tarocchi, or Tarots, 190-5. Tarotiers, French card-makers called by this name in 1594, 272. Tax on cards, when first levied in England, 131. Taylor, the water-poet, his picture of a prodigal, 163. Taylor, Dr. Jeremy, on card-playing, 297-300. Teniers, in a picture represents two soldiers playing at cards in the hall of the high priest, 123. Terms used at the game of cards in Hindostan, 43. Thiers, Dr. J. B., his Traité des Jeux, 80, 293, 309, 311. Thimble-rig superseded by railway speculation, 101. Toplady, the Rev. Augustus, on card-playing, 300. Townshend, Lord George, caricatures ascribed to, 184. Transformation of cards, 260. Turner, Sharon, his derivation of the word jackanapes, 231. T. W., the initials of the engraver of a pack of cards of the 15th century, 222. Urquhart, Sir Thomas, his translation of Rabelais, 19. Valery, a name on an old Knave of Hearts, 217. Valet, the original meaning of the word, 231 Vega, Garcilasso de la, his account of the Spanish soldiers manufacturing cards, 106. Vichnou, incarnations of, in a pack of Hindostanee cards, 36-40. Vierge, Fierge, Pherz, the queen at Chess, 15-21. Visconti, Philip, Duke of Milan, cards painted for him, 230. Volay, Jean, a French card manufacturer, 132. Volpato, Mons., cards formerly belonging to, 221. Ward, Samuel, preacher, of Ipswich, his Woe to Drunkards, 130. Wesley, John, sometimes sought an answer by lot, 129: fond of whist when a young man, 301. Whist, its relation to chess, 17. ----, a game of English origin, 160-5.