INDEX.

Act of Parliament, of 1463, prohibiting the importation of cards, 96.—Acts to protect gamesters who play on credit, 147; the reason of their partial repeal, 148.

Advice to professional card-players, 270.

Alea, a general term for play; supposed to include cards, 61.

Almanac, Cotta's card, 259; the Perpetual, or Gentleman-Soldier's Prayer Book, 321.

Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, forbids gaming in 1430, 80.

Ames, William, 129; preaches against cards and dice at Cambridge in 1610, 281.

Amman, Jost, his designs in a book of trades, 84; cards of his designing, 238.

Anderson's History of Commerce, 96.

—— Christopher, Annals of the English Bible, 109, 112.

—— R., Ballads in the Cumberland dialect, 185.

Anson, Lord, the circumnavigator, caricatured as a gamester, 181.

Anstis's History of the Garter, 18.

Arabian Nights, cards not mentioned in, 46.

Aretine, Pietro, his Carte Parlanti, 194, 207.

Assembly-rooms devoted to dancing and cards, 185.

Astragali, 11.

Avatars of Vichnou, 38.

Bacon, Lord, his inquisitive spirit excited when a boy by a juggling trick with cards, 118.

Baker's chronicle, 108.

Baker and Co.'s eclectic cards, 261.

Bale, John, uses the word Jack-a-Naipes, 233.

Balmford's, James, tract concerning the unlawfulness of games of hazard, 129, 279.

Barbeyrac's Traité du Jeu, extracts from, 282-94, 310.

Barrington's, the Hon. D., Observations on the Antiquity of Card-playing in England, 18, 46, 65, 107, 132, 145, 160.

Barrois, J., on the proper meaning of the name Gringonneur, 76.

Bartsch's Peintre-Graveur, 200, 223.

Basset, prohibited by Louis XIV, 147.

Battle of the Reed Swire, 113.

Bells, an ornament of dress, 240.—Leber's researches on the subject, 240-5.

Bernardin, St., his address to the citizens of Bologna, 90.

Bibliophiles Français, specimens of cards published by, 190, 201, 236, 250-3.

Blacksmith's coat of arms, 6.

Bonds, voluntary, to abstain from gaming, 79.

Bras-de-fer, his moral exposition of a pack of cards, 320, 324.

Brietkopf's Inquiry into the Origin of Playing Cards, 7, 26, 225, 227, 239.

Briefe, the German name for cards, 26.

Briefmaler, 84.

Brunet, the younger, his note prefixed to a 'Notice Bibliographique sur les Cartes à jouer,' 100, 326.

Bullet's Recherches Historiques sur les Cartes à jouer, 27-8.

Buoninsegni's, Father Thomas, Discorso del Giuoco, 90.

Bussi's History of Viterbo, 23, 73.

Cabinet du Roi de France, cited, 111.

Capability of cards as a subject of disquisition, 2.

Capistran, John, his discourse against gaming at Nuremberg in 1452, 91.

Card-playing at Bologna in 1423, 90.

—— in Germany in the fifteenth century, 92.

Card-playing common in England as a Christmas game about 1484, 97.

—— in Scotland, 98, 110, 113.

—— at Rhodes in 1498, 99-100.

—— in Ireland and Spain, about 1590, 114-15.

—— in the reign of James I, 125.

—— in the reign of Charles II, 146-9.

—— in the reign of Queen Anne, 165.

—— in the reign of George II, 170-80.

—— in the reign of George III, 186.

Cards.—Hindostanee, 32-50.

—— Chinese, 55-9.

—— old stencilled, in the British Museum, 88.

—— Heraldic, 150. Historical, 153. Mathematical, 155. For carving, 156. Satirical, 157-9.

—— old painted, ascribed to Gringonneur, 195-8.

—— Dr. Stukeley's, 205.

—— old French, 211, 214.

—— old German, engraved on copper, 220-6.

—— engraved on copper, ascribed to Israel van Mecken, 226.

—— German, engraved on wood, 1511, 236.

—— French, of the time of Henry IV, 250.

—— Portuguese, of the date 1693, 251.

—— French Republican, 253-6.

—— American, 256.

Caricatures in the reign of George II, 181.

Cartas (Epistolæ) from Carthage, 26.

Cartes, chartæ, cards, probable etymology of, 20, 22.

Carving, cards teaching the art, 156.

Castillo's, Diego del, Satyra contra los Tahures, 115.

Catharine of Arragon, wife of Henry VIII, a card-player, 107.

Cervantes' Comical History of Rinconete and Cortadillo, 115.

Charta, paper, probable etymology of, 24.

Chaturanga, the Hindostanee name for chess, 16.

Cheating at cards, trial on the subject, 296.

Chess, said to have been invented by an Indian, 13.

Chesterfield, the Earl of, a card-player, 173.

Chinese cards, 55-9.

Christie, James, his inquiry into an ancient Greek game, 13.

Clubs for gaming, 170.

Cole's, Dr. loss of his commission, 327.

Collier, Jeremy, on gaming, 312.

Colours of the ground of the Hindostanee cards, 17, 35, 36, 37.

Comedy devised on the game of cards, 122.

Controversy on the lawfulness of playing at cards and other games of chance, 128, 279.

Cook's, Aurelian, Titus Britannicus, 145.

Cotta's Card Almanacs, 259.

Cotton's Complete Gamester, 159.

Counting and guessing, 11.

Covelluzzo's account of the introduction of cards into Viterbo, 23, 73.

Cuffe, secretary to the Earl of Essex, his fortunes told by cards, 119.

Curse of Scotland, 266-8.

Cyprian, St., his treatise, de Aleatoribus, 61, 290.

Daniel's, Père, Origine du Jeu de Piquet, 4, 209, 265.

Dictionary of the Spanish Academy; its sanction of a conundrum as an etymology of Naipes, 23.

Dominotiers, an old name for engravers and colourers of woodcuts, 87.

Ducange's glossaries, 63, 99.

Duchesne's, Observations sur les Cartes à jouer, and Précis Historique, 65, 99, 189, 204, 206, 210, 225.

Dunbar's, Wm., poems, 110; Valet of cards, 234.

Dutch names of the suits of cards, 230.

Elizabeth, Queen, a card-player, 120.

Engravings, a series of, improperly called Tarocchi cards, 199-204.

Epitaph on Beau Nash, 173; on a noble gambler, 297.

Equity, natural, how to be enforced in games of hazard, 287.

Evelyn's Memoirs, 146.

Exchequer, derivation of the word, 16, 21.

Fante, the Italian name for the Knave of cards, 229.

Fierge, the Pherz of Persian chess, 14.

Fleur-de-lis, on coat cards, and in the compass, 7.

Foreign Quarterly Review, article on Whist, 36.

Formschneider, a wood-engraver, as distinguished from a card-painter, 83.

Forret, Thomas, his objections to the manner in which many of the Scottish clergy, about 1539, spent their tithes, 111-12.

Fortune, the gambler's goddess, 11.

Fortune-telling by cards, 116-19.

Four Kings, a name given to cards, 19.

Franklin, Dr., his definition of man, 1.

Freret on the origin of chess, 14.

Furny card, explained, 109.

Game, the first played at, 9.

Games at cards in 1709, 159. Before the time of Charles II, 160.

Games, various, enumerated by Taylor, the water-poet, 163.

Games, three different species of, 294.

Gaming, excessive, of the French clergy, about 1580, 111.

Gammer Gurton's Needle, cards mentioned in, 109.

Gataker, Thos. B. D., on Lots, 129, 279.

Gebelin, Court de, finds in cards an abstract of Egyptian learning, 5; his explanation of the word Tarocchi, 189.

Geiler, John, his remarks on card-playing about 1508, 100.

Geographical cards, 150.

German cards, names of the suits, 228.

Gittern, guitar, derivation of the word, 25.

Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen, 61.

Gough's Observations on the Invention of Cards, 22.

Goyraud, Vincent, a French card-manufacturer, of the time of Henry IV, 249.

Grace's card, 266.

Gregory, Dr., reply of, respecting cards, 77.

Gringonneur, Jac., paints cards in 1393, 76.

Guevara's epistles translated into French by Gutery, 66.

Guilleville's, William de, Pelerinaige de l'Homme, 69.

Güldin Spil, 74.

Gungefu, the name for cards among the Moslems, in Hindostan, 41.

Heineken's Idée générale d'une Collection d'Estampes, 15, 27, 82, 228.

Helgen, a name given to woodcuts in Suabia, 87.

Heller's History of Wood-engraving cited, 91, 93.

Henry VII, a card-player, 98.

Henry VIII, Act of Parliament against card-playing, 108.

Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James I, a card-player, 125.

Heraldic cards, 150-2.

Herrera relates that Montezuma took pleasure in seeing the Spanish soldiers play at cards, 106.

Hieroglyphics, 6.

Hindostanee cards, 33-52.

Historical cards, relating to the Popish plot, and the death of Sir E. Godfrey, 153-5.

Homer, his notice of the games of Petteia and Astragali, 12.

Houbigant's Cartes Royales, 257.

Hoyle, Edmond, his treatise on Whist, 162, 170.

Hume, David, apostrophised as a whist-player, 160.

Hycke-Scorner, cards mentioned in, 108.

Hyde, Dr. T., De ludis orientalibus, 16, 265.

Ingilby, Sir Wm., his examination on the trial, Lord De Ros versus Cumming, 295.

Ingold, a Dominican friar, author of the Güldin Spil, 74.

Injunctions to the clergy, 1559, against card-playing, 121.

Interpolations of the word Cartes, in old MSS., 67-71.

Isis, the horned, the original of the Virgin with the crescent on her head, 5.

Italian names of the suits of French cards, 207.

Jackanapes, the probable etymology of the word, 231-5.

Jack at Warts—Jack o'Hearts, 235.

James IV of Scotland a card-player, 98.

James I of England a card-player, 126.

Jansen's Essai sur l'Origine de la Gravure, 67.

Jeux de Cartes, Barrington's opinion of the signification of the term, 78.

Johanneau, Eloi, on the etymology of Naipes, and the invention of cards, 27-30.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his opinion of card-playing, 302.

Jones, Sir Wm., on Chess, 15-17.

Jonson, Ben, his device for Abel Drugger's sign, 6.

Juggling tricks with cards, 118.

Junius, F., his explanation of the word Quartes, 22.

Justus, Pascasius, his work on gaming, 115, 174, 271.

Kartenmacher at Augsburg in 1418, 81; at Ulm, 82.

Knave, the original meaning of the word, 231.

Lassale, Antoine de, author of the Chronicle of Jehan de Saintré, 68.

Latrunculi, 12.

Leber's, M. C., Etudes Historiques sur les Cartes à Jouer, 8, 23, 73, 85, 103, 132, 155, 211-13, 217, 220, 240-9.

Le Normand, Mlle., the Parisian fortune-teller, 324.

Leo X, a trick of his at cards, 174.

List of specimens of cards published by the Society of Bibliophiles Français, Appendix, No. 1, 331.

List of works relating to cards, Appendix, No. 2, 334.

Locke, John, his opinion of card-playing, 302.

Lookup, the gamester, 173-6.

Loyola, St. Ignatius, wins, miraculously, at billiards, 292.

Lusty Juventus, cards mentioned in, 108.

Lyly, John, represents Cupid and Campaspe playing at cards, 123.

Lyndsay, Sir David, satirises the card-playing of the clergy in Scotland, about 1535, 110.

Machiavelli on Fortune, 10.

Madden's, Sir F., Privy-purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, 109.

Magasin Pittoresque, article on cards in, 71.

Manners in the time of Charles II, 143; George II, 176.

Manufacture of cards, extensive in Germany about 1450, 82; at Venice, 1441,194; in England, 131, 166, 272.

Mappa, its ancient meaning, 29.

Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, found playing at cards by her affianced husband, James IV of Scotland, 98.

Marks of the suits of cards, 206.

Martius, Galeottus, speculates on the meaning of the marks of the suits, 93.

Mary, the Princess, daughter of Henry VIII, afterwards queen, a card-player, 109.

Mary, daughter of James II, afterwards queen, a card-player, 146.

Mazarine, Cardinal, played at cards when dying, 310.

Mecken, Israel van, cards supposed to be engraved by, 226.

Meerman's reference to the chronicle of Petit-Jehan de Saintré, 68.

Menestrier's, Père, Bibliothèque curieuse et instructive, 3, 76, 80, 151, 191.

Meré, the Chevalier de, submits certain questions to Pascal respecting chances at play, 157. [See the treatise on Probability, by Lubbock and Drinkwater, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, p. 12; 41-50.]

Merrels, the game of, 13.

Meursius, de Ludis Græcorum, 5.

Millin's description of the Marquis Girolamo's cards, 229.

Morelli's chronicle, 73.

Moxon's cards for carving, 156; astronomical cards, 157.

Murner's Chartiludium, or logical card-play, 101-5.

Murr's, C. G. von, Journal, 75, 81, 85, 133, 226.

"Murry neet," in Cumberland, 185.

Nabob, the meaning of the word, 22.

Naibi, and Naipes, speculations on the name as applied to cards, 22-9.

Names of the suits of Hindostanee cards, 41-2; of German, Spanish, Italian, and French cards, 228.

—— given to coat cards, 208, 211, 215.

—— of particular cards, 265-9.

Nash, Beau, his reign at Bath, 171.

Nine of Diamonds,—the Curse of Scotland, 266-8.

Noctes Ambrosianæ., extract from, relative to card-playing, 303.

Ombre, Barrington's conjecture as to the time of its introduction into England, 145.

—— Pope's description of, frequently praised, 167.

One-and-thirty, a popular game at cards in Ireland and Spain, 115.

Pair of Cards, the old name for a pack, 269.

Pam, the Knave of Clubs, 269.

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.

Sheridan's character of the East India Company, 32.

Shufflers, diplomatic, 181.

Singer's Researches into the History of Playing Cards, 7, 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.

White's coffee-house, 161-2; club at, 178.

Wilson, Mr. T., old cards engraved on copper, formerly belonging to, 224.

Wilson, Professor, on card-playing, in the 'Noctes Ambrosianæ,' 303-7.

Wood-engraving, the earliest with an authentic date, 85.

Worcester, council of, prohibitions in its canons, 62.

Wuruq, a leaf, the name for a card with the Moslems in Hindostan, 25.

Xavier, St. Francis, card-playing in the East in his time, 53; his lenity towards gamesters, 307.

Yack an napes, Jackanapes, Jack-a-Naipes, the Knave of cards, 233.

Zani, P. on the Pipozzi MS., 65.

C. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.