Note 129 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.

Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII, afterwards Queen Mary. With a Memoir of the Princess, and Notes, by Fred. Madden, Esq., F.S.A. 1831. From the following references in the index, the reader may judge of Mary's partiality to the game.

"Cards, money delivered to the Princess to play at, p. 3, 10, 11, 14, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 35, 49, 50, 55, 57, 59, 67, 69, 73, 76, 81, sæpe, 101."

"Cards, money lent, to play at, 4, 13, 29, 30."

The sums delivered are mostly from 20s. to 40s. One entry is for so small a sum as 2s. 2d., and another for 12s. 6d.