Note 176 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.
Reading edition
In Heath's Chronicles, a right loyal publication, it is said that Dr. Dorislaus,—the Parliamentary envoy, who was assassinated at the Hague in May, 1649,—was accustomed to play at cards on Sundays at Sir Henry Mildmay's, in Essex.—The Democracy, or pretended free State, being the 2d part of the Brief Chronicle of the late intestine War, p. 435. Edit. 1662.