Note 18 — INTRODUCTION

E.g., John Northbrooke: Treatise wherein Dicing, etc., ... are reproved ... Dialogue-wise, 1579 (Reprinted by the Shakespeare Society); Gilbert Walker: A Manifest Detection of the most Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice-play, 1552 (Reprinted by the Percy Society); and by educational writers, e.g., Roger Ascham: Toxophilus (1545), and Laurence Humphrey: The Nobles (1560). William Horman, headmaster of Eton College School, in his Vulgaria (in 1519) holds the opinion: “It is a shame that young gentlemen should lose time at the dice and tables, cards and hazard.”