The sports and pastimes of the people of England including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time / By Joseph Strutt. Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings.

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Credit: The sports and pastimes of the people of England including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time / By Joseph Strutt. Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —24. Bien fort—25. Fol si prent—26. Ly envoyons--27. Le seou sey envoye—28. Le veyl conu—29. Le haut enprise 30. De cmiilut—31. Ky put se prenge—32. La batalie sans airay—33. Le tret emble, two ways—34. Ly desperes—35. Ly marvel ious, two ways—36. Ne poun ferce home fet—37* Muse vyleyn 38. Do dames et de damoyceles—39. Fol si sey fie, two ways—40. Mai veysyn, two ways—41. Je mat de forces—42. Flour de guys—43. La batalie de rokes—44, Double eschec. J. The knights’game—2. The ladies’game—3. The damsels’ game—4. The same of the alfins—5. The ring—6. The agree- ment—7. Self-confounded—8. Ill placed or bad enough—9. Day by day—10. The foreign point—11. The loser wins—12. He that gives not what he esteems, shall not take that he desires —1.3. Well found—14. Fair and small—15. Craft surpasses strength—16. He that is bountiful is wise—17, Who gives gains—18. Subtilty and covetousness—19. Agreement makes law—20. He sees his play at hand who sees it at a distance —^21. Misfortunes make a man think—22. The chace of the knight—23. The chace of the queen and the knight—24. Very strong—25. He is a fool if he takes—^26. The messengers— 27. Sent by his own party—28. The old one known—29. The high place taken—30, Perhaps for conduit, managed or con- ducted—31. Take if you can—32. The battle without arrange- ment—33. The stolen blow — 34. The desperates—35. The wonder—36. A pawn cannot make a queen—37. The clown’s lurking place—38. The ladies and the damsels—39. A fool if he trusts—40. Bad neighbour—41. I mate the queen—42. The flower or beauty of the games—^43. The battle of the rooks— 44. Double chess. X,—ANCIENT GAMES SIMILAR TO CHESS. The ancient pastimes, if more than one be meant, which bear the names of Indus latrunculorum, Indus calculorum, et Indus scrupulorum, have been generally considered as similar to chess, if not precisely the same; but the authors of the Encyclopedic Fraii9oise, assure us they did not bear any resemblance to it, at least in those essential parts of the game which distinguish it from all others; but were played with stones, shells, or counters. The ancients, we are told, used little stones, shells, and nuts, in making their calculations without the assistance of writing. These little stones were called by the Greeks ypr]<poi, and calculi or scrupuli by the Romans; and such articles, it is