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Old and New London
… 200 crowns. 'At all,' quoth the Cardinal, and so cast the dice, and won them all at a cast, whereat was great joy made. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… mathematical and equally placed and inlaid with chances of dice, as may prevent all cheating thereat;" and also for the use of a new sort of dice cut perfectly square by a mould with spots stained … to prevent deceipts at play; he having observed that the dice commonly made are very unequally cut, and that the spots …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… a hundred pistols each, to meet you half way with box and dice." Seal. [ Ibid., No. 139.] Sept. 23. At the Camp of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… and care, assisted by a Dutchman, he invented a sort of dice known by the name of the "Mathematicks." Prays that a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… He likewise discovered, some years ago, a new sort of dice known as "mathematical dice." These mathematical dice and tables may, he finds, be counterfeited, and so the …
Statutes of the Realm
… throw at any such Lottery or any other Lottery either by Dice Lotts Cards Balls or any other Numbers or Figures or any …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… kept his hall for all comers that were willing to play at dice and hazard" ('Survey,' Thoms's edition, p. 41). 1 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was supported by the corporation. 23 Cards and dice were played in the town's many alehouses. 24 Woodstock's …