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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… suggests that at least sometimes quadrille involved gambling. Not found in the OED online See also QUADRILLE …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Pourvye when in the Low Countries with Sir Thos. Cecill. Gambling transactions with Sir Thomas. Complains of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Reach and the supposedly resulting Sabbath breaking, gambling, and cock and prize fighting, began to preach there …
Register & Records of Holm Cultram
… when he tried to cure individual cases of drunkenness and gambling, by getting Hugh Cogton to pledge 5s. 'for 6d. I …
Survey of London
… 1897, vol. iv, p. 142, contains an account of Scott's gambling technique. 100. Soane Museum, Holland notebook, R. …
Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London
… ( ad talos) at night, leading apprentices into gambling habits, and using threats against citizens and …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… Holiness' service was going awry, and that everyone was gambling at his Holiness' expense. Despite all the ill …
Survey of London Monograph
… Haileybury; Rouge Dragon 1886; bankrupt 1889 owing to gambling, etc. ( Punch, 2 November; The Times, 29 November); …