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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… displeased. A new play, the plot of which is a game of chess, in which the whole Spanish business is taken up, and …
Survey of London
… Club. 78 e This was succeeded in 1888 by the British Chess Club until 1897. 10 At some period subsequent to 1880 …
Old and New London
… on his water-tours along with his ladies, in order to play chess, &c., and that the chair found was the same in which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… chief charged with three lozenges, on the middle lozenge a chess-rook, for Arderne, ( b) a bend cotised with a molet … molets thereon, ( d) a cheveron engrailed between three chess-rooks; indent for marginal inscription; sides of clunch …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to a proposal to buy novels for the library, tried to ban chess and draughts, and alleged that Sunday opening was being …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Bedsteads, with mahogany feet-posts, handsome Sofa, Work, Chess & Card Tables in fancy woods, Cabinets, Secretaire & …
A History of the County of Essex
… 63 Gambling and dicing were commonplace, and in 1373 a chess player was accused of playing all night in a tavern. 64 …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… the Natural History Society (founded in 1859), the Chess Club ( c. 1860), the Minster Choral Society (1865), and …
Modern Britain and Ireland - awarded 2000-2009
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… Categories: 18th-19th Century History of correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland. Harding, Timothy Ph.D., Trinity … Chronological coverage: 19282008 Index terms: Games; Chess; Correspondence chess; Ireland Categories: 20th Century Homosexuality and …