The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 439
game isdescribed, and diagrams of the game given which had beenfound by him cut in a stone bench in the church of Ardeley,Hertfordshire, and elsewhere. He has also seen the gameplayed in London. It is evidently the same game as describedby Nares and Moor above. See Bridgeboard, Nine Mens Morris.… … Fig. Each of the two players has nine wooden pegs, which are eithercoloured or shaped differently, and the object of each player isto get three of his own pegs in a straight line (fig. i). It iscalled Merrils.—Sheffield (S. O. Addy). NINE MENS MORRIS 415 Cotgraves Dictionarie, 1632, says: Merelles,…
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