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 (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 373
ergymen andbishops are fond of dice-playing.^ Ill—ANCIENT DICE-BOX—ANECDOTE RELATING TO FALSE DICE.The common method of throwing the dice is with a hollowcylinder of wood, called the dice-box, into which they are put,and thence, being first shaken together, thrown out upon thetable; but in one of… … 99. Old Dice-box. The dice are thrown into the receptacle at the top, whencethey fall upon the circular part of the table below, which is Isidorus Originutn, lib. xviii. cap. 60. ^ Lib. i. * See the Introduction. * De Nug. Curialium, lib. i. cap. 5. » Orderic. Vital, p. 550. « Orbis Sensualium…
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