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 (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 392
108. Tables.—XIII. Century. The original of the engraving occurs in a beautifully illu-minated manuscript in the Ilarleian Collection.^ The table,]as here delineated, is not divided in the middle, but the points,] Du Cange, Gloss, ia voce Tabula.3 ]\o. 1527. 3 See the Introduction. CHAP. II. OF THE… … 109. Tables.—XIV. Centuey. In this the division is fairlj made, but the points are notdistinguished by different colours, according to the present, andindeed more ancient usage. The writer of the latter manuscript,which is in the Kings Library,^ says, There are many methodsof playing at tlie tables…
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