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Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theologicalOf the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall
Of the nature and use of lots a treatise historical and theological; written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. sometime preacher at Lincolns Inn, and now pastor of Rotherhith.Of the nature and vse of lots a treatise historicall and theologicall; written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. sometime preacher at Lincolnes Inne, and now pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin, 1619
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 8. For the Laws of our Land how unfitly they are alleged to the present purpose, to wit, ito prove dice to be evil and utterly to be condemned, yea or generally prohibited, Cards and Tables being notwithstanding allowed and approved; may appear by a particular survey both of the Laws to that end cited, as also of others that have since in later times been enacted.
§. 8. For the Lawes of our Land how vnfitly they are alleadged to the present purpose, to wit, ito proue dice to bee euill and vtterly to bee condemned, yea or generally prohibited, Cards and Tables being notwithstanding allowed and approued; may appeare by a particular surueigh both of the Lawes to that end cited, as also of others that haue since in later times beene enacted.
- iSee Babington on Command. 8.
The kfirst Law wherein dice are said to be generally forbidden, enacteth only that All servants of husbandry, labourers, servants of any artificer or victualler shall have bow and arrows, and use the same on Sundays and Holidays; and shall leave all playing at Tennis, foot-ball, quoits, dice, casting of the stone, kayles, and other such importune games. The lnext Act imposing a penalty of 6. days imprisonment upon all offenders against the former. The mthird of them discovereth the main scope of these acts, namely, to bring in a more frequent use of the bow, because the defence of the Land was much then by Archers: and withal giveth divers other grounds of the former prohibitions then revived and renewed, to wit, sundry unlawful games as closh, kayles, bowls, qeckbord &c. newly invented, gaming houses erected and so commonly employed; Gamesters thereby impoverished; murders and robberies occasioned &c. Whereupon