“ He wins the tack, turns it down, and begins again. He who is first out receives from his adversaries a fish, or a bean, as the case may be, for each unplayed card. If seize have any particular signification, it may be the French sixteen, and in that case, if fifteen-noddy were made unlawful, they might play it with an additional point, just as ten pins may have been substituted for nine pins. Maw was played with a piquet pack of thirty-six cards, and any number of persons from two to six formed the party of players. At ruff, the greatest sort of the suit carried away the game ”

“ Whoever is touched is condemned to replace the toucher in the linked couple. Shove-groat is a variety of the old game of shovel-board. A shilling or other smooth coin was placed on the extreme edge of the shovel-board, and propelled towards a mark by a smart stroke with the palm of the hand. Sometimes a groat-piece was used, and in the present times a halfpenny; and the game of shove-halfpenny is mentioned in the Times of April 25, 1845, as then played by the lower orders. ”

“ Chess is never likely to be obsolete. Pue is probably a misprint for put, a game at cards, still lingering in some districts. It was in vogue in the seventeenth century. Inkhorn is not known as a game. ”

“ These kayle-pins were afterwards called kettle or kittle-pins, and hence, by an easy corruption, skittle-pins. The game of skittles, however, differs materially from nine-pins, though requiring the same number of pins. At nine-pins, the player stands at a distance settled by mutual consent of the parties, and casts the bowl at the pins; the point is to beat them all down in the fewest throws. Skittles is played by bowling and tipping ”

“ They find themselves unable, call for help, and gradually the whole company take part, when dun is extricated of course; the fun consisting in the awkward and affected efforts of the rustics to lift the log, and sundry arch contrivances to let the ends of it fall on one another's toes. Chaucer and Ben Johnson have references to it. Shoot-cock is the same with our shuttlecock; was played by boys in the fourteenth century, and was a fashionable pastime among grown persons in the reign of James I. Gregory was a children's game of the sixteenth century. ”

“ Pick-point, top and scourge, to make him hot."
These lines have been erroneously attributed by Baines, in his "History of Lancashire" (ii. 579) , to the second Randle Holme, who merely quoted them as descriptive of Lancashire games and sports in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are from Samuel Rowland's "Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-Vaine" (1600) . ”