Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 288
GAMES AND PASTIMES. z34 Shuttlecock, &c. It was Charles V. who first thought of giving a more serious and useful character to the games of the people, and who, in a celebrated edict forbidding games of chance, encouraged the establishment of companies of archers and bowmen. These companies, to… … Fig. 178. — The Spring-board. — Fac-simile of a Woodcut in "Exercises in Leaping and Vaulting," by A. Tuccaro : 4to (Paris, 1599). At all times and in all countries the games of chance were the most popular, although they were forbidden both by ecclesiastical and royal authority. New laws were…
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