Imran's History of Games

> Dating Period card games

By Imran Ghory <imran@ghory.org>.

Games whose date is given as 1??? are those which I am currently researching.
All-Fours - 1674
Cotton, Compleat Gamester (1674).
Robert Dixon, Canidia (1683)
Thomas Durfey, "The marriage-hater match'd "(1692)
Peter Anthony Motteux, "Farewel folly" (1707)
Bankafalet - 1674
Cotton, Compleat Gamester (1674).
R. Holme, Academy of armory (1688).
Basset - 1645
John Evelyn, Memoirs (1645)
Nahum Tate, Cuckolds-haven (1685)
John Banks, Cyrus the Great (1696)
Beast - 1653
Urquhart, translation of Rabelais's "Gargantua" (1653)
R. Holme, Academy of armory (1688).
Beggar my neighbour - 1???
Poor Robin's Almanack (1734)
Hannah Cowley, "More ways than one" (1784)
George Daniel, "The Disagreeable surprise" (1826)
Bone-ace - 1611
John Florio, "English-Italian dictionary" (1611)
Machivelli, "Dogge" (1617)
Richard Brome, "The new academy" (1640)
Brag - 1714
Lucas, "Lives of gamesters" (1714)
Comet - 1685
Letter of Edward Bedingfield to Katherine, Countess Rutland (1685)
Thomas Shadwell, Bury-fair (1689)
Commerce - 1732
Delany, Autobiography (1732)
Burney, "Early Diary" (20 April 1770)
James Planche, "High, low, jack, and the game" (1831)
Costly-Colours - 1674
Cotton, Compleat Gamester (1674).
Cribbage - 1630
Brathwait, "English gentleman" (1630)
Crimp - 1632
B. Jonson, "Magnetik Lady" (1632)
Thomas Shadwell, "A true widow" (1679)
Thomas D'Urfey, "A fool's preferment" (1688)
Cross-ruff - 1718
Robert Greene, "The Defence of Conny-Catching" (1592)
Robert Dixon, "Candia" (1683)
Poor Robin's Almanac (1693)
Dubble ruffe - 1607
Thomas Heywood, "A woman kilde with kindnesse" (1607)
Faro - 1718
de Moivre, "The doctrines of chance" (1718)
Gleek - 1522
H. Watson, "The Chirche of the Evyll" (1522)
Elyot, "Knowledge" (1533)
Letter from Sir William Kingson to Lord Lisle (24 June 1533)
Gresco - 1605
George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston, "Eastward hoe" (1605)
Richard Brome, "The new academy" (1640)
Hole - 1621
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)^M
Imperial - 1532
Privy Purse Expences of King Henry 8 (7 October 1532)
Nicholas Breton, "workes of a young wyt" (1577)
"Sporting Magazine" XII (1798)
Laugh and lie down - 1522
Skleton, "Why not to court" (1522)
Loadum - 1591
Florio, "Second Fruites" (1591)
Minsheu, "Spanish Dictionary" (1599)
Thomas Heywood, "A woman kilde with kindnesse" (1607)
Mack - 1548
W. Forrest, "The pleasant poesye of princely practice" (1548)
Maw - 1575
Turberv, "Faulconrie" (1575)
The Groome-Porter's Laws at Mawe (a. 1597)
Samuel Rowlands "letting of humours blood" (1600)
Mount cent - 1599
Minsheu, "Spanish Dictionary" (1599)
Gervase Markham, "The Famous Whore" (1609)
My Ladies hole - 1619
Thomas Middleton, "The Inner-Temple masque" (1619)
Richard Brome, "The new academy" (1640)
My-sow-pigg - 1619
Thomas Middleton, "The Inner-Temple masque" (1619)
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
(My Sow's Pig'd) Burney, "Early Diary" (20 April 1770)
New-cut - 1591
Greene, "Notable Discovery of Coosnage" (1591)
Florio, Trinca (1598)
John Lane, "Tom Tel-Troths Message" (1600)
Thomas Heywood, "A woman kilde with kindnesse" (1607)
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
Noddy - 1589
Thomas Nash's "Almond for Parrat" (1589)
Samuel Rowlands "letting of humours blood" (1600)
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
Ombre - 1660
"The Royal game of the ombre" (1660).
R. Holme, Academy of armory (1688).
One and thirty - 1522
H. Watson, "The Chirche of the Evyll" (1522)
Greene, "Notable Discovery of Coosnage" (1591)
One and thirty Bone-Ace
Thomas Baker, "An act at Oxford" (1704)
Colley Cibber, The provok'd husband (1728)
Piquet - 1646
(picket) J. Hall, "Horae vacivae" (1646)
The royall & delightfull game of picquet (1651)
Poor and rich - 1621
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
Pope Joan - 1???
"Connoisseur" Number 52 (1755)
Burney, "Early Diary" (20 April 1770)
George Daniel, "The Disagreeable surprise" (1826)
Post - 1528
Jerome Barlow and and William Roye, "Rede me and be nott wrothe" (1528)
Post and pair - 1579
"Cyvile and uncyvile life" (1579)
Thomas Heywood, "A woman kilde with kindnesse" (1607)
(Post and payre) John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
Primero - 1532
Privy Purse Expences of King Henry 8 (6 October 1532)
Elyot, "Knowledge" (1533)
Primo visto - 1591
Greene, "Notable Discovery of Coosnage" (1591)
(Primavista) Florio, "Worlde of wordes" (1598)
(Primiuiste) Thomas Middleton, "The Inner-Temple masque" (1619)
(Primofistula) Richard Brome, "The new academy" (1640)
Put - 1629
T. Crosfield, Diary (1629)
Quadrille - 1726
"The game of quadrille" (1726)
Ruffe - 1579
"Cyvile and uncyvile life" (1579)
Samuel Rowlands "letting of humours blood" (1600)
Thomas Heywood, "A woman kilde with kindnesse" (1607) *
Sant - 1532
(Saunt) Tottel, "Dice Play" (1532).
Letter from Earl of Southampton to King Henry VIII (13th December 1539).
(Sant) Greene, "Notable Discovery of Coosnage" (1591)
(Saut) Richard Brome, "The new academy" (1640).
Sichie - 1652
Richard Brome, "The new academy" (1640)
Slam - 1621
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
Snip-snap-snorum - 1???
"Connoisseur" Number 52 (1755)
Speculation - 1804
Jane Austen, "Watsons" (1804)
James Planche, "High, low, jack, and the game" (1879)
Swabbers - 1704
Thomas Baker, "An act at Oxford" (1704)
Fielding, "History of Mr Jonathan Wild" (1743)
Tickle me quicklie - 1619
Thomas Middleton, "The Inner-Temple masque" (1619)
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
Richard Brome, "The new academy" (1640)
Trump - 1522
H. Watson, "The Chirche of the Evyll" (1522)
Uptails - 1694
Poor Robin (December 1694)
Whisk - 1621
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
R. Holme, Academy of armory (1688).
Whip-her-ginny - 1560
Misogonus (1560)
John Taylor, Taylor's Motto (1621)
Wit and reason - 1674
Cotton's Compleat Gamester (1674).

Thanks to the OED, the libraries of Bristol University, and the people on the hist-games mailing list for providing corrections, in particular Thierry Depaulis who provided a number of corrections and additions.