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All Playes prohibited by the Kings Edicts, as Cards, Dice, and other Games of hazard, and those of cevetous∣ness, immodesty, scandal, or notorious loss of time, shall be suppressed, and the parties reproved and admonished by the Consistory, and Sensured as the Circumstances shall require: Lotteries also are not to be allowed, whither tolerated by the Magistrate or otherwise.
The 6th. * 1.1 universal Council made this Decree, con∣tain'd in the 50th. Cannon, That no Christian whether of the Clergy or Laity, do henceforth play at the game called Hazard, and if any be found doing it, if of the Clergy, that he be deposed, but if of the Laity that he be Excommuni∣cated.
Tom. 5. Conc. pag. 337.