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Games unlawfull, 33 H. 8. chap. 9.
NOne for his lucre or gain ought to keep any House, Alley, or place of Bowling, Dicing, Tabling, Card∣ing, Tennis, or other unlawfull Gaming, upon pain every day forty shillings.
And every person using the same to loose for every time six shillings eight pence.
And if the Constables and Bailists do not make search every Moneth, they shall be amerced forty shillings the Moneth.
No Artificer, Husbandman, Handycrafts man, Appren∣tice, Journyman, or Servant of an Artificer, Marriners, Fishermen, Watermen, or any Servingman, ought to play at any unlawfull Games aforesaid, but at Christmas time upon paine to loose twenty shillings for every time, and in the Christmas to play in their Masters Houses, or in their presence.
No person ought to bowle in any place out of his Garden or Orchard, paine six shillings eight pence.
But it is lawfull for Noble men, and every one that may dispend a hundred pound per an. in Lands, or profits for life to licence their Servants and others coming to their Hou∣ses, to play at Bowles, Cards, Dice, and other unlawfull Games, and ought not to undergo the penalty of this Sta∣tute.