Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber.

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each card has at the top a ruled-off space, containing on the left a
suitmark and on the right a numeral or title. Backs plain. In
modern leather-covered case.
31 x 2 in. [S. Vol. I, pI. 10-13.]
An early impression of this set is in the old Museum collection
(Willshire, 188.)
58. History, 1679. The pretended " Popish Plot "of 1678. Complete
pack, similar to the last, but printed from different plates. In
this set the court cards have medallion portraits of royal personages,
the knaves being Popes. The set is highly coloured and enclosed in
its original case of embroidered silk. Backs decorated with a
black geometrical pattern.
[S. Vol. I, pl. 14.]
59. History, 1679. The pretended " Popish Plot " of 1678. Imperfect
pack of 41, copied in reverse from No. 57. In this set the value
of each card is indicated by a suitmark and numeral or title on
a tablet in upper left corner. The missing cards are:-the knave
of hearts; the 6, 7, 9 and queen of diamonds; the 3, 4, 10, knave
and king of spades; and the 8 of clubs. Backs plain.
38 x 2 in. [S. Vol. 1, pI. 14.]
60. History. The Rump Parliament. Complete pack, engraved in
the same style as No. 57, satirising the rule of Oliver Cromwell
during the period of the Rump Parliament 1648-53. Each card
has a title at the bottom and a ruled-off space at the top containing
a suitmark and numeral or title. Backs plain. This set was
formerly in the possession of Earl Nelson. (For a detailed
description see Journal of the Archieological Association, ix,
129, 308.)
3 x 2k in. [S. Vol. I, pI. 15-18.]
*** Only two other sets of these cards are known to exist, one
being in America; the other, which has been recently discovered and
acquired by Mr. J. Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A., possesses an engraved
title-card, a cartouche supported by satirical figures and inscribed
"The Knavery of the Rump, Liuely represented in a Pack of Cards.
To be sold by R. T. near Stationers Hall and at the black Bull in
Cornhill."
61. History. The Rump Parliament. Reproduction in photolithography
of the above pack, published by the Aungervyle Society. In cardboard case lettered "A Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards, temp.
Charles II, forming a complete Political Satire of the Commonwealth. E. & G. Goldsmid, Edinburgh."
* At the time this set of facsimiles was executed the ace and
three of hearts in the original pack had been mislaid; their places
were therefore filled fromnt other source3.