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 486 Hiftory of Domejiic Mafiti^ ers frequently mentioned. They formed the common amufement in the courts of Scotland and England under the reigns of Henry VII. and James IV. j and it is recorded that when the latter monarch paid his firft No. 311. A Gambling Party of the Sixteenth Century. vifit to his affianced bride, the young princefs Margaret of England, " he founde the queue playing at the cardes." In Germany at this time card-playing was carried to an extravagant degree, and it became an objeft of attack and fatire to the reformers among the clergy. Our cut No. 312 reprefents a German card-party in a tavern, taken from an early painted coffer in the Mufeum of Old German Art at Nuremberg. The defign of the cards is that of packs of fancifully ornamented cards made in Germany at the clofe of the fifteenth century. The German fatirifls of that age complain that the rage for gambling