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Rh Six such catalogues are preserved; one in the "Anatomy of Melancholy," a second in a well-known treatise of James I., and a third in the "Cotswold Games," with three others.

I. For the first catalogue, Strutt reminds us of the set of rules from the hand of James I. for the "nurture and conduct of an heir-apparent to the throne," addressed to his eldest son, Henry Prince of Wales, called the BAΣIAIKΟN ΔΩPON, or a "Kinge's Christian Dutie towards God." Herein the king forbids gaming and rough play: "As to diceing, I think it becometh best deboshed souldiers to play on the heads of their drums. As to the foote-ball, it is meeter for laming, than making able, the users thereof." But a special commendation is given to certain games of ball; "playing at the catch or tennis, pallemalle, and such like other fair and pleasant field-games." Certainly cricket may have been included under the last general expression, though by no means a fashionable game in James's reign.

II. For the second catalogue of games, Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," "the only book," said Dr. Johnson, "that ever took me out of bed two hours sooner than I wished to rise,"— gives a view of the sports most prevalent in the seventeenth century. Here we have a very full enumeration: it specifies the pastimes of "great men," and those of "base inferior persons;" it