4809.] 
The city itself had been repaired and 
beautified, at no small expence, for her 
Majesty’s Teception. Over the gate, be- 
rg the royal arms and the scutcheon of 
‘George, was her badge, a falcon, 
cia “« God and the Queen we serve,” be- 
neath. 
In St. Stephen’s-street was placed a 
pageant, alluding more immediately, in, 
its decorations, to the woollen manu- 
facture of the city. 
A second pageant “ thwarted the street 
at the entrance of the market,” and was 
replenished with five persunagés, -appa- 
relled like women, The first .was the 
city of Norwich; the second, Debora; 
the third, Judith; the fourth, Esther ; 
and.the fitth, Martia, sometime Queen 
of England: by each of whom, 10 turn, 
her Majesty was addressed in Enelish 
verse. Inimediately after p sassing which, 
one of the musicians sung a ditty. 
Leaving the market place, she went to 
the cathedral ; and, having attended 
service, retired. to. the bishop’s palace. 
Ail this was on Saturday the 16th of Aug. 
On the Monday. foilowing, Mercury 
was brought under the privie-chamber 
window, in a coach, “ strangely appa- 
ralled,” and informed her Majesty, that, 
should she be pleased to take the air, 
other ‘‘ devices” were to be seen. 
On the Tuesday, as the Queen was 
proceeding to Cussie Park to hunt, the 
minister of the Dutch church prunoun- 
cing a Latin oration, presented her with 
# cup worth fifty pounds; having an in- 
scription, not only.in the circumference, 
but within the brim. 
On the Wednesday slte received ano- 
ther oration from the master of the Grains 
mar-school, Stephen Limbart. 
On the Thursday evening, @ masque a 
gods and goddesses was represented, 
the Privie. chamber, when Mercury an- 
nounced to her Majesty, that Jupiter, 
Juno, Mars, Venus, Apuilo, Pallas, 
Neptune, Diana, and Cupid, were all 
come to bid her Majesty welcome to 
Norwich. Each, with a small present, 
addressed a couple of stanzas, and de- 
parted. Jupiter presented the Queen 
with a wand of wales-fin; Juno gave a 
purse ; Mars, a pair of knives: Venus, 
a white dove; Apollo, an instrument, 
called a bandonet; Pallas, a Book of 
Wisdom; Neptune, a pike; Diana, a 
bowe and arrowes ; and Cupid, an arrow 
of gold. 
The day following, the court removed. 
‘be streets were hung with cords made 
of herbs and flowers, with garlands, coro- 
nets, pictures, rich cloths, an@ a thou- 
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sand devices. At the gates, a short 
speech in poetry was addressed to her 
Majesty, by Bernard Goldingham, the 
author of the publication here abridged, 
And on the confines of the city liberties, 
the Queen, having received, in writing, 
two Latin orations, one of which was to 
have been spoken to her by the mayor, 
conferred on him the honour of knight» 
hood , and so departing, she shook “her 
riding-rod, and said, “ Farewell, Nor 
wich.” ii. 
The Compleat Gamester, or Instructions 
how to-play at all manner of usual and 
most gentile Games, either on Cards, 
Dice, Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, Chess, 
also the Arts od Mysteries of Riding, 
Racing, Ar chery, and Coc helivhting. 
HE edi tions of this work were pr inte 
ed in.the seventeenth, and beginning 
of the eighteenth century. The fol- 
lowing. extracts are from an edition: in 
1709, to which is added, “‘ The game at 
Basset, never before printed in English ” 
It has a frontispiece, in six compart 
ments, in one of which is the Bilhard- 
table, with the King and Port, as the 
game was formerly played ; aiid. fons 
another it appears, that some Backe 
gammon-tables stood upon legs, were 
very large, and formed a table of thems 
selves. 
The first extract I shall make, is from 
p. 9. of False Dice, which he observes; 
were introduced late at night, when the 
company grew thin, and their eyes were 
dim with watching, 
False dice he divides into High Fut- 
lams, 4,5, 6° Low Fullams, 1, 2, 3, and 
Bristle Dice. These, be says, “ are fit- 
ted for their purpose, by strvking a hog’s 
bristle so in the corners, or otherwise in 
the dice, that they shall run high or low, 
as they please; this bristle must be 
strong and short, by which means the 
bristle bending, it will not lie on that 
side, but will be tript over; and this is 
the newest way of making a high or low 
Fullam: the old ways are, by drilling 
them, and loading them with quicksilver ; 
but that cheat inay be easily discovered 
by their weight, or holding two corners 
between your forefinger and thumb 3 if 
holding them so gently between your fin- 
gers, they turn, you may then conclude 
them false; or you may try their fals~ 
hood Oh anrusey by breaking or splitting 
them ; others have made them, by filing 
and rounding : but all these ways fall 
short of the art of those who make them > 
some whereof are so admirably skilful, in 
inaking a bale of dice to run, what you 
would 
