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BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
The standard and most comprehensive work is Joseph Strutt, The Sports and
Pastimes of the People of England, first published in 1801; new edition by J. C. Cox
(London, 1903), but it is much in need of revision, E. K. Chambers, The
Medieval Stage, z vols, (Oxford, 1903) is invaluable. The two volumes by H. J. R.
Murray, A History of Chess (Oxford, 1913) and A History of Board'Games other than
Chess (Oxford, 1952), are the authoritative works on these subjects. Catherine P.
Hargrave has written a careful History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards
and Gaming (Boston, 1930). John Stow has incorporated in his Survey of London,
ed. C. L. Kingsford (Oxford, 1908), with other material William FitzStephen's
famous account of London games in the twelfth century. The English medieval
literature on is hunting contained in The Master of Game by Edward, second duke
of York, ed. W. A. and F. BailliexGrohman (London, 1904). Much useful inform
mation on Falconry may be found in the elaborate edition of Frederick IFs treatise
on the Art of Falconry,
ed. C. A. Wood and F. Marjorie Fife (Stamford Univ.
Press, 1943). The excellent essay by N. DenholnvYoung on *The Tournament in
the Thirteenth Century* in Studies in Medieval to
History presented F. M. Powicke
(Oxford, 1948) should be consulted for the early history of this martial exercise in
England. See also F. H. CrippsXDay, The Tournament (1918). The laws forbidding
games are mostly contained in the Statutes of the Realm (Record Commission), i-ii
(1810). Useful information on sports of various kinds can be found from the
accounts of the Privy Purse. See particularly
the Privy
Purse Expenses of Elizabeth
of
York and Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV (London, 1830), Privy Purse Expenses of
Henry VIII 1529-32 (London, 1827), all edited by Sir N. Harris Nicolas; and exx
tracts from the Privy Purse Expenses 1491-1505 contained in Excerpta Historica,
ed. S. Bendey (London, 1831). The most recent History of Football is by Morris
Marples (London, 1954).