 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1847 - 518 pages
...cellar were tight and full, and to draw out the lees from casks that were nearly empty. GROOM-PORTER. An officer of the royal household whose business it...tables, chairs, stools, and firing ; as also to provide carda, dice, &c. and to decide disputes arising at games. Formerly he was allowed to keep an open gambling... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...household. His 1 This is also in Herrick's Hesperides, p. 374. business was to see the king's lodgings furnished with tables, chairs, stools, and firing...decide disputes arising at cards, dice, bowling, &c. From allusions in some of Ben Jonson's and of Chapman's plays, it appears that he was allowed to keep... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1850 - 526 pages
...and full, and to draw out the lees from casks that were nearly empty. GROOM-PORTER.' Anofficerofthe royal household whose business it was to see the king's...cards, dice, &c. and to decide disputes arising at games. Formerly he was allowed to keep an open gambling «able at Christmas. Nares, in v. Loaded dice... | |
 | ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 494 pages
...in the gnsping of the evening. GROOM-PORTER. " An officer of the royal household, whose business is to see the king's lodging furnished with tables, chairs,...decide disputes arising at cards, dice, bowling, &c." Chamb. Diet. Formerly he was allowed to keep an open gambling table at Christmas. Evpn. Engl., sign.... | |
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1859 - 502 pages
...evening. Eupk. Eiiyl., sign. С 1. GROOM-PORTER. " An officer of the royal household, whose business is to see the king's lodging furnished with tables, chairs, stools, and firing ; ¡is also to provide cards, dice, &c., and to decide disputea arising at cards, dice, bowling, &c."... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 338 pages
...told, still occurs in the enumeration of the palace household. The groom-porter of old is described as an officer of the Royal household whose business it...was to see the King's lodging furnished with tables, stools, chairs, and firing; as also to provide cards, dice, &c., and to decide disputes arising at... | |
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1867 - 500 pages
...Supi. Engl., sign. С 1. GROOM-PORTER. " An officer of the royal household, whose business is to gee the king's lodging furnished with tables, chairs,...decide disputes arising at cards, dice, bowling, &c." Chamb. Diet. Formerly he was allowed to keep an open gambling table at Christmas. He will win you By... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 576 pages
...rightly. P. 100. Where is the doctor f\ The folio reads, "Where is this Doctor?" also to provide cards and dice, &c., and to decide disputes arising at cards, dice, bowling, &c." Mary, the youngest sister of Lady Jane Grey, was in 1553 led into a degrading marriage with Martin... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 628 pages
...the king's lodgings furnished with tables, chairs, stools and firing ; and also to provide cards and dice, &c., and to decide disputes arising at cards, dice, bowling, &c." Mary, the youngest sister of Lady Jane Grey, was in 1553 led into a degrading marriage with Martin... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 576 pages
...the king's lodgings furnished with tables, chairs, stools and firing ; and also to provide cards and dice, &c., and to decide disputes arising at cards, dice, bowling, &c." Mary, the youngest sister of Lady Jane Grey, was in 1553 led into a degrading marriage with Martin... | |
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Anofficer of the royal household whose business it was to see the king's lodging furnished with tables, chairs, stools and firing ; as also to provide cards, dice, &c and to decide disputes arising at games. 
