Gambling With Dice in Tudor England
Jonathan April 30, 2020 13:59:47
Without a shadow of a doubt, gambling with dice was probably the most popular Tudor game of all. Now the government was in a constant war against the gambling of dice and tried time and again to limit the places and times when these games could be played. Their main concern wasn't some quaint religious reasoning. But because from around 1512 t the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, in 1603, regular archery practice was seen as a perquisite of medieval life. There was genuine concern that the "lower" orders were letting the gaming with dice take over these important skills.