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XXV. Some Remarks on the European Names of Chessmen, in a Letter from Francis Douce, Esq. to the Rev. Mr. Brand, Secretary

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I Have to request you will present to the Society of Antiquaries the following observations relating to Chess, which may be considered as supplementary to those already communicated by our worthy member, the honourable Daines Barrington.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1792

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page 397 note [a] Archsologia, vol. IX. p. 16.

page 398 note [b] Asiatic Researches, or Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal for enquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia. Calcutta, 1788, 1790, 4to. vol. II. p. 159.

page 399 note [c] Hydedeludis Orientalibus. Oxon. 1694, 12mo. p. 77.

page 400 note [d] Mem. de I'Acad. des Inscriptions & Belles Lettres, tom. V.

page 400 note [e] Gesta Romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis & mysticis, sine anno aut loco. Folio, cap. CLXVI. The Queen is likewise called Virgo in a work of uncertain date, cited p. 404.

page 401 note [f] De ludis oriental, p. 95.

page 403 note [g] De ludis oriental, p. 77.

page 403 note [h] Cleopat. B. IX.

page 404 note [i] Fabric. Biblioth. Lat.. I. 276, & Biblioth. med. & infimæ Latinitatis, V. 556.

page 404 note [k] Deludis oriental, p. 179.

page 405 note [l] Deludis oriental. p. 133.

page 405 note [m] Chess, 1787, 8vo. p. 3. The figure of-this Pawn was not published with the book.

page 405 note [n] See a representation of such a helmet in Grofe's Treatise on Antiént Armour and Weapons, Plate IX. Nos. 6, 10, II.

page 406 note [o] See Gwilliim's Display of Heraldrie, 1632, solio, p. 321.

page 407 note [p] De ludis oriental pp. 70, 133.

page 407 note [q] Bibliotheque Orientale, fol. 1697, p. 718.

page 407 note [r] Paulus Venetus de Regionibus Orientalibus. Brandenburg, 1671, 4to. Lin. III. cap. 40.

page 407 note [s] Asiatic Researches, P. 162.

page 408 note [t] De ludis oriental. p. 78.

page 408 note [u] In the Romance of the Rose they are called “Garçons.”

page 409 note [u] De ludis oriental, p. 79.

page 409 note [x] Glosiarium med. & insimæ Latinitatis, torn. VI. p. 169.

page 409 note [y] Chess. 1789, vol. II. p. 4.

page 409 note [z] Ibid. pp. 350, 351.