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{{Game | {{Game | ||
|Term=Gidigadie | |Term=Gidigadie | ||
|Game Family= | |Game Family=Hook-em-snivy | ||
|Game Tags=Britain, Pre-1700 | |||
|Description=<p>Court records from 1583 [Elizabeth I was in her 25th year as queen] show a dim view of this game. “Whereas there is great abuse in a game or games used in the town called ‘Gidigadie or the Cat’s Pallet . . . ‘ no manner persion shall play at the same games, being above the age of seven years, either in the churchyard or in any streets of the this town, upon pain of . . . being imprisoned in the Doungeon for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet.</p> | |Description=<p>Court records from 1583 [Elizabeth I was in her 25th year as queen] show a dim view of this game. “Whereas there is great abuse in a game or games used in the town called ‘Gidigadie or the Cat’s Pallet . . . ‘ no manner persion shall play at the same games, being above the age of seven years, either in the churchyard or in any streets of the this town, upon pain of . . . being imprisoned in the Doungeon for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p><span>John Harland, ed., </span><em>A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the Sixteenth Century</em><span> (Chetham Society, 1884), page 156.</span></p> | |Sources=<p><span>John Harland, ed., </span><em>A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the Sixteenth Century</em><span> (Chetham Society, 1884), page 156.</span></p> | ||
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Revision as of 05:16, 24 June 2012
| Game | Gidigadie |
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| Game Family | Hook-em-snivy |
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| Tags | Britain, Pre-1700 |
| Description | Court records from 1583 [Elizabeth I was in her 25th year as queen] show a dim view of this game. “Whereas there is great abuse in a game or games used in the town called ‘Gidigadie or the Cat’s Pallet . . . ‘ no manner persion shall play at the same games, being above the age of seven years, either in the churchyard or in any streets of the this town, upon pain of . . . being imprisoned in the Doungeon for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet. |
| Sources | John Harland, ed., A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the Sixteenth Century (Chetham Society, 1884), page 156. |
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