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|Term=Gidigadie | |Term=Gidigadie | ||
|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy | |Game Family=Hook-em-snivy | ||
|Game | |Game Regions=Britain | ||
|Description=<p>Court records from 1583 [Elizabeth I was in her 25th year as queen] show a dim view of this game. | |Game Eras=Pre-1700 | ||
|Sources=<p><span>John Harland, ed., | |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> | |||
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Revision as of 10:38, 4 July 2012
| Game | Gidigadie |
|---|---|
| Game Family | Hook-em-snivy |
| Location | |
| Regions | Britain |
| Eras | Pre-1700 |
| Invented | |
| Tags | |
| 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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