| “There is a curious little alphabet game of this time, each card having two rows of letters upon it and through the space in the middle runs a couplet.... The usual suit signs are placed diagonally on each card, and its value designated by Roman numerals, while the court cards and aces are marked by the letters L, C, D, and M. It is hard to tell whether they are meant for a children’s game or as a sort of ecclesiastical calendar, which many of the couplets seem to imply. They are probably the Scholer’s Practicall Cards published by F. Jackson, M.A., in 1656.” |
