. The Archaeological journal. were attheir books within the Cloister. For to that purposethere was a Porter appointed to keep the Cloister door.^ We have moreover curious evidence that the north alleyat Gloucester was appropriated to the novices in thetraces of the games they played at in their idle the stone bench against the wall are scratched a numberof diagrams of the form here represented: \ / \ / \ / \ / / \ / / \ \ / / \. 2 13 DIAGRAMS OF GAMES IX THE CLOISTER AT GLOVCESTER. The lirst, of which there are several, is for playing thegame called Nine Mens Morris, from each player
. The Archaeological journal. were attheir books within the Cloister. For to that purposethere was a Porter appointed to keep the Cloister door.^ We have moreover curious evidence that the north alleyat Gloucester was appropriated to the novices in thetraces of the games they played at in their idle the stone bench against the wall are scratched a numberof diagrams of the form here represented: \ / \ / \ / \ / / \ / / \ \ / / \. 2 13 DIAGRAMS OF GAMES IX THE CLOISTER AT GLOVCESTER. The lirst, of which there are several, is for playing thegame called Nine Mens Morris, from each player havingnine pieces or men. The other two are for playingvarieties of the game of Fox and Geese. kSucli traces ofgames may generally be found on the bench tables ofcloisters, where they have not been restored, andexcellent examples remain at Canterbury, Westminster, 1 Rites, 71, 72. ST. PETER AT GLOUCESTER. 101 Salisbury, and elsewhere, though they have not receivedthe attention they deserve.^ At Gloucester they are almost exclusively confined tothe novices alley, the only others now to be seen in thecloister beinsr an unfinished Nine Mens Morris board inthe south alley and one or two crossed squares in the westalley. The nortli alley wall towards the iyarth is divided intoten bays. Of these, the five eastern bays have the usualwindow of six lights in the upper Jialf, but the lower halfcontained six small openings, all now bricked
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