Games in such clubs ranged from poker, through roulette to location-specific pastimes such as the Montreal dice game barbotte.

Although the Hampden Park blood bath of '94 caused Yale and Harvard to break off football relations for the next two years, they kept close watch on each other.

We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.

In some instances the inside door to the nave from a porch entrance would be overlooked by a similar structure to a bretache, known as an assommoir. Windows would be bricked up, defended by stout iron bars and grilles […] In other instances a box machicolation or bretache overlooked the door. There are, rarely, remains of grooves for a raised drawbridge or portcullis and archival evidence of a barbican. […] Sixteen bretaches were placed to overlook every opening of the church, be it door, window or defence opening. The roof of both nave and chancel was stone-vaulted with meuretières at the rib crossings providing observation of the ...