Pope Julius (card game)

Pope Julius, or Pope July, is a gambling card game of the 16th century for four or more players.[1] Players included King Henry VIII.[2]

Very little is known about the game, and its existence is known to be attested only by three written sources, those being:

References

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  1. Farquhar, Helen (1916). "Royal Charities" (PDF). British numismatic journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society 12: 84.
  2. Warnicke, Retha M. (1991). The rise and fall of Anne Boleyn: family politics at the court of Henry VIII. Cambridge University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-521-40677-2.
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