: 'Of all which _Lawes_, the
_Highest_
in place, and the
_Highest_ in perdition is the _Cheating_ Law or the Art of winning
money by false dyce: Those that practise this studie call themselues
_Cheators_, / the dyce _Cheaters_, and the money which they purchase
[see note 3.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
Centlivre's _Wonder_, Act 2. Sc. 1. Jonson uses it
again in _Mercury vindicated_: 'and cheat upon your under-officers;'
and Marston in _What You Will_, _Wks._ 2. 387.
=5. 6. 64 Prouinciall o' the Cheaters!= _Provincial_ is a term
borrowed from the church. See Gloss. Of the _cheaters_ Dekker gives
an interesting account in the _Bel-man of London_, _Non-dram. Wks._
3. 116 f.
: 'Of all which _Lawes_, the
_Highest_
in place, and the
_Highest_ in perdition is the _Cheating_ Law or the Art of winning
money by false dyce: Those that practise this studie call themselues
_Cheators_, / the dyce _Cheaters_, and the money which they purchase
[see note 3.
4.31, 2.] _Cheates_ [see 1.7.4 and Gloss.]: borrowing the
tearme from our common Lawyers, with whome all such casuals as fall
to the Lord at the holding of his _Leetes_, as _Waifes_, _Strayes_, &
such like, are sayd to be _Escheated to the Lords vse_ and are called
_Cheates_.'
=5. 6. 64 Bawd-ledger.= Jonson speaks of a similar official in _Every
Man out_, _Wks._ 2. 132: 'He's a leiger at Horn's ordinary (cant name
for a bawdy-house) yonder.' See Gloss.
