The perpetual almanack!!! or, Gentleman soldier's prayer-book : Showing how one Richard Middleton was taken before the mayor of the city he was in, for using cards in church during divine service: being a droll, merry, humorous account of an odd affair that happened to a private soldier in the 60th regiment of foot.
[England? : s.n.,
1880-1900?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
In two columns.
First line reads: The serjeant commanded his party to the church, and when the parson had ended his prayer, he took his text; and all of them that had a Bible pulled it out to find the text, but this soldier had neither Bible, almanack, nor common prayer-book, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a pack of cards, and spread them before him as he sat, and while the parson was preaching he first kept looking at one card and then at another.