[The precise date of the introduction of this game into Britain is
uncertain. What has been collected respecting it will be found in the
Hon. Daines Barrington's paper in _Archaeologia_, vol. ix. p. 28.; and
in Hyde's treatise, _Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii_. Oxoniae,
1694.]
_A Juniper Letter._--Fuller, in describing a letter written by Bishop
Grosthead to Pope Innocent IV., makes use of a curious epithet, of which I
should be glad to meet with another instance, if it be not simply a
"Fullerism":
"Bishop Grouthead offended thereat, wrote Pope Innocent IV. such a
_juniper letter_, taxing him with extortion and other vicious
practices."--_Church History_, book III., A.D. 1254.