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The fact is, the name Edmund or Edmond is common in both the Yorkshire and Irish families of Hoyle; and probably one Hoyle has been mistaken for another. Shortly after this, the celebrated EDMOND HOYLE, the father of the game, published his "Short Treatise: (1742-3). About Hoyle’s antecedents, but little is known. Hoyle became famous as soon as he avowed the authorship of the "Short Treatise." It was originally published anonymously. The principal characters are Professor Whiston 56 (Hoyle) who gives lessons in the game of Whist; Sir Calculation Puzzle, a passionate admirer of Whist, who imagines himself a good player, yet always loses; Sharpers, Pupils of the Professor, and Cocao, Master of the Chocolate-house. After the swabbers were dropped (and it is probable that they were not in general use in the eighteenth century), our national card game became known simply as Whist, though still occasionally spelt whisk. It appears that a clergyman was recommended to the Archbishop for preferment, when His Grace said, "he had heard that the clergyman used to play at Whist and swobbers; that as to 51 playing now and then a sober game at Whist, it might be pardoned; but he could not digest those wicked swobbers." Johnson defines swobbers as ‘four privileged cards used incidentally in betting at Whist." It has been conjectured by later writers that swabbers were identical with the honors; but this is an error.

Fielding, in his "History of the life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild, the Great," records that when the ingenious Count La Ruse was domiciled with Mr. Geoffrey Snap, in 1682, or, in other words, was in a spunging-house, the Count beguiled the tedium of his in-door existence by playing at Whisk-and-Swabbers, "the game then in chief vogue." Swift also, in his "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen" (1728), ridicules Archbishop Tenison for not understanding the meaning of swabbers. Even Mr. Pickwick is depicted playing Whist there with Miss Bolo, Mr. Bantam, M. C., and the Dowager Lady Snuffanuff, in a passage too well known to require quotation, though Mr. Pickwick’s visit was at a date when the chief glories of Bath had departed. "The Nobles," says a French writer, ‘had gone to England to learn to Think, and they brought back the thinking game with them." Talleyrand was a Whist player, and his mot to the youngster who boasted his ignorance of the game is well known, "Vous ne savez pas donc le Whiste, jeune homme? At all events, the author, by personal inquiry, has positively ascertained that he did not belong to the family of Yorkshire Hoyles, who acquired estates near Halifax temp Edward III.

SHUF. Damn him, I say, - Could he find no other Employment for forty Years together, than to study how to circumvent younger Brothers, and such as us, who live by our Wits? I find I knew nothing of the Game before; tho’ I can assure you, I have been reckoned a First-rate Player in the City a good while - nay, for that Matter, I make no Bad Figure at the Crown - and don’t despair, by your Assistance, but to make one at White’s soon. The following passage from the same pamphlet mentions the Crown - probably the Crown Coffee-house - and it has been inferred from this that Hoyle himself might have been one of Lord Folkestone’s party. A party of gentlemen (according to Daines Barrington), of whom the first Lord Folkestone was one, used at this date to frequent the Crown Coffeehouse, in Bedford Row, where they studied Whist scientifically. Let me see - it was about 222 and 3 Halves to - ’gad, I forgot how many - that my Partner had the Ace and King - let me recollect - ay - that he had one only was about 31 to 26. That he had not both of these 17 to 2, - and that he had not one, or both, or neither, some 25 to 32. So I, according to the Judgment of the Game, led a Club, my Partner takes it with the King.

Mr. R. B. Wormald writes thus respecting them in 1873: - Being driven by stress of weather to take shelter in a sequestered hostelry on the Berkshire bank of the Thames, he found four persons immersed in the fame of Whist: "In the middle of the hand, one of the players with a grin that almost amounted to a chuckle, and a vast display of moistened thumb, spread out upon the table the ace of trumps; whereupon the other three deliberately laid down their hands, and forthwith severally handed over the sum of one penny to the fortunate holder of the card in question. The new game was found to be so lively, and money changed hands with such increased rapidity, that these gentlemen and their friends, all of them members of the leading Clubs of the day, What is a billiards club continued to play it. Every subsequent edition of Seymour (with which Cotton was incorporated) makes the game ten up. Early in the century the points of the game rose from nine to ten ("nine in all." Cotton, 1709; "ten in all," Cotton, 1721; "nine in all," Cotton, 1725; "ten in all," Seymour, 1734, "rectified according to the present standard of play").