[2] In October 1518 Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey played mumchance with French diplomats at Westminster Palace after a banquet and a masque.
[3] In January 1527, Henry VIII came to the hall at Hampton Court, in a company disguised as French noblemen in costumes of satin and gold resembling shepherd's clothing, requesting a game of mumchance with the "excellent fair dames".
[4] According to George Cavendish, Wolsey's guests cast or threw dice to win gold crown coins.
Francis Beaumont of Bedworth wrote to Anne Newdigate, that he "having before more unadvisedlie than wiselie haszarded so worthy a Ladies favoure upon a mum chaunce, my diseased soule ... could finde no rest".
[7] A poem attributed to Lilias Murray, Lady Grant includes a complaint against Cupid and mentions a "mumchance".