A traditional English Christmas game whose rules are now lost to us. A passage from The Spectator of 1712 refers to it:
Mr Spectator
I desire to know in your Next, if the merry Game of the Parson has lost his Cloke, is not mightily in Vogue amongst the fine Ladies this Christmas; because I see they wear Hoods of all Colours, which I suppose is for that Purpose; if it is, and you think it proper, I will carry some of those Hoods with me to our Ladies in Yorkshire; because they injoined me to bring them something from London that was very new. If you can tell any Thing in which I can obey their Commands more agreeably, be pleas’d to inform me, and you will extreamly oblige,
Your humble Servant