Francis Willughby (1635–1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist
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And if Francis Willughby gives no rules for the game, Holme and Cotton describe it as a three-stake game almost identical to a variation of Brag called Three-card brag, or Three-stake Brag.
Francis Willughby speculated that Trump was an earlier simple trick-taking game without the ruff and honours.
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He was born at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire, the second son of Francis Willughby, the famed mathematician and naturalist ( who preferred to be known by this aberrant spelling of the family name), and was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge.