INDEX.
- A
- Aarones, Joseph, 86
- Abolition of Irish lotteries, 130
- Adam’s Adelphi Lottery, 80
- Adelphi Lottery, 80
- Alterations in drawing tickets, 130
- “Altogether” 191
- Anecdote by Theodore Hook, 311
- Anecdotes of luck, 204, 205, 213, 214
- Anecdotes of the lottery, 327
- Annual Register, 87
- Apophoreta gifts, 3
- Armour lottery, 24
- Armouth and the lottery of 1568, 23
- Art Union Act, 331
- Attempts to put down lotteries, 217, 221
- B
- Baddeley, Richard, 34, 42
- Baker, Robert, and lottery gambling, 159
- Baker’s evidence before the Commission, 301
- Ballad of 1826, 274
- Banks, Miss Sophia, 85
- Bank of England, fraud on the, 97
- Bartholomew, Christopher, and insurance, 306
- Bennet, Secretary, 35
- Bennett, Captain Edward, 34
- Bish, T., 127, 145
- —— on the last lottery, 283
- Bish’s enigmatical handbill, 169
- —— lottery alphabet, 162
- —— poetic effusions, 152, 180, 182, 191, 214, 218, 222, 261
- —— “Public Prizes,” 174
- Blue-coat boys and the lottery, 79, 82
- Book lottery, 44
- Bowyer’s lottery, 139
- Boydell lottery, 133
- —— Shakespeare winner, 138
- Branscomb, James, 127
- Branscomb’s agencies, 129
- Brighthemston and the lottery of 1568, 23
- British Museum, formation of, 69
- Business of the offices of the lottery, 321
- C
- Cale, Nathaniel, 35
- “Caleb Quotem,” 236
- “Captain Bobadil,” 237
- Chances of winning, 67
- Child, Francis, 45
- City Lottery, 149
- Clarke, John, 108
- Corbett, Francis, 32, 33, 39
- Counterfeiting lottery tickets, 86, 87
- “Cowslip,” 231
- Cox’s Museum lottery, 75
- Crosland, Sir John, 34
- Curious handbills, 218, 219
- —— lotteries, 88
- D
- D’Aguilar, Baron, 131
- Daily News, extract from, on lottery superstition, 213
- De Duras, Marquis, 42
- Death of the State lottery, 276
- “Dennis Brulgruddery,” 198
- Denny, Daniel, 87
- Des Marces, Sir Anthony, 33, 34, 42
- Dethier’s “Twelfth Cake Lottery,” 331
- “Dialogue,” a, 245
- Disposal of “Missing Word Competition” money, 350
- Drawing of the lottery, description of, 312, 319
- Drebbel, Cornelius, 29
- Dupuy, Lawrence, 33, 34, 42
- E
- Earliest lottery ticket, 85
- East Greenwiche and the lottery of 1568, 23
- End of the lottery, 258
- England, first lottery in, 5
- ——, number of lotteries in, 42
- English slave-ransom lottery, 32
- “Enigma,” an, 187
- Epitaph suggested for Vansittart, 221
- —— on the last lottery, 285
- Evil of lotteries, 40
- Extravagant prices for tickets, 74
- Eyck’s lottery, 4
- F
- “Farmer Acres,” 226
- Fielding’s song of the lottery, 1
- Finochelli, Francisco, 33
- First lottery in England, 5
- Fishing vessels lottery, 31
- Footman’s plan to spend expected prize, 311
- Foreign lotteries, 331
- “Fortune’s Ladder,” 165
- “Fortune’s Train,” 218
- G
- Gage, George, 30
- Gambling lottery, 33
- Gentleman’s Magazine, 61, 66, 72, 103, 109
- “Gently over the Stones,” 188
- Glasgow lotteries, 330
- “Gretna Green,” 214
- Guinea lottery, 71
- Gurney, Rev. W., and lottery gambling, 157
- H
- Hale, Pagen, 73
- Hambleton, Colonel, 30
- Handbills, 162, 180, 189
- Harefield lottery, 25
- Hastings and the lottery of 1568, 24
- Hazard’s poetical handbills, 175
- Historic lottery, 139
- Holland’s wager, 67
- Holophusikon, 104
- Hone’s account of the last lottery, 267
- Hook, Theodore, 311
- Hornsby and Co., 119
- I
- Illegal insurance checked, 125, 130, 131
- Insurance of lottery numbers, 296, 306
- Insuring lottery tickets, 120
- Irish Land Lottery, 31
- —— lotteries abolished, 130
- —— religious lotteries, 335
- Islington miser, the, 131
- J
- “Jerry Sneak,” 262
- “Jolly Dick,” 234
- K
- Killigrew, Thomas, 41
- Knight, Sir John, 35, 36
- L
- “Lady Betty Modish,” 230
- “Lady Mary Mousetrap,” 235
- Last lottery, 265
- —— ——, epitaph on, 285
- “Last of the lotteries,” 280
- Launston and the lottery of 1568, 23
- Leheup’s fraud, 70
- Lever, Sir Ashton, 103
- Lever’s lottery, 106
- “Little Goes,” 287
- L’Ocha di Catalonia, 33
- London Magazine, 66
- London water supply lotteries, 29, 30
- “London and the Lottery,” 182
- Loseley House, lottery record in, 5
- Loss to the public by lotteries, 301
- Lots, early history of, 2
- Lottery alphabet, 162
- —— anecdotes, 327
- —— drawing, description of, 319,
- —— frauds, 79, 81
- —— gambling, Parliamentary inquiry, 156
- Lottery handbills—
- A Prize for Poor Jack, by Jack Junk, 214
- A Valentine, 173
- Altogether, 191
- An Enigma, 187
- Bill of lottery in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, 5
- Caleb Quotem, 236
- Captain Bobadil, 237
- Cook-maid, 279
- Cowslip, 231
- Cox’s Lottery, 77
- Dennis Brulgruddery, 198
- Farmer Acres, 226
- Freeholds and Fortunes, 152
- Fortune’s Ladder, 165
- Fortune’s Train, 218
- Gardener, 280
- Gently over the Stones, 188
- Green-grocer, 280
- Gretna Green, 215
- Jerry Sneak, 262
- Jolly Dick, 234
- Kitchen-maid, 279
- Lady Betty Modish, 230
- Lady Mary Mousetrap, 235
- London and the Lottery, 182
- Master and Man, 189
- Miss Vixen Vinegar, 233
- Mrs. Pry, 263
- Mother Goose, 228
- Queen Dollalolla, 232
- Public prizes, 174
- Sam Swig, 229
- Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages,” 200
- Sir Gaby Guttle, 227
- Sir Simon Slenderwit, 264
- Sir William Courteous, 261
- Sweethearts and Gold, 176
- The Doubt, 177
- The Lottery Alphabet, 162
- The Persian Ambassador, 184
- The Philosopher’s Stone, 163
- The Race of Fortune, 247
- The Tradesman, 154
- The Wish, 248
- Three Royal Weddings, 222
- Twenty Thousand, 180
- Ways and Means, 219
- Lottery numbers, insurance of, 296
- —— office agencies, 129
- —— —— keepers, 293
- —— —— —— licensed, 90
- —— —— ——, prosecution of, 114
- —— record in Loseley House, 5
- —— superstition, 213
- —— ticket, the earliest, 85
- —— —— advertisement in Post-Boy, 210
- —— tickets, 238
- —— ——, counterfeiting, 86, 87
- —— ——, insurance of, 120
- ——, the last, 265
- —— wheels, description of, 312, 318
- Lotteries, attempts to put down, 217, 221
- Lotteries, curious, 88
- ——, derivation of, 3, 4
- —— disconnected from loans, 91
- ——, discontinuance of, 258
- ——, earliest records of, 4
- —— introduced into England, 5
- ——, loss by, 301
- ——, method of starting, 147
- ——, Parliamentary inquiry into, 156
- ——, suppression of, 50, 107
- ——, suspension of, 29
- ——, unauthorized, 108
- Louth and the lottery of 1568, 23
- Lucky lottery tickets, 205
- Lyttleton’s resolutions in the House of Commons, 224
- M
- Maimed soldiers’ lottery, 32
- Mainwaring, Everard, 29
- Marcelli, Simon, 33
- Margray, Mr., 112
- Marriage portions by lottery, 56
- “Master and Man,” 189
- Military officers’ lottery, 45
- “Miss Vixen Vinegar,” 233
- Missing Word Competition, 339
- Mitford’s (Miss) lottery ticket, 205
- Morocco men, 298, 302
- “Mother Goose,” 228
- “Mrs. Pry,” 263
- N
- Noah, Samuel, 86
- Norwich and lotteries, 40
- O
- Ogilby’s book lottery, 44
- P
- Parker, Michael, 29
- Parkinson, James, 107
- Parliamentary inquiry into lotteries, 156
- Pearson’s Weekly competitions, 339
- Penalties on private lotteries, 59
- Penny lottery, 48
- “Percy Anecdotes,” 212
- “Persian Ambassador,” 184
- Peyto, Sir Edward, 30
- “Philosopher’s Stone,” 163
- Physician’s Fortune, 327
- Pick-Me-Up and Missing Word Competition, 346
- Pickett, Alderman, 154
- Pigot Diamond Lottery, 128
- Pleydell, Captain William, 32
- Pointz, Sir Robert, 30
- Posies, 17, 19
- Posie by Alice Crewe, London, 18
- —— Dorothie Hawes, Cheapside, 19
- —— Nicholas Martin, Exon, 18
- —— Sibbel Cleyon, 19
- —— Sir George Speake, Whitlackington, 19
- —— Sir Thom. Woodhouse, Warham, 19
- —— Thomas Chamberlayne, Horsted Teynes, 19
- —— William Dorghtie de Westholme, 19
- Post-Boy, advertisement in, for lottery ticket, 210
- Pounteney, Mrs., 93, 101, 102
- Praying for success in lotteries, 74
- Price (or “Patch”), Charles, 91
- Pricking Book Lottery, 41
- Prince Rupert’s jewels lottery, 45
- Prisoner’s complaint, 114
- Prize, sharp practice over, 110
- Prize-winners, 118
- Prosecution of lottery-office keepers, 114
- —— for insuring lottery tickets, 304, 305
- “Public Prizes,” 174
- Q
- “Queen Dollalolla,” 232
- R
- Radcliffe and the Lottery of 1568, 23
- Raffling, 334
- Raine’s Charity, 55
- Regulations for lottery drawing, 83
- Religious lotteries, 335
- Richardson, Goodluck, and Co., 118
- Roche, Captain James, 33, 34
- Roman lottery, 3
- Royal Fishing Company, 41
- —— Oak Lottery, 33
- Rudge, Edward, 30
- S
- Sale of ticket twice over, 73
- Salvation Army man and “Word Competition,” 351
- “Sam Swig,” 229
- Saunder, Henry, 29
- ——, Sir Nicholas, 29
- Servants and the lottery, 298
- Shakespeare lottery, 135
- Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages,” 200
- Sharpliffe and the Virginian lottery, 29
- Shergold and Co., 110, 112
- “Sir Gaby Guttle,” 227
- “Sir Simon Slenderwit,” 264
- “Sir William Courteous,” 261
- Southfleete and the Lottery of 1568, 23
- Spaniard’s luck, 204
- Spectator on lucky numbers, 208
- State lotteries, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 59, 60, 66, 71,
- 72, 75, 89, 107, 110, 118, 120,
- 126, 145, 189, 197, 204, 238
- ——, method of, 89
- Story of a footman, 310
- Suicides caused by the lottery, 89, 109, 310
- Suppression of lotteries, 50, 54, 60, 107
- Suspension of lotteries, 29
- “Sweethearts and Gold,” 176
- Sweet-stuff lotteries, 336
- Sydenham lottery, 52
- T
- Tassie, the winner of the Boydell Shakespeare, 138
- Ticket sold twice over, 73
- Times on “Little Goes,” 287
- “The Doubt,” 177
- “The Race of Fortune,” 247
- “The Wish,” 248
- Theft of tickets, 75
- Thornton’s Royal Botanical Lottery, 193
- “Three Royal Weddings,” 222
- Tomkins’s picture lottery, 252
- Tontine lottery, 334
- Topsham and the lottery of 1568, 23
- Twelfth Cake Lottery, 331
- “Twelfth Night Characters” handbills, 225
- “Twenty Thousand,” 180
- “Two Gold Finches,” 197
- Tuer (Andrew) and the Missing Word Competition, 344
- U
- Unauthorized lotteries, 108
- V
- Valentine, a, 173
- Vansittart’s suggested epitaph, 221
- Virginia lottery, 28
- W
- “Ways and Means,” 219
- Wells and the lottery of 1568, 22
- “Wheel of Fortune,” 335
- —— handbill, 48
- Westminster Bridge lottery, 65
- Williamson, Joseph, 35, 42
- Winchester and the lottery of 1568, 22
- Winners of prizes, 118
- Y
- Yermouth and the lottery of 1568, 22