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A history of English lotteries

Chapter 50: INDEX.
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The work traces the development and workings of lotteries in England from their early origins through institutionalization and reform, surveying both state and private schemes and the legal responses they produced. It uses reproduced handbills and facsimile lottery bills to illustrate publicity, administration, and popular reception, and recounts episodes of counterfeiting, fraud, prize insurance, and controversial practices. Individual chapters examine notable lotteries, parliamentary inquiries, poetic and satirical promotion, and the social and economic effects of widespread gambling. Archival research and illustrative material are combined with anecdotes to explain how lotteries operated and influenced public life.

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