INDEX.
Reading edition
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
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