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A scheme designed to raise a sum not exceeding ten thousand pounds, for the benefit of the Foundling-Hospital; drawn up in three letters, by Way of Answer to One Elegant Letter, which was sent, it seems, not long ago to the King's Fool, by a Lady of the Highest Distinction, with a Present of Half a Dozen Tickets in the present State-Lottery inclosed in it.
Painter, John, 1715 or 1716-Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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No. 137, Fleet-Street, London, a douceur of one hundred state lottery tickets, which cost one thousand six hundred pounds, besides a saving of near fifty per cent in case of blanks. ... Margray and Co. submit the following liberal plan to the attention of the public: ...
Margray and Co.Date: 1789?]- Books
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A guide to the lottery, cards, dice, draughts, &c. &c. applied to The Solution of several curious Questions and Circumstances which occur in Play: laid down in the plainest Manner: and calculated to prevent the Practice of such Frauds as are frequently resorted to by professed Gamblers. Likewise The whole Business of insuring Tickets in the State Lottery clearly explained, the several Advantages taken by the Office-Keepers pointed out, and an easy Method given, whereby any Person may compute the Probability of his Success upon purchasing or insuring any particular Number of Tickets, with a Table of the Price of Insurance for every Day's drawing in the ensuing Lottery, another Table, containing the Number of Tickets a Person ought to purchase to make it an equal Chance to have any particular Prize; with several other curious Tables. To which is added a companion for the draught-player, containing Thirty select Games of Draughts, shewing the Manner of moving the Pieces to the best Advantage; together with several critical Situations to win Games, and fine Strokes, never before published: being the Result of the Practice and Observations of some of the first Players. By W. Painter.
Painter, W.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Proposal for a lottery of 1800000l. Divided into 72000 Tickets of Twenty Five Pounds each: In which there will be 5512 benefits, amounting to 961325 l. divided as in the following Table. Which Blanks, Benefit and Interest will be paid off in Thirty Years, with a Fund of 168000 l. per ann.
Date: [1711?]- Books
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An Act for granting to Her Majesty duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and thirteen; and for making forth duplicates of lottery tickets, lost, burnt, or destroyed; and for enlarging the time for adjusting claims in several lottery-Acts; and to punish the counterfeiting or forging of lottery orders; and for explaining a late Act in relation to stamp-duties on customary estates, which pass by deed and copy.
Great Britain.Date: 1713]- Books
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An Act for redeeming the fund appropriated for payment of the lottery tickets which were made forth for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ten, by a voluntary subscription of the proprietors into the capital stock of the South-Sea Company; and for raising a sum of money to pay off such debts and incumbrances as are therein mentioned; and for appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament; and to limit times for prosecutions upon bonds for exporting cards and dice.
Great Britain.Date: 1719]- Books
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A scheme for raising two millions of money, for the service of the year 1714. (payable with interest,) by way of lottery, upon the Credit of the Funds already settled for the Payment of the other Lotterys; whereby all other Lottery Tickets and Orders will be brought to ..., and paid off in less than 20 Years; and upwards of Ten Millions of Money sav'd to the Nation. By Samuel Jackson.
Jackson, Samuel, active 18th century.Date: 1714]- Books
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Scheme of a lottery for the year 1762, consisting of 60,000 tickets, and 28,431 prizes, and 150 premiums, divided into six classes, ... Most humbly submitted to the consideration of the Honorable House of Commons.
Date: 1762]- Books
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Remarks, upon the circumstances attending the drawing of the late Irish State lottery, being an enquiry what has been the alteration in the chance of the holders of tickets, produced by a number having been accidentally left out of the wheel.
Date: MDCCCLXXXIX. [i.e. 1789]- Books
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State of the capital prizes in the present lottery, yet undrawn. (13th day.) 2 Prizes of -30 000 3 ditto of 20,000 2 ditto of 10,000 2 ditto of 5,000 2 ditto of 2,000 8 ditto of 1,000 tickets and shares are Selling every Morning and Evening, Warranted Undrawn at the time they are purchased at the Office of Swift & Co. No. 11. Poultry, Established Forty Years. Money for Prizes on Demand.
Swift & Co. (Lottery promoters : London, England)Date: [1800]- Books
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State of the capital prizes in the present lottery, yet undrawn. (15th day.) 2 Prizes of -30 000 3 ditto of 20 000 2 ditto of 10 000 2 ditto of 5 000 1 ditto of 2,000 7 ditto of 1 000 tickets and shares are Selling every Morning and Evening, Warranted Undrawn at the time they are purchased at the Office of Swift & Co. No. 11. Poultry, Established Forty Years. Money for Prizes on Demand.
Swift & Co. (Lottery promoters : London, England)Date: [1800]- Books
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An Act for the further application of the sinking fund, by paying off one million of South Sea stock; and for appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament; and for making forth duplicates of Exchequer bills, lottery tickets, and orders lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed.
Great Britain.Date: 1732]- Books
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An Act for continuing the duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighteen; and for making forth duplicates of Exchequer bills, lottery tickets, and orders, lost, burnt, or destroyed; and for appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1718]- Ephemera
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[1882 ten Gulden lottery ticket in aid of the Austrian Red Cross. Shoes horse-drawn ambulances and nurses in a ward of sick / wounded].
Date: 1882- Books
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A scheme of the state-lottery, 1755.
Corbett's Correct Lottery Office.Date: 1755]- Books
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Reasons for raising the 1400,000l. by a lottery of 40s. a ticket; and not by a 10l. ticket lottery. ... Humbly submitted to the consideration of the Parliament of Great Britain, by Richard Carter.
Carter, Richard, active 17th century-18th century.Date: 1714?]- Books
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An appendix to Hayes's interest book. Shewing, by addition, how to cast up bank, India, South-Sea stock, Annuities, Royal and London Assurances, African, Million-Bank, York-Buildings, Charitable Corporation, English and Welsh Copper, Lottery Tickets, Blanks and Prizes, Premiums, Brokerage, Commissions, Discounts, Navy and Victualling Bills, &c. To which is added a table of great use to the proprietors of stocks, Annuities, and Bonds. Another of the like Service to the Buyers and Sellers of Annuities upon Lives. Also another for Annual Fonds. And, lastly, An Interest Table for India, South-Sea, York-Buildings, &c. L. 100 Bonds being done at Sight, at 3, 3 ?, and 4 per Cent. The whole being carefully calculated and examined from the press, by the author of Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing, &c.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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State lottery, Beings Drawing the 22d of February, 1796, The tickets of which are Sold and Divided into Halves, Quarters, Eighths, and Sixteenths, by J. Wenham, Stock-Broker, At his old Office, No. 11, Poultry, (of which he has been Proprietor these 35 Years, and has no Connection whatever with any other in London) Where, (exclusive of the inferior Prizes of -3000, -2000, -1000, and -500.) have been sold the following Capitals.
Wenham, John.Date: 1796]- Books
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The broker's breviat, whereby to cast up stocks, bonds, annuities, any number of shares, and lottery-tickets, premiums, brokerage, commission, discourts, &c. with dispatch. Also annuity upon any fin[ale] life is valued, &c. the profits made by money laid out on any of the ... securite are there shew[n]at sight. To which are added, ... curious tables, shewing the interest due ... bonds for any number of months and days ... R. Hayes, author of interest at one views.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The broker's breviat, whereby to cast up stocks, bonds, annuities, any number of shares, and lottery-tickets, Premiums, Brokerage, Commissions, Discounts, &c. with Dispatch. Also An Annuity upon any single Life is valued, &c. The Profits made by Money laid out on any of the above Securities are there shewn at Sight. To which are added, Some curious Tables, shewing the Interest due upon Bonds for any Number of Months and Days, at 3, 3 1/2, and 4 per Cent. By R. Hayes, Author of Interest at One View.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Every man his own broker: or, a guide to Exchange-Alley. In which the nature of the several funds, vulgarly called the stocks, is clearly explained; and The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing laid before the Public in a New and Impartial Light. Also The Method of Transferring Stock, of Buying and Selling India Bonds, Lottery Tickets, Life Annuities, and other Government Securities, without the Assistance of a Broker, is made intelligible to the meanest Capacity. To which is added, New Tables of Interest, calculated at 5 per Cent. for the Use of the present Proprietors of India Bonds; and Directions how to avoid the Losses that are frequently sustained by the Destruction of Bank Notes, India Bonds, &c. by Fires and other Accidents. By Philanthropos.
Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810.Date: M.DCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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An adventure of 300 pound sterling, at 10 shillings per ticket.
Date: 1740?]- Books
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An Act for redeeming certain annuities after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum; and for payment of the principal and interest on the standing orders for the blank tickets in the lottery granted for the service of the year, one thousand seven hundred and fourteen; and for making good the loss, which happened in the treasure of His Majesty's Exchequer, by the reduction of guineas; and for granting relief to Catherine Collingwood widow.
Great Britain.Date: 1723 [i.e. 1724]]- Ephemera
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Notificazione / Luigi Pandolfi, Patrizio di Pisaro, Fano ed Ascoli, Referendario dell'una, e dell'altra Segnatura, Delegato Apostolico della provincia d'Urbino, e Pesaro.
Pandolfi, LuigiDate: Luigi Pandolfi :- Books
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Museum lottery. The act for enabling Mr. Cox to dispose of his museum by way of lottery, sets forth, ...
Date: 1773?]