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A scheme for raising 1,800,000 l. upon standing orders in the Exchequer, payable in course, out of a fund of 168,003 l. per annum, for thirty two years; ...
Date: 1712.]
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A good husband for five shillings, or, Esquire Bickerstaff's lottery for the London-Ladies. Wherein those that want Bed-Fellows, in an Honest Way, will have a Fair Chance to be Well-Fitted.
Date: MDCCX. [1710]
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An exact table or list of all the numbers of the tickets or receipts drawn in the first classis of the two million adventure August 1.1711. Before the managers and directors thereof: and the numerical order ... With the respective principal sums, præmiums and benefits arising against the same.
Date: 1711
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A letter from the grave, communicated in a vision By Mr. Holman's late servant. Addressed to servants of all denominations. Exposing the gross Impositions of illegal Lottery Chances, and laying open the iniquitous odds, tricks, artifices, and frauds of private Gambling Offices, which still carry on, in defiance of Law, the ruinous and abominable business of Lottery Insurance. With introductory observations, Addressed to all Families that keep Servants, particularly in the City of London. With also an Address to the Servants themselves, stating particulars relative to the Vision. By the editor of the above letter.
Date: M.DCC,XCII. [1792]
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A Bill for a charitable lottery. For the relief of distress'd virgins in Great Britain and Ireland.
Date: 1734
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Cato's letters; or, essays on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects. In four volumes.
Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.Date: MDCXXXIII. [1733]
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A scheme for a three million lottery.
Carter, Richard, active 17th century-18th century.Date: 1712]
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A true account of the payments made by Mr. John Blunt into the Exchequer, on his receipt of 993,000 l. of the class lottery, ...
Blunt, John, Sir, 1665-1733.Date: 1712
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A proposal for raising three millions.
Date: 1714?]
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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]
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A scheme of a second state-lottery.
Carter, Richard, active 17th century-18th century.Date: 1711?]
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A proposal to raise 400,000 l. without any new fund by a lottery.
Date: 1714]
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Communication of property. Or, a voluntary contribution for publick and charitable uses to be distributed by lot. Cleared to be, as it is here propos'd, the best way of improving a part of every one's stock, ... With three discourses ... Most humbly offer'd to Her Majesty, an both Houses of Parliament.
Date: 1708
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The Lord Viscount Barrington's case in relation to the Harburgh Company and the Harburgh lottery.
Barrington, John Shute Barrington, Viscount, 1678-1734.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXXII. [1722]
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A scheme for raising 1,500,000 1. upon talleys and orders payable in course out of a fund of 140,000 1. per ann. to be settled for thirty two years, ...
Blunt, John, Sir, 1665-1733.Date: 1711]
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Proposals for a lottery, and a fund to pay the same.
Date: 1711?]
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Irish state-lottery, 1799. Begins Drawing July 23. Scheme. No. of Prizes. Value of each. Total Value. 3 of -10,000 is -30,000 3 - 5,000 - 15,000 4 - 2,000 - 8,000 5 - 1,000 - 5,000 10 - 500 - 5,000 30 - 100 - 3,000 60 - 50 - 3,000 8,000 - 10 - 80,000 8,115 Prizes 149,000 First-Drawn Ticket - - 500 First-Drawn Ticket last Morning - 500 21,885 Blanks 30,000 Tickets -150,000 Part of the Capital Prizes will be determined as follows: First-Drawn Ticket 19th Day - - -2,000 First-Drawn Ticket 21st Day - - 5,000 First-Drawn Ticket 23d Day - - 10,000 Tickets and Shares Are selling in Variety at the Old State Lottery Offices of T. Bish, Stock Broker, No. 4, Cornhill, London; and at the house of James Thomson, Bookseller, Manchester. Country Correspondents, by remitting Bank Notes, Post-Office Orders, or Cash, may have Tickets and Shares sent them, and their Orders complied with, the same as if present. Tickets and Shares Registered, to send the earliest Intelligence of their Fate to any Part of the World. Letters, if Post-Paid, duly answered.
Bish, Thomas, 1779-Date: 1799]
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A guide to the lottery; or, the laws of chance laid down in a plain and intelligible manner, wherein is shewn the probabilities arising from any proposed circumstance of play; applied to the Solution of a Variety of curious Questions relating to Cards, Dice, Lotteries, &c. 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]
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The lottery pamphlet, or the wheel of fortune laid open to the public; or, thoughts on state lotteries: to which is added, the history of the public funds of England.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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A scheme for a lottery of halfe a million, one million, one million and a halfe, or three millions, by ten pound tickets, ...
Date: [1711?]
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A detail of lottery dreams. Containing something of morality, divinity, and philosophy. Shewing the nature, effect, and design, of lottery schemes. Very Instructive to younger Persons, and Recommended to all.
Date: [1739]
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The love-Lottery: or, A Woman the Prize. Being a pleasant new invention, where any maid or widdow that puts in ten shillings, shall be sure of a husband, and perhaps Five Hundred Pound to her Portion, there being above Twenty Prizes to One Blank; with the same Chance to Batchelors or Widdowers; to be Drawn on Midsummer-Day next. Also, an Office of Intelligence, to be kept at the same Place; where any Maid or Widdow, Batchelor or Widdower, may Enter their Names, Fortunes and Characters, and be advis'd of suitable Matches in a very little time, without any manner of Trouble. The like never before Publish'd.
Date: 1709
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An account shewing the numbers of the tickets entituled to benefits in the lottery for 1500,000 l. anno 1711. With the benefits to which the said tickets are entitled, ... Publish'd by the special order of the managers, and directors of the said lottery. C. Rhodes, secretary.
Date: 1712
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A scheme for a new lottery for the ladies; or, a husband and coach and six for forty shillings. To which is added, a poem in favour of the said lottery, to encourage Maids, Widows, Single Women, Bachelors, and Widowers, to put in. - Also a Scheme scor'd in Lines, with the several Prizes, where Ladies may direct themselves by pricking Blindfold, to try their Fortunes in the said lottery 'till the Time of drawing.
Date: [1730?]
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The Present value of each benefit in this year's royal lottery, according to the course of payment. By which any one at sight may know what each benefit is worth in ready money for any time, from 1 to 32 years. Together with a scheme of a new lottery for one million, where every twentieth successive ticket shall be certain of a prize, and those who take out twenty promiscuously, may have one or more. The highest prize 1000 pounds a year, the lowest 4 pounds a year, and the blanks 15 shillings a year. Humbly submitted to the approbation of W. Lownds, Esq;
Date: 1711

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A scheme for raising 1,800,000 l. upon standing orders in the Exchequer, payable in course, out of a fund of 168,003 l. per annum, for thirty two years; ...

A good husband for five shillings, or, Esquire Bickerstaff's lottery for the London-Ladies. Wherein those that want Bed-Fellows, in an Honest Way, will have a Fair Chance to be Well-Fitted.

An exact table or list of all the numbers of the tickets or receipts drawn in the first classis of the two million adventure August 1.1711. Before the managers and directors thereof: and the numerical order ... With the respective principal sums, præmiums and benefits arising against the same.

A Bill for a charitable lottery. For the relief of distress'd virgins in Great Britain and Ireland.

Cato's letters; or, essays on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects. In four volumes.

A scheme for a three million lottery.

A true account of the payments made by Mr. John Blunt into the Exchequer, on his receipt of 993,000 l. of the class lottery, ...

A proposal for raising three millions.

A scheme of a second state-lottery.

A proposal to raise 400,000 l. without any new fund by a lottery.

The Lord Viscount Barrington's case in relation to the Harburgh Company and the Harburgh lottery.

A scheme for raising 1,500,000 1. upon talleys and orders payable in course out of a fund of 140,000 1. per ann. to be settled for thirty two years, ...

Proposals for a lottery, and a fund to pay the same.

The lottery pamphlet, or the wheel of fortune laid open to the public; or, thoughts on state lotteries: to which is added, the history of the public funds of England.

A scheme for a lottery of halfe a million, one million, one million and a halfe, or three millions, by ten pound tickets, ...

A detail of lottery dreams. Containing something of morality, divinity, and philosophy. Shewing the nature, effect, and design, of lottery schemes. Very Instructive to younger Persons, and Recommended to all.

An account shewing the numbers of the tickets entituled to benefits in the lottery for 1500,000 l. anno 1711. With the benefits to which the said tickets are entitled, ... Publish'd by the special order of the managers, and directors of the said lottery. C. Rhodes, secretary.