And a Description of China, val..

51.

41.

In all 9 Pound.

1 Lot, Num. 23. One royal Bible with Chorographical sculps, 54

val.

And Æsop complete, val...

61.

In all 11 Pound.

1 Lot, Num. 24.

val.

And Æsop the first volume, val.

1 Lot, Num. 25.

51. 31. In all 8 Pound.

570 Lot, Num. 35. Each the first volume of Æsop, val....... 3. 570 Lot, Num. 36.

Each the second volume of Æsop, val. .. 31.

The whole number of the lots three thousand, three hundred, and sixty-eight.

The number of the blanks as above ordered; so that the total received is but four thousand, one hundred, and ten pounds.

The office where their monies are to be paid in, and they receive their tickets, and where the several volumes or prizes may be daily seen, (by which visual speculation understanding their real worth better then by the ear or a printed paper,) is kept at the Black Boy, over against St. Dunstan's

being Whitson-eve, that the author may have time to put up the lots and inserp tions into their respective boxes.

D.II., one of Mr. Urban's contributors, mentions that he had seen an undated "Address to the Learned: or, an advan wherein each adventurer of a guinea s tageous lottery for Books in quires; sure of a prize of two pound value; and it is but four to one that he has a prize of three, six, eight, twelve, or fifty pounds, as appears by the following proposals:" one thousand five hundred lots, at 11 l2. each, to be drawn with the lots out of two glasses, superintended by John Lilly and Edward Darrel, esqrs., Mr.Deputy Collins, and Mr. William Proctor, stationer, two lots of 501., ten of 12., twenty of 81, sixty-eight of 61., two hundred of 31, one thousand two hundred of 31. The undertakers were: Thomas Leigh, and D. Midwinter, at the Rose and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-yard; Mr. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons, and Mr. Richard Parker, under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange; Mr. Nicholson, in Little Britain; Mr. Took, at the Middle Temple gate, Fleet-street; Mr. Brown, at the Black Swan, without Temple-bar; Mr. Sare, at Gray's-inn gate; Mr. Lownds, at the Savoy gate; Mr. Castle, near Scotland-yard gate; and Mr. Gillyflower, in Westminster-hall, booksellers.

Letters patent in behalf of the loyalists were from time to time renewed, and, from the Gazette of October 11, 1675, it appears by those dated June 19, and December 17, 1674, there were granted for thirteen years to come, "all lotteries whatsoever, invented or to be invented, to several truly loyal and indigent officers,

in consideration of their many faithful services and sufferings, with prohibition to all others to use or set up the said lotteries," unless deputations were obtained from those officers.

A PENNY LOTTERY.

The most po alar of all the schemes was that dran at the Dorset-garden theatre, neai Salisbury-square, Fleetstreet, with the capital prize of a thousand pound for a penny. The drawing began October 19, 1698; and, in the Protestant Mercury of the following day, "its fairness (was said) to give universal content to all that were concerned." In the next paper is found an inconsistent and frivolous story, as to the possessor of the prize : "Some time since, a boy near Branford, going to school one morning, met an old woman, who asked his charity; the boy replied, he had nothing to give her but a piece of bread and butter, which she accepted. Some time after, she met the boy again, and told him she had good luck after his bread and butter, and therefore would give him a penny, which, after some years' keeping, would produce many pounds: he accordingly kept it a great while; and at last, with some friend's advice, put it into the penny lottery, and we are informed that on Tuesday last the said lot came up with 1000l. prize." However absurd this relation appears, it must be recollected those to whom it was principally addressed had given proof of having sufficient credulity for such a tale, in believing that two hundred and forty thousand shares could be disposed of and appropriated to a single number, independent of other prizes. The scheme of the " Penny Lottery" was assailed in a tract, intituled The Wheel of Fortune, or Nothing for a Penny; being remarks on the drawing of the Penny Lottery at the Theatre Royal, in Dorset-Garden," 1698, 4to. Afterwards at this theatre there was a short exhibition of prize-fighters; and the building was totally deserted in 1703.

In 1698-9, schemes were started, called "The Lucky Adventure; or, Fortunate Chance, being 20001. for a groat, or 30001. for a shilling :" and "Fortunatus,

or another adventure of 1000l. for a penny:" but purchasers were more wary, and the money returned in both cases.The patentees also advertised against the "Marble-board, alias the Woollich-board lotteries; the Figure-board, alias the

Whimsey-board, and the Wyreboard .otteries."*

These patents of the Restoration seem to have occasioned considerable strife between the parties who worked under them. The following verses from "The Post Boy, January 3, 1698," afford some insight to their estimation among sensible people :

A DIALOGUE betwixt the NEw Lotts

RIES and the ROYAL OAK.

New Lott. To you, the mother of our
schools,

Where knaves by licence manage fools,
Finding fit juncture and occasion,
To pick the pockets of the nation;
We come to know how we must treat 'em,
And to their heart's content may cheat 'em.
Oak. It cheers my aged heart to see
So numerous a progeny;

I find by you, that 'tis heaven's will
That knavery should flourish still.
You have docility and wit,
And fools were never wanting yet.

Observe the crafty auctioneer,
His art to sell waste paper dear;
When he for salmon baits his hooks,

That cormorant of offai books,
Or carrion crows on horse-flesh feed;
Who bites, as sure as maggots breed,
Fair specious titles him deceive,
To sweep what Sl

and T

-n leave.
If greedy gulls you wou'd ensnare,
Make 'em proposals wondrous fair;
Tell him strange golden show'rs shall fall,
And promise mountains to 'em all.

New Lott. That craft we've already
taught,

And by that trick have millions caught;
Books, bawbles, toys, all sorts of stuff,
Have gone off this way well enough.
Nay, music, too, invades our art,
And to some tune wou'd play her part.
I'll show you now what we are doing,
For we have divers wheels agoing.
We now have found out richer lands
Than Asia's hills, or Afric's sands,
And to vast treasures raust give birth,
Deep hid in bowels of the earth;
In fertile Wales, and God knows where,
Rich mines of gold and silver are,
From whence we drain prodigious store
Of silver coin'd, tho' none in ore,
In hopes to make us vomit more.
Which down our throats rich coxcombs pour,

Oak. This project surely must be good,
Because not eas'ly understood:
Besides, it gives a mighty scope
To the fool's argument-vain hope.

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pay your penny, or deliver stand still a moment, for him to pit me at the first demand, and this them. He must therefore be t you shall transgress. No man, we are, to keep them as stades in t hall mow above eight swaths storehouse of his memory. lots, before they lay down their Here are a few of those studies, which d go to breakfast. No man, or he may practise upon till doomsday, and mow any farther than Monks will not then be able to produce he k, but leave their scythes there, effect from them that will are p dinner; according to the cus- neously on the imagination, at the men manner of this manor. God save mention of the simplest word which as The dinner, provided by the describe them:-The sunburnt pe The manor's tenant, consists of entering the field leisely at al secakes, three cakes, and a new ing, with their reapbooks ming se. The cakes and cheesecakes right shoulders, and their b size of a winnowing-sieve; and ing to their left hands, while type on who brings them is to have for a while to look abet llons of ale. The master of the they begin their work-The aid in hay, and is farther allowed they are scattered all his cows into the meadow on stooping to the grand y morning till eleven o'clock; that corn, others lifting up t means giving the more milk the and supporting them i may be made the bigger. Other while the rest are plying their hy stoms are observed in the mowing sickles, before which t meadows in this parish,"

est time is as delightful to look

3, who are mere spectators of was in the golden age, when the ts and the rejoicers were one herefore, as then, the fields are all

with figures and groups, that seem, eye of the artist, to be made for s-pictures that Can lt in; (which fault, by r their only beauty mer;) namely,