THE HISTORY OF
GAMBLING IN
ENGLAND

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The HISTORY

of GAMBLING

in ENGLAND

BY

JOHN ASHTON

author of “Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne,”

“A History of English Lotteries,” etc.

LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
1898

CONTENTS

	PAGE
INTRODUCTORY
Difference between Gaming and Gambling—Universality and Antiquity ofGambling—Isis and Osiris—Games and Dice of the Egyptians—Chinaand India—The Jews—Among the Greeks and Romans—AmongMahometans—Early Dicing—Dicing in England in theThirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries—In the Seventeenth Century—CelebratedGamblers—Bourchier—Swiss Anecdote—Dicing inthe Eighteenth Century	1
CHAPTER I
Latimer and Cards—Discourse between a Preacher and a Professor—ThePerpetual Almanack, or Soldier’s Prayer Book—Origin of PlayingCards—Earliest Notice—Royal Card Playing	28
CHAPTER II
Legislation as to Cards—Boy and sheep—Names of old games at Cards—Gamblingtemp. Charles II.—Description of a gaming-house, 1669—Playat Christmas—The Groom Porter—Royal gambling discontinuedby George III.—Gambling in church	40
CHAPTER III
Gambling early Eighteenth Century—Mrs Centlivre—E. Ward—Steele—Pope—Detailsof a gaming-house—Grub Street Journal on Gambling—Legislationon gambling—Peeresses as gaming-house keepers—Achild played for at cards—Raids on gaming-houses—Fielding	51
CHAPTER IV
Gambling at Bath—Beau Nash—Anecdotes of him—A lady gambler—HoraceWalpole’s gossip about gambling—Awful story aboutRichard Parsons—Gambling anecdotes—C. J. Fox	64
CHAPTER V[vi]
The Gambling ladies—Ladies Archer, Buckinghamshire, Mrs Concannon,&c.—Private Faro Banks—Card-money—Gaming House end ofEighteenth Century—Anecdotes—The profits of Gaming Houses—C.J. Fox and Sir John Lade—Col. Hanger on gambling	76
CHAPTER VI
The Gambling Clubs—White’s, Cocoa Tree, Almack’s—A few gamblersdescrib ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!