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Archive Item: BC MS NCC/20/374

Novello, Clara Anastasia to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

15 Mar 1875

Handwritten postcard from Clara Anastasia Novello to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, noting how many tickets she had purchased for a lace lottery.

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Archive Print Item: BC Yorkshire H-Rot-6.4/ATK

A correct guide to the frequenters of races, theatres, gaming-tables, feasts, &c

Atkinson, William (of Rotherham)

[1823]

By William Atkinson.

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Archive Print Item: Pamphlets BC Yorkshire H-Rot-6.4/ATK

A correct guide to the frequenters of races, theatres, gaming-tables, feasts, &c

Atkinson, William (of Rotherham)

[1823]

By William Atkinson.

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Archive Print Item: Pamphlets BC Yorkshire H-She-8/AUT

The examination of Nicholas the Chance-seller, of the cross-chequers, before Justice Conscience : on the charge preferred against him of keeping a gambling house, -in the 12th year of the reign of King William III

Author of The state lottery

1818

Anon.

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Archive Print Item: BC Lt/P

The revels; or A satyr against temple-ryots

E. P (fl. 1683)

1683

"To the benchers" signed: E.P. In verse. By E.P. Revels.

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Archive Print Item: BC Gen ROD

Thimble-men and nimble-men

Rodes, Cornelius Heathcote Reaston (1844); Holworthy, James (1781-1841); Edwards, Christopher (1956-)

[approximately 1830]

19 stanzas of four lines each. Conjugate blank leaf. A verse narrative of "Lord Milton's" assault on thimbleriggers [cheaters], with puns on "pair o' dice" [paradise], referencing John Milton, Paradi...

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Archive Print Item: Pamphlets Society of Friends/FRY

Betting newspapers and Quakerism : a letter addressed to members of the Society of Friends

Fry, Sir Edward (1827-1918)

[1911]

By Edward Fry (named at end).

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