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blanks to a prize -- A ticket sold twice over -- Extravagant prices paid for tickets -- Praying for success -- A lucky innkeeper -- Lottery for Cox's Museum -- Adam's Adelphi Lottery -- Blue-coat boys and the lottery -- Future arrangements for drawing.
In 1755 there was a State lottery (28 Geo. II. c. 15) for £1,000,000, tickets £10 each, the drawing of which commenced on October 6. At this lottery the crowd at the Bank, willing and eager to subscribe, was so great that the counters were broken by their eagerness to get at the books. In the next year, 1756, one was started for £500,000 (29 Geo. II. c. 7).