A History of English Lotteries by John Ashton

lottery -- The Glasgow lotteries -- Advertising foreign lotteries -- "Art Union" Act -- Dethier's "Twelfth Cake Lottery" -- Tontines -- Raffling -- Pious lotteries -- Sweet-stuff lotteries for children -- Hamburg lotteries

The place where the tickets were manipulated by the managers was afterwards changed from Whitehall to Somerset House, and the accompanying illustration shows the manner of conveying the lottery wheels from Somerset House (or Place, as it was then called) to Cooper's Hall, in 1808. There were four sledges employed, two carrying the wheels containing the tickets, and the other two the cases for the wheels. They were escorted by a detachment of Life Guards, dismounted, who had to do police duty, there being no police, as we know them, in those days.