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Lottery Notice and Book Promotion from 1731
From the Lottery Office in Pope's Head Alley Cornhill 1731 a subscription opens to sell 1200 receipts at 25s each for twenty tickets in the Fourth Lottery with promises of large prize returns. Also advertised is the second edition of Archibald Pitcairn's Works with medical treatises and the cure for smallpox, printed by John Pembercon at the Golden Buck Fleet Street for 45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Cox
Booxsetter
Royal Exchange
Great Bri
Pope’s Head Alley
Cornhill
Urrecurt
O. S
Hague
Ucredit
Serling
Stogdon
N.B
Bachclers
Goat Tavern
Charing Cross
Archibald Pitcairn
Pruc
March
Geornce Sewell
T. DesaGuLigns
L.L. UD
F. RS
John Pembercon
Golden Buck
Fleet-streec
Academy
Tower-street
James Stirztine
F-R-S
William Watts
Strawan
Symon
Lungs
St. Paul's
Joan Cony Beare
Exeter College
Oxford
Cicgron
Samuel Wilmot
Bankfeller
S. Nevill
Baily
Ludate
E. Nutt
R. Gosling
Fleetstreet
D. Browne
Temple Bar
J. Stagg
Westminster Hall
Georgee
Pouivicar
Epwankle Hartron
G. Strahan
Crafsman
John Trot
Seville
Great Britain
R. Francklin
Ruffel-street
Covent Garden
Pamenters
J. Pemberton
St. Dunstan’s
Fleet-street
Richard Rock
Tin&ure
Rich and Reck
N. B. Ac
Pitcara
Auchor
Radford
Rose and Crown
St. Clement’s Church
Strand