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A75612
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The arraignment, trial, and condemnation of Squire Lottery, alias Royal-Oak Lottery
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1699
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Wing A3760A; ESTC R172510
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publick among our English Youth and indeed I have heard a great many sober men pass very sharp Censures upon the Wisdom of the Court for intrusting him with a Royal Authority Man What kind of Censures were they that they past do you remember any of them particularly Past Yes I remember several things that I am almost asham'd to mention I have heard 'em often reflecting what an intolerable Shame and Scandal it was that a whole Kingdom should be sacrific'd to the Interest of two or three Courtiers and three or four scurvy mercenary Patentees that so many thousand Families should be ruin'd and no notice taken of it that so many Wives should be seduc'd to rob and betray their Husbands so many Children and Servants their Parents and Masters and so many horrid Mischiefs transacted daily under the shadow of this pretended Royal-Oak Lottery and no manner of means us'd to suppress it 2d Man But Captain Did you never hear of any Person that got money of the Prisoner in the main Past Not one I defy him to produce one single person that 's a Gainer against a hundred thousand he has ruin'd I 'm confident I have a Catalogue by me of several thousands that have been utterly undone by him within the compass of my own Experience Man What does the Town in general say of him Past The Town here-a-late is grown so inveterate and incens'd against him that I am very well assur'd that if he had not been call'd to account in the very nick the Mob would have speedily taken him into their correction Man Well Sir you hear what the Witness has said against you will you ask him any Questions Lottery Only one and leave the rest till I come to make my general Defence Sir I desire to know whether you was not one that was turn'd out upon the last Renewal of the Patent Past No Sir I was not You might have remember'd that I told you I saw so much of your Falshood and Tricks and so many innocent People daily sacrific'd to support a Society of lewd debauch'd impertinent and withal imperious Cannibals that I thought it my best way to quit your Fraternity and pack off with that little I had got and leave you to manage your mathematical Balls c. by your self Man I suppose Sir you will ask him no more Questions and so we 'll call another Witness Lottery No Sir I have done with him Man Call Squire Frivolous the Counsellor Sir do you know Squire Lottery the Prisoner Frivolous I have been acquainted with him several years to my great Cost and Damage Man Pray will you inform the Court what you know of him Frivolous I know him to be a grand Deceiver a common Enemy to the Publick a Snare to our Youth a Scandal to the Kingdom a notorious Impostor a Wretch without parallel and beyond description Man You seem to be very angry with him Mr. Frivolous pray how long have you been acquainted with him and where did you contract your first Familiarity Frivolous The first time I had the misfortune to know him was at an Act at Oxford about twenty years ago where among abundance of other young Fools that he entic'd to sell their Books for Money to play with him c. I was one Man What I hope he was not so barbarous as to decoy the poor young Gentlemen out of their Books Frivolous Yes out of every thing they had and out of the College to boot For my own part I have reason to curse him I 'm sure He flatter'd me up with so many Shams and false Pretences and deluded me with so many chimerical Notions and cunning Assurances and urg'd me so long from one deceitful Project to another till at last he had trickt me out of all I had in the World and then turn'd me over to the scorn and laughter of my Friends and Acquaintance Manag But I hope Mr. Frivolous he has been kind to you since and us'd you like a Gentleman Frivolous He has us'd me as he does every body else when he has won their Money order'd his Janisaries to keep me out of his Office or if I did crowd in he treated me with so much contempt and scorn and so much haughtiness and indifference that I could not forbear wishing my self out again Man Have you ever been in his Company at London if you have pray tell us what Observations you made Frivolous I never observ'd any thing in his Conversation worth a Remark unless it was the perfidious Stratagems and Tricks he propos'd to draw in Bubbles and Fools and with what joy and satisfaction he was wont to express himself upon the entangling a credulous Woman or some ignorant young Coxcomb of much Money and little Wit Man What sort of Tricks and Stratagems are they that he commonly makes use of two draw in his Women and Coxcombs Frivolous Why he has commonly a Gang of mercenary Dependants both Men and Women that he treats and encourages to hunt the Town for Novices and Properties of both Sexes Lottery I desire he may produce some of the Names of these mercenary Dependants he speaks of for my part I disown every thing of that nature Man He 's upon his Oath Sir and therefore that must be left to the discretion of the Bench and Jury whether they 'l credit him or not but for naming of Names I 'm of opinion he is not oblig'd to do that 2d Man He is not bound by any means to name Names That will consequently betray him to several Inconveniences you have those belonging to you that in such a case would not stick to cut a Man's Throat besides Sir you ought not to interrupt the Evidence Man Can you give the Bench any particular Names of Persons he has ruin'd Frivolous I have a Collection of Names in my Pocket which I 'm sure he can't object against that have lost fourteen or fifteen thousand Pound per Annum within my own Knowledg and Acquaintance Man That 's a round Sum But pray Mr. Frivolous for the satisfaction of the Jury mention a few of their Names Frivolous I suppose Squire Lottery you must remember the Kentish Squire in the Blue Coat that you won the six hundred Pound per Annum of in less than five months You remember the Lord's Steward that lost an Estate of his own of three hundred Pound per Annum and run four thousand Pound in Arrears to his Lord beside You remember I suppose the West-India Widow that lost the Cargo of two Ships valued at fifteen hundred Pound in less than a month I know you can't forget the honest Lady at St. James's that sold all her Goods Plate and China for about seven hundred Pound and plaid it all away to you as near as I remember in three mornings I know you can't forget the three Merchants Daughters that play'd away their whole Fortunes viz. fifteen hundred Pound apiece in less than two months You remember