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Further Reading - Captain Hazard's Game

Some contemporary sources:

  • [Anon] The Nicker Nicked; or, the Cheats of Gaming Discovered (3rd edn, 1669)
  • [Anon.] Plain Dealing: in a Dialogue between Mr Johnson and Mr Wary his friend, a Stock-Jobber (1691)
  • [Anon.] Diluvium Lachrymarum. A Review of the Fortunate & Unfortunate Adventurers. A Satire in Burlesque Upon the Famous Lottery (1694)
  • [Anon.] The Mischievous and Dangerous Consequences of Further Establishing the Bank of England, Consider’d . . . More Particularly Address’d to the Country Gentlemen (1708)
  • [Anon.] The Compleat Gamester: Or, Instructions How to Play at all manner of usual, and most Gentile Games . . .To which is added, The Game at Basset, never before printed in English (1709)
  • [Anon.] Reasons for Passing the Bill, for the better Preserving Publick Credit, by reviving and continuing the Act . . . to restrain the Number and Ill Practices of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers (London, 1711)
  • [Anon.] Exchange-Alley: Or, The Stock-Jobber Turn’d Gentleman; with the Humours of our Modern Projectors. A Tragi-Comical Farce (London, 1720)
  • [Anon.] An Account of the Endeavours That have been used to Suppress Gaming-Houses(London, 1722)
  • [Anon.], The Whole Art and Mystery of Modern Gaming fully Expos’d and Detected (London, 1726)
  • [Anon.] New Tunbridge Wells near Islington: Rules proper to be observed in drinking these Waters (1740?)
  • [Anon.] A Guide to the Lord Mayor’s Show: Or the Gentleman and Lady’s Companion to that Magnificent Procession (1761)
  • Ames, Richard, Islington Wells; or, the Threepenny Academy. A Poem (1691)
  • Arbuthnot, John, Of the Laws of Chance, or, a Method of Calculation of the Hazards of Game Plainly Demonstrated (1692)
  • Broughton, John, Remarks Upon the Bank of England With Regard More Especially to our Trade and Government (London, 1705)
  • Centlivre, Susanna, The Gamester: A Comedy (1705)
  • Centlivre, Susanna, The Basset-Table. A Comedy (1706)
  • Centlivre, Susannah, A Bold Stroke for a Wife: A Comedy; As it is Acted at the Theatre in Little Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields (London: W. Mears, J. Browne, and F. Clay, 1718)
  • Child, Josiah, A New Discourse of Trade (1698)
  • Defoe, Daniel, An Essay upon Publick Credit (London, 1710)
  • Defoe, Daniel, The Anatomy of Exchange-Alley: Or, A System of Stock-Jobbing (London, 1719)
  • Drake, James, Islington: or, The Humours of New Tunbridge Wells (London, 1733)
  • Fielding, Henry, The Lottery. A Farce (1732)
  • Gould, Robert, The Corruption of the Times by Money: A Satyr (1693)
  • Huygens, Christiaan, Of the Laws of Chance, or, A Method of Calculation of the Hazards of Game, Plainly demonstrated, 4th Edn (1738)
  • Kyd, Stewart, A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes (1795)
  • Lucas, Theophilus, The Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the Most Famous Gamesters and Celebrated Sharpers (1714)
  • Moore, Edward, The Gamester: A Tragedy (1753)
  • Mortimer, Edward, Every Man his own Broker: or, A Guide to Exchange-Alley (1761)
  • Scarlett, John, The Stile of Exchanges Containing both their Law & Custom As practised now in the most considerable places of Exchange in Europe Unfolding divers Mysteries and Directing every Person howsoever concerned in a Bill of Exchange, to what he ought to do and observe, in any case, in order to his own security(1682)
  • Settle, Elkanah, The Triumphs of London For the Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Duncombe, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London . . . Performed on Friday the 29th of October, Anno 1708 (London, 1708)
  • Shadwell, Thomas, The Volunteers, or the Stock-Jobbers. A Comedy (1693)
  • Stepney, George, An Essay upon the Present Interest of England (1701)
  • Taverner, William, The Female Advocates: or, the Frantick Stock-Jobber. A Comedy (1713)
  • Ward, Ned, A Walk to Islington: With a Description of New Tunbridge-Wells and Sadler’s Musick-House (London, 1699)


A few modern sources:

  • Andrew, Donna T., Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven: Yale UP, 2013)
  • Brown, F.C., Elkanah Settle: His Life and Works (Chicago, 1910). Br. Coll. GEN
  • Carruthers, Bruce G., City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996)
  • Carswell, John, The South Sea Bubble(London: The Cresset Press, 1961)
  • Clapham, Sir John, The Bank of England. A History, 2 vols (Cambridge UP, 1970)
  • Clark, Geoffrey, Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775 (Manchester UP, 1999)
  • Cromwell, Thomas, Walks Through Islington; Comprising an Historical and Descriptive Account of that Extensive and Important District, both in its Ancient and Present State (London, 1835)
  • David, F.N., ‘Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. 1. Dicing and Gaming (A Note on the History of Probability)’ Biometrica, 42 (1955), 1-15.
  • Dickson, P. G. M., The Financial Revolution in England: A Study in the Development of Public Credit (London: Macmillan, 1967), 11.
  • Ewen, Cecil L’Estrange, Lotteries and Sweepstakes: An Historical, Legal, and Ethical Survey of their Introduction, Suppression and Re-Establishment in the British Isles (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1972)
  • Feaveryear, A.E., The Pound Sterling: A History of English Money (Oxford, 1931)
  • Finn, Margot, The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914 (Cambridge UP, 2003)
  • Gigerenzer, Gerd, et al., The Empire of Chance (Cambridge UP, 1989), 120.
  • Glaisyer, Natasha, The Culture of Commerce in England 1660-1720 (2006)
  • Gray, Stanley, and V.J. Wyckoff, ‘The International Tobacco Trade in the Seventeenth Century’, Southern Economic Journal, 7:1 (July 1940), 1-26
  • Hoppit, Julian, ‘Financial Crises in Eighteenth-Century England,’ The Economic History Review, 39 (1986)
  • Hoppit, Julian, Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700-1800 (Cambridge UP, 1987)
  • Kynaston, David, Till Time’s Last Stand: A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013 (London etc.: Bloomsbury, 2017
  • Law, Jonathan (ed.), A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 6th edn. (2018)
  • Michie, Ranald, The London Stock Exchange: A History(London, 1999)
  • Muldrew, Craig, The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England (1998)
  • Murphy, Anne L., ‘Lotteries in the 1690s: Investment or Gamble?’ Financial History Review 12:2 (2005), 241
  • Murphy, Anne L., The Origins of English Financial Markets: Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble (Cambridge UP, 2009)
  • Nicholson, Colin, Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 1994)
  • Richard, Jessica, The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (2011)
  • Sherman, Sandra, Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe (Cambridge, 1996)

Further Reading - Chocolate House Treason

For anyone interested in the social/political background to Chocolate House Treason, here is a selection of materials that have proved especially useful in writing the novel.


A few contemporary sources:


  • Addison, Joseph, The Campaign, a Poem, to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough(London, 1705)
  • Addison, Joseph, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation, Consider’d(London: Printed and Sold by John Morphew near Stationers Hall, 1708)
  • [Anon.], The Character of a Coffee-House. Wherein Is contained a Description of the Persons usually frequenting it, with their Discourse and Humors(London, 1665)
  • [Anon.], The Character of a Coffee-House, with the Symptomes of a Town-Wit(London, 1673)
  • [Anon.], The Compleat Constable. Directing All Constables, Headboroughs, Tithing-Men, Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Highways . . . in the Duty of their several Offices. Fourth Edition with Additions(London, 1710)
  • [Anon.], The Complete Art of Boxing, According to the Modern Method . . . To which is added The General History of Boxing(London, 1788)
  • [Anon.], The Female Wits: Or, The Triumvirate of Poets At Rehearsal. A Comedy . . . Written by Mr W.M.(London, 1704)
  • [Anon.], St. James’s Park: A Satyr(London, 1708) [? By Joseph Browne and William Oldisworth]
  • [Anon.], A Poem on the Queen’s Birthday(London: Printed and Sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1707)
  • [Anon.], ‘The Weekly Comedy: Or, The Humours of a Coffee-House’, in The Weekly Comedy, 2 (20 Aug. 1707)
  • Boyer, Abel, The History of the Reign of Queen Anne, Digested into Annals. Year the Seventh(London, 1709)
  • Brookes, R., The Natural History of Chocolate, 2nd edn (London, 1725)
  • Brown, Thomas, Amusements Serious and Comical, Calculated for the Meridian of London2nd edn (London, 1702)
  • Browne, Joseph, The Circus: Or, British Olympicks. A Satyr on the Ring in Hide-Park(London, 1709)
  • Chamberlayne, Edward and John, Angliæ Notitia: Or, The Present State of England, 22nd edn (London, 1707)
  • [Defoe, Daniel], Defoe’s Review. Reproduced from the Original Editions, with an Introduction and Bibliographical Notes by Arthur Wellesley Secord, 22 vols (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938)
  • Dennis, John, An Essay upon Publick Spirit; Being a Satyr in Prose upon the Manners and Luxury of the Times, the Chief Sources of our present Parties and Divisions  (London, 1711)
  • Dunton, John, The Night-Walker: or, Evening Rambles in Search after Lewd Women(London, 1697-8). 8 monthly parts
  • [Farquhar, George],The Adventures of Covent-Garden, In Imitation of Scarron’s City Romance(London, 1699)
  • [Hatton, Edward], A New View of London: or, an Ample Account of that City, 2 vols (London, 1708)
  • Kettlewell, John, The Measures of Christian Obedience, 5th ed. (London, 1709)
  • [Langley, Batty], An Accurate Description of Newgate. With the Rights, Privileges, Allowances, Fees, Dues, and Customs thereof (London, 1724)
  • Lightbody, James, Every Man his own Gauger . . . Together with The Compleat Coffee-Man(London, 1698)
  • Macky, John, A Journey Through England. In Familiar Letters From a Gentleman Here, To His Friend Abroad(London, 1714)
  • Manley, Delariviere, Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean(London: John Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709)
  • Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of, Private Correspondence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: Illustrative of the Court and Times of Queen Anne, 2 vols (London, 1838)
  • Miller, James, The Coffee-House: A Dramatick Piece, As it is Perform’d at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty’s Servants(London, 1737)
  • Misson, Henri, M. Misson’s Memoirs and Observations in his Travels over England(London, 1719)
  • [Tong, William], An Account of the Life and Death of Mr. Matthew Henry, Minister of the Gospel at Hackney(London, 1716)
  • [Ward, Edward], Adam and Eve Stript of their Furbelows: or, The Fashionable Virtues and Vices of Both Sexes expos’d to publick View(London, 1714)
  • [West, Richard], The True Character of a Church-Man, Shewing the False Pretences to that Name[London, 1702]


A selection of background sources:

  • Ashton, John, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne(London: Chatto & Windus, 1929)
  • Clery, E.J., ‘Women, Publicity and the Coffee-House Myth’, Women: A Cultural Review, 2:2 (1991), 168-77
  • Downie, J.A., Robert Harley and the Press: Propaganda and Public Opinion in the Age of Swift and Defoe(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
  • Ellis, Aytoun, The Penny Universities: A History of the Coffee-Houses(London: Secker & Warburg, 1956)
  • Ellis, Markman, The Coffee House: A Cultural History(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004)
  • Gregg, Edward, Queen Anne(London, Boston and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980)
  • Hamilton, Elizabeth, The Backstairs Dragon: A Life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford(London: Hamilton, 1969)
  • Holmes, G.S., and W.A. Speck, ‘The Fall of Harley in 1708 Reconsidered’, English Historical Review, 80, No. 317 (Oct. 1965), 673-98
  • Holmes, Geoffrey, British Politics in the Age of Anne(London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1967)
  • Horsley, L.S., ‘Rogues or Honest Gentlemen: The Public Characters of Queen Anne Journalists’, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 18 (1976), 198-228
  • Klein, Laurence E., ‘Coffeehouse Civility, 1660-1714: An Aspect of Post-Courtly Culture in England’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 59:1 (1996), 30-51
  • Larwood, Jacob, The Story of the London Parks(London: Chatto & Windus, 1881)
  • Lemmings, David, Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990)
  • Lillywhite, Bryant,London Coffee Houses(London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963)
  • McLynn, Frank, Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)
  • Malcolm, James Peller, Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London During the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols (London: Longman, 1810)
  • Matthews, William (ed.), The Diary of Dudley Ryder, 1715-1716(London: Methuen, 1939)
  • Quarrell, W.H., and Margaret Mare (transl. and eds.), London in 1710: From the Travels of Zacharias Conrad Von Uffenbach(London: Faber & Faber, 1934)
  • Sheppard, F.H.W., Survey of London: Volume XXXVI. The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden(London: The Athlone Press, 1970)
  • Snyder, Henry L., ‘The Reports of a Press Spy for Robert Harley: New Bibliographical Data for the Reign of Queen Anne’, The Library, Fifth Series, 23, no. 3 (Sept. 1968), 326-45
  • Snyder, Henry L., ‘The Circulation of Newspapers in the Reign of Queen Anne’, The Library, Fifth Series, 23, no. 3 (Sept. 1968), 206-35
  • Sommerville, C. John, The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Speaight, George, The History of the English Puppet Theatre, 2nd edn (London: Robert Hale, 1990)
  • Thomson, Mark, The Secretaries of State, 1681-1782(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932)
  • Thornbury, Walter, Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places. A New Edition, 6 vols (London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, 1897)
  • Werrett, Simon, Fireworks: PyrotechnicArts & Sciences in European History(Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010)

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Further Reading - The Devil's Cathedral

Some contemporary sources:

  • [Anon.] An Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners (20th edn,, 1704)
  • [Anon.] The Compleat Gamester: Or, Instructions how to Play all manner of usual, and most Gentile games(1709)
  • [Anon.] The Devil upon two Sticks: or, the Town Until’d . . . As it is Acted in Pinkeman’s Booth in May-Fair (London: J.R., 1708)
  • [Anon.] A Help to a National Reformation. An Abstraction of the Penal-Laws against Prophaneness and Vice. A Form of the Warrants issued out upon Offenders against the said Laws. A Blank Register of such Warrants . . . (1706 edn.)
  • [Anon.] Reasons for Suppressing the Yearly Fair in Brook-Field, Westminster; Commonly Call’d May-Fair (London, 1709)
  • Bedford, Arthur, Serious Reflections on the Scandalous Abuse and Effects of the Stage (Bristol, 1705)
  • Bedford, Arthur, The Evil and Danger of Stage-Plays: Shewing their Natural Tendency to Destroy Religion, and Introduce a General Corruption of Manners (Bristol, 1706)
  • Betterton, Thomas, The History of the English Stage, from the Restauration to the Present Time, Including the Lives, Characters and Amours, Of the most Eminent Actors and Actresses (1741)
  • Bray, Thomas, For God or For Satan: Sermon Preached . . . 24 March 1708/09, at the Funeral of Mr John Dent(1709)
  • Brown, Thomas, The Stage-Beaux toss’d in a Blanket: Or, Hypocrisie Alamode;Expos’d in a True Picture of Jerry . . [Collier] A Pretending Scourge to the English Stage. A Comedy. With a Prologue on Occasional Conformity . . . and an Epilogue on the Reformers. Spoken at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane (1704)
  • Defoe, Daniel, More Reformation. A Satyr upon Himself (1703)
  • Disney, John, An Essay upon the Execution of the Laws Against Immorality and Prophaneness (1708)
  • Feild, John, An Humble Application to the Queen . . . to suppress Play-Houses and Bear-Baitings, With All Prophaness and Immorality (1703)
  • Gould, Robert, The Play-house. A Satyr.
  • Swift, Jonathan, A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners (1709)
  • Woodward, Josiah, An Account of the Rise and Progress of Reformation of Manners (14th edn., 1704)
  • Woodward, Josiah. Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704)

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A few modern sources:


  • Barry, Jonathan, ‘Hell upon Earth, or the Language of the Playhouse’, in Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture, ed. Stuart Clark (Macmillan, 2001), pp. 139-158
  • Burtt, Shelley, ‘The Societies for the Reformation of Manners: between John Locke and the Devil in Augustan England,’ in Roger D. Lund, ed., The Margins of Orthodoxy: Heterodox Writing and Cultural Response, 1660-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 149-169
  • Curtis, T.C. and W.A. Speck, ‘The Societies for the Reformation of Manners: A Case Study in the Theory and Practice of Moral Reform’, Literature and History, 3 (1976), 45-64
  • Fone, B.R.S., ed., An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Written by Himself (University of Michigan Press, 1968)
  • Howell-Meri, Mark, ‘Acting Spaces and Carpenters’ Tools: from the Fortune to the Theatre Royal, Bristol’, New Theatre Quarterly, 25:2 (May 2009), 148-158
  • Hughes, Leo, The Drama’s Patrons: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience (University of Texas Press, 1971)
  • Hunt, Alan, Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
  • Jackson, Alfred, ‘London Playhouses, 1700-1705’, Review of English Studies, 8 (1932), 291-302
  • Krutch, Joseph Wood, Comedy and Conscience after the Restoration (Columbia University Press, 1949)
  • Lafler, Joanne, The Celebrated Mrs. Oldfield: The Life and Art of an Augustan Actress (Southern Illinois University Press, 1989)
  • Levy, Leonard W., Blasphemy: Verbal Offense against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie (University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
  • Milhous, Judith, Thomas Betterton and the Management of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1695-1708 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1979)
  • Muncey, R.W., Our Old English Fairs (London: Sheldon Press, 1936)
  • Nicoll, Allardyce, The Garrick Stage: Theatres and Audience in the Eighteenth Century (University of Georgia Press, 1980)
  • Rosenfeld, Sybil, Strolling Players and Drama in the Provinces 1660-1765 (Cambridge University Press, 1939)
  • Rosenfeld, Sybil, The Theatre of the London Fairs in the 18th Century (Cambridge University Press, 1960)
  • Sawyer, Paul, Christopher Rich of Drury Lane: The Biography of a Theatre Manager (University Press of America, 1986)
  • Shoemaker, Robert B. ‘Reforming the City: The Reformation of Manners Campaign in London, 1690-1738’, in Stilling the Grumbling Hive: The Response to Social and Economic Problems in England, 1689-1750, ed. Lee Davison, etc. (St Martin’s Press, 1992)
  • Styan, J.L., Restoration Comedy in Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
  • Walsh, Claire, ‘Social Meaning and Social Space in the Shopping Galleries of Early Modern London’, in A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing, eds. John Benson and Laura Ugolini (2003), pp. 52-79       
  • Winton, Calhoun, ‘The London Stage Embattled, 1695-1710’, Tennessee Studies in Literature, 19 (1974), 9-19

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