Further Reading - Captain Hazard's Game

• [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)

• [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