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Extract from a letter complaining of a particular lady who gambles too much 1750

Extract from a letter complaining of a particular lady who gambles too much 1750

Image Reference: 42278
Image Date: 1750
Measurements: 7 x 7.1 cm
Medium: newspaper
Collection: Scrapbooks
Library Reference: Hunt Vol. 3, p.172
Credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Library: Bath Record Office : Archives & Local Studies

Description: Lamenting the education of a daughter encouraged to the gaming tables by her mother, who spends all day there. It applauds the Magistrates who have lately destroyed the Footmen's Gaming Table and committed nine of them and five of the Townsmen, with the Master of the House, to prison.
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