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"Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His ""The Nature and Uses of Lotteries"" (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division. Gataker approved of these uses, but condemned divination and sorcery using random signs or spells. This important treatise is often referred to, but is generally inaccessible due to its rarity and old-style of language. The text of this edition has been fully modernised, with notes on important sources used by Gataker and includes a new introduction and index."

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9781845401177

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'A well-reasoned and curious book, teeming with quaint learning.' William Lecky (1865) 'Thomas Gataker's [Of the Nature and Use of Lots] was a significant contribution to seventeenth-century debates on lotteries and gambling. ... This readable, modern text will suit the casual amateur historian' Ben Saunders (University of Oxford), Political Studies Review, Volume 7, Number 2 (May 2009).

"""A well-reasoned and curious book, teeming with quaint learning."" -- William Lecky (1865) ""Thomas Gataker's [Of the Nature and Use of Lots] was a significant contribution to seventeenth-century debates on lotteries and gambling... This readable, modern text will suit the casual amateur historian."" -- Ben Saunders (University of Oxford) Political Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 2"

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Conall Boyle lectured in Statistics and Economics at the University of Central England, Birmingham, and now studies in the Economics Department of the University of Wales at Swansea.

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