Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… in the second half of the eighteenth century: ‘London clubs [provided] the world of fashion with a central office for making wagers, and a registry for recording them.’ 4 Famous aristocratic gambling clubs started to keep betting books for … recorded in 1771. 5 Some members of minor eighteenth-century clubs met in taverns to indulge in betting and drinking. For example, the ‘Board of Brothers’, afterwards the ‘Board of Loyal Brotherhood’, was a Tory-Jacobite drinking club founded in 1709 by Henry Somerset, 2 nd Duke of Beaufort. 6 The first bets recorded date back to 1735, then …
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