_Common Bail Affidavit Men_, _Ruffians_, _Bravoes_, _Assassins_, cum multis aliis.” We have read before (p. 49) of the King’s gambling at the Groom Porter’s on 5 Jan. 1731, but, to show the fairness and equality of the law, I will give the very next paragraph: “At Night (5 Jan.) Mr _Sharpless_, High Constable of _Holborn_ Division, with several of his petty Constables, searched a notorious Gaming House behind _Gray’s Inn Walks_, by Vertue of a Warrant from the Right Hon. Lord _Delawar_, and eleven other of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of _Middlesex_; but the Gamesters, having previous Notice, they all fled, except the Master of the House, who was apprehended, and bound in a Recognizance of £200 penalty, pursuant to the old Statute of 33 Hen. VIII.” The _Grub Street Journal_ of 28 Dec. 1733, gives a practical hint how to utilise Gambling: “Dear _Bavy_.—As Gaming is becoming fashionable, and the Increase of the Poor a general Complaint, I propose to have a Poor’s Box fix’d up in some convenient Place in every House, which may contain all Money that shall be won at Cards, or any other Games; and that a proper Person be appointed in every Parish to keep the Key, and to collect Weekly from each House what has been dropt into the Box, in order to distribute it among the poor, every _Sunday_. A Friend of mine, being obliged to play pretty high in a Family, where he visited, had, generally, Luck on his Side. In some time, the Master of the Family became extreamly embarrass’d in the World. My Friend, being acquainted with it, and touch’d with so moving a Circumstance, went home, and, opening a Drawer where he had deposited the Winnings brought from his House, repaid him; thereby, he retrieved his Credit, and whereby the whole Family was saved from Ruin.—Yours &c., JEREMY HINT.”