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The relationship between courtly and commercial gaming in Augustan Westminster and elsewhere resulted in real and perceived administrative anomalies. Much of the uncertainty contributing to the nebulous status of gaming in the metropolis emanated from the peculiar status of gaming in the royal household. In Britain as on the continent, gaming was often inflected with courtly privilege, which could overlap or create friction with the institutions and initiatives of government at both the national and local level. The coexistence of licit gaming in the Groom Porter’s lodge in Whitehall Palace and illicit gaming only a few streets away reflected unsettled jurisdictions, contested spaces, and problematic boundaries between public and private.