Account of the Lottery in Leicester by Rogert Hawfeilde (June 12, 1618)

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 68, no. 2 (1960), Page 163

A meetinge of Mr Rowland Pusey Maior, Mr Wm Morton, Mr James Andrewe, Mr John Freake, Mr Willm Ive, Mr Thomas Ericke, Mr John Wylne, Mr John Heyricke, Mr Nicholas Gillott, Mr John Pare, Mr Willm Ludlam, Mr John Hynde, Mr James Ellice, and Mr John Nurce, to take viewe of the prices and Blanckes and nombers of them beinge appoynted

for the lotterye which is come from the Counsell of Virginia to the Borough of Leicester called the runynge Lotterye to bee adventured within the Borough aforesaid and Countye of Leices[ter] and free for all comers to adventure there monye (poor people onlie excepted) att there pleasures from this present Frydaie the xij^th daye of June Anno Regnorum Jacobi nunc Anglie etc. Decimosexto / Et Scotie quinquagesimo primo/ 1618.

Apud Burgu[m] Leicestr[ensem]

Blanckes are ………………………………………………………………………..40000/

Which att xij.^d apeece Amount to………………………………………………2000^li/0^s/0^d/

The Prices are vicz

700/ Eache of ……………………………….….v^s……………………………./175/ 0/ 0/

300/ Eache of …………………………………..x^s…………………..………../150/ 0/ 0/

300/ Spoones worth …………………………………………………………../128/ 11/ 0/

200/ Plate prices worth ……………………………………………………… /584/ 13/ 9/

Pryces …………………….. 1500/ To bee drawen …………………….……/1038/ 4/ 9/

Teste me Rogero Hawfeilde ….

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