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The only record which will give an idea of the value of the first lottery is in the chancery proceedings, and relates to a suit of the company with
William Leveson to secure moneys from the lottery, in which the sum received in 1613 is here stated to have been £2,793 and 10 shillings. The answer of
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Leveson responded by an Answer dated 30 November 1613. Along with Leveson, the Company sued one William Hall, esquire, who filed an Answer on 15 February 1614. The lawsuit is a valuable source of information concerning the Virginia Company's first lottery:
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Leveson's will suggests that his fortunes declined in his latter years. He made his last will on 8 January 1621, leaving bequests to his wife Mary, his sons, Thomas and James, and to various servants, and died not long afterward. The will was proved on 21 June 1621.
182:, Surveyor of Customs for the Port of London. When Carmarden's officers confiscated Leveson's packs, Leveson and others beat the officers and uttered 'wild words' against the Queen's authority. Leveson was released from custody after begging pardon and paying costs.
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488:'St. Pancras Soper Lane 145/10', Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), pp. 691-704
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Virginia
Company vs. William Leveson, The Answer of William Leveson to the Bill of Complaint, 30 November 1613, Records of the Virginia Company of London, University of Virginia Library
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sent a letter to the
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Leveson is of further interest in that it alone tells of the methods by which the business was conducted and of the house built for the lottery west of St. Paul’s Church.
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in 1592 between William Leveson, mercer, and William Chapman,
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