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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The third charter to the Virginia Company, granted March 12, 1612, contained four clauses, sections xvi-xix, regarding the conduct of lotteries (Brown's Genesis of the United States, ii, 552).
[2] The Privy Council, upon complaint of the House of Commons, took action regarding the suspension of lotteries in Virginia on March 4, 1621 (Acts of Privy Council, Colonial, i, 39). For the general subject of lotteries in Virginia, see Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, ii, 275; Kingsbury, Records of Virginia Company, i, 93; Brown, Genesis of the United States, index; and Brown, First Republic in America, index. In the last reference, p. 394, this proclamation is incorrectly dated March 18. The proclamation is reproduced in fac-simile in Three Proclamations concerning the Lottery for Virginia, published by the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I., 1907, in which volume are also reproduced a broadside of 1613 issued by the Council for Virginia regarding the drawing of the lottery and "A Declaration for the certaine time of drawing the great standing Lottery," printed February 22, 1615 [-16].
[1622, November 6.]
[Prohibiting Disorderly Trading to New England.]
BY THE KING.