 I'm Phillip McLeanville. I've been a fellow of the society for more than 40 years, and I've learned this broadside and loved it for many years because of its London history relevance and also its silver history relevance. Because what we have here is a poster basically, it's a piece of paper that would have been stuck up on a wall in a tavern on the London Street as an incentive to persuade people to buy watery tickets. Londoners were not buying tickets because of the rumours that came back about starvation and poor crops and so on, there weren't many profits to be made. There was a threat of Spanish invasion, although there was supposed to be a peace treaty in Spain from 1604. The Spanish were very nervous about the English settlements in North America and particularly on the Chesapeake Bay area. So we had a situation where the Virginia Company was desperate to attract more support. So having issued originally in 1612 an offer for the prizes of silver spoons, silver cups, silver salts and money and failed to sell enough tickets, they did then early in 1616, in fact February just 400 years ago. They issued this new broadside to be pasted up all over London, although this is the only copy that survives. Very fragile and it survives because it's been bound up in the 18th century into a volume of broadsides. This is unique as is the only copy of the 1612 original lottery showing the silver prizes which has survived in Spain. It was sent to Spain by the ambassador in London because of concerns like the way in which the English were pumping up the news from Virginia. Here we have this wonderful piece of paper and it shows us two of the very fancy prize cups. One crown with a figure of victory or fortune, the other a very smart fashionable German pineapple cup, possibly made by German artisans in London in fact, and then the sacks of money of crowns which would be handed out to be lucky lottery winners. And then the lottery being very fair, the man who was drawing the lottery showed us a gentleman and he's got two revolving barrels for which he would draw out the tickets. And then on either side the partners, the unwilling partners in the Virginia enterprise, the Virginia Indians and in theory they were going to be introduced to the benefits of Christianity. In fact of course what we know is that the English set us introduced diseases and there were battles and eventually the Indians were driven off a land. So what we have here is an advertisement for a project which in the short term was failing in the long term, thanks to Tobacco introduced by John Roth who married Papa Hunter, Syrian princess. Thanks to Tobacco of course Virginia has flourished for 400 years.