Note AK — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 2)
Reading edition
The first draft, in MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 20, runs:—
'His father was then a prisoner at the King's bench; by the advantage of his son's industry, raysed a small some of money, which he adventured in the lottery (in such a yeare ...—since 1600—quaere annum) for the advancement of the plantation in Virginia: but he gott out of prison by this meanes. His motto was
I am a poor prisoner, God wott: God send me a good lott[460] I'le come out of prison and pay all my debt.
It so happened that he had a very good lott, that pay<d> all his debt.'