Ebook Diary of Sam Pepys, Esq. F. R. S

Cholmley, who insured as many as would, from drawing of the one blank for in which case there was the whole number of persons to one, which I think was three or four hundred. And so he insured about zoo for zoo shillings, so that he could not have lost if one of them had drawn it; for there was enough to pay the 101. But it happened another drew it, and so he got all the money he took.