A History of English Lotteries by John Ashton

and their mottoes -- Lottery for armour in 1585 -- A Royal lottery at Harefield in 1602.

We see by this bill that in order that the subscribers should be anonymous, their shares were not to be taken in their names; but, as in some competitions nowadays -- notably in architecture -- the competitors are only known by their mottoes, so every subscriber to this lottery was to use a devise or posie. Of the posies of this particular lottery one at least remains, and it may be found in Geffrey Whitney's "Choice of Emblemes" (Leyden, 1586), p. 61.