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XXXVI. Lord De La Warr. Covenant with Lord Zouch
December 27, 1617

Whereas the right Honorble Edward Lord Zouch, Lord Warden of the
Cinque portℯ hath paid One hundred pounds of current mony of England
into the handℯ of the lord Lawarr which mony the said Lord Zouch
* * doth aduenture with the said lord Lawarr in his present intended
voyage to Virginia uppon theise Condic̃ons followinge (that is to saye)
the lord Lawarr doth covnãnte with the said Lord Zouch * * * to
transporte Seaven able men into Virginia and their to plant them and to
and to prouide for their subsistinge and to ymploye them and their labours
for the best proffitt he can promissinge and covenantinge to retorne into
England a full third parte of the proffit of their labours be yt more or
lesse to the vse of the said Lord Zouch * * vntill such tyme as by the
costome of the Contrey the said men soe transported are to be made
ffreemen and afterward to ympose such convenient rent as they shalbe
hable to bare. A §which§ rent shalbe established to the said * * *
* * Lord Zouch * and his Assignes duringe the lives of the said
men soe transported And the lord Lawarr doth Covnãnte to give a true
noate of the names of those Seaven men to be soe transported soe soone
as they are of shalbe shipped for Virginia In witnes whereof the said
lord Lawarr hath sett his hand and seale the Seauen and twentith daie of
December Aō. d̴ni 1617 and in the ffifteenthe yere of the Raigne of Or
sou9aigne lord Kinge James of England ffraunce and Ireland and of
Scotland the one and ffiftith