To all to whome these presents shall come greetinge Knowe yee that I W^m Ewens M^r of the good Ship the George of 150 tun burden nowe resident in the Riuer of Thames for and in consideracon of the Sume of 480^li of good and lawfull money of England to mee in hand paide and deliuered by the Treasurer and Companie of Aduenturors and Planters of the Cittie of London for the first Colonie in Virginia before the insealinge and deliuery hereof and for and in consideracon of certaine couenants between them and mee agreed I the said W^m Ewens do promise and couenant in manner and forme followinge Imprimis that the good Shipp the George before her departuer out of River of Thames shalbe stronge and staunch and in all things well fitted and prouided aswell with furniture belonging to a Shippe as also Marriners and Sea men fitt and sufficient for the safe and good pformance of the voyage now intended and couenanted

Item I doe couenant and promise with the first opportunity of wynde and weather to sett sayle w^th the first Shippe for the Porte of the Cowes neare the Ile of Wight and there to receaue and take into the said Shippe such Passeng^rs and goods as the said Treasuro^r and Company shall direct and appointe and no other and I do further couenante and promise after the Passengers and goods shalbe receaued into the said Shippe to departe from thence the directest course for the Porte of James Citty in James Riuer in the Kingdome of Virginia and during the time of the said voyage to giue and make such allowance of victuall to the Passengers as by the Shedull herevnto affixed is specified. And I doe promise and couenant to deliuer the said Passengers and goods (mortallity and dangers of the Seas onely excepted) safe and well condiconed at James Cittie in Virginia accordinge as the said Treasuror and |Company shall direct and appointe.

And I do further promise and couenant to take and receaue into the said Shippe the George such Tobacco as the Governo^r and officers residinge in Virginia shall lade aboord here duringe the time that the said Shippe shall abide in Virginia for the Account of the said Treasuro^r and Company here in England & the said Tobacco and their goods to deliuer and consigne safe and well condiconed (the danger of the Seas excepted) to such ffacto^rs in England or Holland or Ireland and at such Ports as the said Treasuror and Companie shall appointe and ordaine.

And to the pformance of all and singular the Couenants aboue recited to be well and truly holden kept and pformed in all things by mee I the said W^m Ewens binde my self my executo^rs and Administrato^rs and goods and namely the Shippe aforesaid w^th the fraight tackle boale and apparell of the same vnto the saide Treasuro^r and Companie and their Successors in the Sume or penaltie of 1000^li of lawfull money of England well and truly to be paide by these presents : In Wittnesse whereof I haue herevnto sett my hand and Seale this [blank] day of July 1621 And in the yeares of the raigne of or soueraigne Lord James by the grace of God King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland Defendor of the faith that is to say of England ffrance and Ireland the 19^th and of Scotland the fower and fiftith.

Source: Additional Manuscripts, 14285, ff.78a-79a. British Museum.