Sir Walter Raleigh’s Bond
Know all men by these presents. That I, Walter Raleigh, Knight, am bound and surely obliged to the most honourable Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, lord high Admiral of England that now is, in five hundred pounds of English money, to be paid to him, Charles lord high Admiral of England, or to his appointed attorney, his heirs or executors ; for the good and faithful payment whereof I, by these presents, firmly bind myself, my heirs and executors.
Sealed with my seal and dated the twelfth day of the month of August in the year of the Lord, 1585, and in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of my lady Elizabeth, queen of England, &c.
Walter Raleigh.
