I then underwritten do hereby promise, that, on my coming into
possession of my own estate, I will provide for Dorcas Martindale in a
gentlewoman-like manner, in my own house: or, if I do not soon obtain
that possession, or should first die, I do hereby bind myself, my
executors, and administrators, to pay to her, or her order, during the
term of her natural life, the sum of five pounds on each of the four
usual quarterly days in the year; on condition that she faithfully
assist me in my escape from an illegal confinement under which I now
labour. The first quarterly payment to commence and be payable at the
end of three months immediately following the day of my deliverance.
And I do also promise to give her, as a testimony of my honour in the
rest, a diamond ring, which I have showed her. Witness my hand this
nineteenth day of June, in the year above written.