On the same leaf:
Saturday the Twelfth day of May, 1526. Messire Jehan de Varasenne,
nobleman, captain of the ships equipped to go on the voyage to the
Indies acknowledged that he had appointed, constituted and
instituted Adam Godeffroy citizen of Rouen, to whom be has given and
gives by these presents power and authority to act for the said de
Varrasenne [FOOTNOTE: The words "in his quality of captain of the
said ships" are here erased in the original, and they have added in
the margin these; "and for the said Godeffroy."] in one of the said
ships named the barque of Fescamp of the burthen of ninety tons or
thereabouts, of which the master is, after God, Pierre Cauvay, the
which ship to employ in trading and traffic for the said Varrasenne
in all things for the said voyage of the Indies as by the said de
Varrassenne shall be directed by articles and memoranda under his
sign manual to the said Godeffroy. And for doing this the said de
Varrasenne has promised to pay to the said Godeffroy for his trouble
and time and attention in doing and fulfilling the said articles and
memoranda according to his ability in making the said voyage of the
said barque, the sum of five hundred pounds Tours currency, and this
sum to pay on the return from the said voyage, to do which the said
de Varrasenne has bound and binds all his chattels and lands, and to
take them by execution immediately on the said return. And in like
manner the said Godeffroy has undertaken to make the said voyage and
duly and loyally to serve the said de Varrasenne, and to carry out
according to his power the said articles and memoranda which thus
shall be given by the said de Varrasenne.
And it is without prejudice of the goods, funds and merchandise
which the said Godeffroy shall have and might place on the said
ships to make the said voyage, which he and his shall have carried
away with them, for their profit, besides the said sum of five
hundred pounds Tours currency for the said voyage. And to keep this,
each for himself, both parties bind themselves, their chattels and
lands.
Present Jehan Desvaulx and Robert Bouton.