(seq. 7)

[at bottom of verso page, presents upside down]

Concord
[symbol?] [illeg.] for
[illeg.]

An agreement made and agreed upon by the
towne and Church of Concord concerning the
Colledge att Cambridge, made {August}. 22. 1653.

It is agreed by the company of the sayd towne and church, to
give yearley the sume for the use of the sayd Colledge of five pounds,
to be leauyed upon
the Same towne after the same manner as the other rates
are leauyed, and to be payed in [att?] or before the last of the month of May.
the sayd yearly Sum of 5 [pounds] to continue
for the Space of seuon years, and then to be [ether?] re-
newed if [we] it shall appeare that it may be [improved?] for
good, or otherwise [illeg.] to be at [libertye?] to doe according to
the state of things then being. And for the terme of Seuen
yeares [aforesayd?], the sayd towne of Concord doth desire that this order
may be recorded in the court, and confirmed by the autorie-
tye of the Same. In witness of our consent [hereto?], we have
hereby sett our handes, the day and yeare above written.

[Peter? Bulkeley?]
Simon Willard James Blood
Timothy [illeg.] William Butterick
Robert [Merriam?] Nathaniell Ball
Thomas [handwritten "T"] Brooks mark [H Barat
[indecipherable signature] Geo Meriam
Robert Fletcher
George [wheler?]
William [handwritten W] Woods mark
James [??]
John [S------]
Thomas Wheeler