SAM PEPYS

You are upon sight hereof to pay unto Captain Hare or his assignees the sum of one hundred and fourscore pounds lawful money of England for so much received of him h[ereby?] in pieces of eight and doubloons at 4s 6d the piece of eight. Hereof you are not to fail.

Dated March 11th 1655 on board the Naseby frigate in St Helen’s Road.