I Isaac Watson do hereby acknowledge that I do accept of the free school at Earls Colne agreeable to the appointment given me by Sam Towle esq and that I will teach thirty boys english writing and arithmetic and if the said Sam Towle should be desirous to appoint some other person to be schoolmaster instead of me the said Isaac Watson then and in such case I the said Isaac Watson am to have six months notice of such his intention acknowledged by me Isaac Watson