obverse and reverse of the Seal of the Virginia Company 
SIGILUM REGIS MAGNAE BRITANIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE  
PRO CONSILIO SVO VIRGINIAE  By his Majesty's Commissioners FOR VIRGINIA.  
WHereas the Kings most excellent Majesty, out of his especial Grace and care of the good of the Plantation of Virginia, hath granted a Commission under the Great Seal of England, dated the 15. day of this present month of july, directed to the right Honourable the Lord Viscount Mandevile Lord Precedent of his Council, and others of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and to diverse others, for the present ordering of the affairs of the Colony and Plantation of Virginia, until his Majesty shall make a full and absolute settlement thereof, according to his Royal intention:  
These are therefore to give notice to all Masters of ships, and all others, Planters, or Adventurers in or unto Virginia, who have any intention to go or send thither; That the Commissioners do weekly and every Thursday in the afternoon, sit about the execution of that Commission, at the house of Sir Thomas Smith, in Philpot Lane; whither all parties whom it shall concern, may repair, to receive such directions as shall be requisite, both for their own better warrant and surety who shall go thither, and for the better encouragement, and assuring of the Plantation already settled there.   

Imprinted at London by Felix Kingston. 1624.