Appendix C

King John confirms the grant of large donations of land by Nicholas, the son of Alan and * Roesia, his wife, to William Brewer. 

Rot. Chart., 12 i\'ov., \.^ John : ed. Hardy, fol. 189, and cf. 189 b. 

* Roesia was the daughter of the Lord of Chilham, and married as her second husband Richard, the king's bastard son. 
 
King John confirms the grant of a messuage, situated in Dover, between the stream, the house of James the son of Thomas, and the Bridge of Pet% made by Robert de Turn ham to Solomon the son of Letheline, Robert de Turnham received this messuage from Richard I. 

Rot. Chart., 15 Sep., 17 John: ed. Hardy, fol 2 i 8 ^. 
 
The Patent Rolls of King John give the names of several Dover men, and it may prove interesting to give them. 

Adam, of Dover, a shipowner, and probably Hugh at Hall in 1203. {Rot. Pat. John: ed. Hardy, fol. 2,2.) Gil bert, of Dover, was outlawed and pardoned for his participa tion in the misdeeds of Fulke Fitz Warine {ib. f. 36). Salem, the son of Salek (ib. 112 b), and Absalom, the son of Simon, were shipowners {ib. 191). William, the son of John ; Wilekin, of London ; Arnold, the butcher ; Hamo ; Godwin ; and Lathful ; all described as Dover men were in prison at Dorchester in 12 13, and Monekinus de Dover was one of their mainpernors {ib. 202). 

Solomon the Prepositus and Nicholas Harengod are mentioned in September 12 15. {Rot. Fin. Roll Ser., 566.) In Rot. Pat., Henry III. {Roll Ser.), we find John Erlewin de Dover and Alexander de Dover as shipowners {fol. 5 b) ; Brito de Dover, who was living in the previous reign (/. 1 70) ; Cecilia de Dover (/ 480), Jordan Bal, Thomas le Nevou, Copinus, son of Absalom of Dover, Gervasius Parvus de Dover (/. 515), and Turgisius de Dover (/ 587). In the Excerpta Rot. Fin., fol. 145, Salekin of Dover, Custos of the King's Mint at Canterbury, is reported as dead on the 4th August 1226.