XXII. 26 April 1342

Know all present and future that we, John Kenp, and Alice, my wife, have given, granted, and, by this our present charter, confirmed to William Gibbe of Dover, junior, and Margaret, his wife, 2 shillings and 6 pence and one hen of free and perpetual annual rent, arising annually from a certain forge which William of Kenar tone, smith, of Dover, holds within the Liberty of the town aforesaid in Canon Ward, which forge abuts on the land of William Hortin towards the north-east, and on the King's highway to the south-west, bordering the King's highway on the south-west, and the Cemetery of the Church of the Blessed Peter of Dover towards the north-west : to have and to hold the aforesaid 2 shillings and 6 pence and one hen of free and perpetual annual rent to the aforesaid William and Margaret, and the heirs of the said William and his assigns, freely, quietly, well and peacefully in hereditary right for ever : And we, the aforesaid John and Alice and our heirs, will warrant the aforesaid 2 shillings and 6 pence and one hen of free and perpetual annual rent to the aforesaid William and Margaret, and the heirs of the said William and his assigns, against all men for ever.

In witness whereof our seals are set to this present charter on the Friday next after the Feast of S. Mark the Evangelist in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Edward, the third of England after the Conquest, and of his reign in France the third.

Witnesses, John Monin, then Mayor of Dover ; Alex- ander Hortin, then Bailiff of the said Town ; William Hortin ; John Salkin ; John Joseph ; William Archer ; Nicholas Hortin ; Nicholas Hall ; Thomas Spisour ; Nicholas Armentier ; Stephen the Clerk ; and others.

Two seals remain^ in red wax, one has an eight-poinied siar, the other the rough figure of a ship.