XXX. 20 September 1371

Be It known to all by this present indenture that John atte Halle, Mayor of the town of Dover, and the Jurates of the said town, for the use of the whole Community of the said town, have granted and demised at farm to Simon Walmer and Petronilla, his wife, a certain plot of land lying within the Liberty of the said town in Delf Ward, between the land of the Earl of Oxford to the north-east and the King's Highway to the north-west, and between the tene ment of the said Simon and the land of John Wilde to the south-east and the tenement of the said John Wilde to the south-west, which land belongs to the Community of the town aforesaid for several services to the Lord King and other burdens due therefrom at divers past times : to have and to hold the land aforesaid, with its appurtenances, to the afore said Simon and Petronilla, his wife, their heirs and assigns for ever, performing therefor the service of the Lord King when it shall arise, according to the custom of the port aforesaid ; and paying therefor annually, at the Feast of Easter, to the Commonalty of the town of Dover, 6d. sterling of free rent for ever ; and whenever the aforesaid annual rent shall be in arrear, in part or in whole, it shall be fully lawful for the ordinary successors of the said Commonalty and others their ministers, to distrain on the aforesaid land, and to retain the distresses until all arrears of the same shall be fully paid.

In witness whereof the seal of the Mayoralty of the port aforesaid, as well as the seal of the said Simon and Petronilla, have been alternately affixed.

Given at Dover, the twentieth day of September in the forty-fifth year of the reign of King Edward, the third from the conquest of England.