XXXI. 24 September 1375

Know all present and future that John Monin, senior, Mayor of the town of Dover, and the Jurats of the said town, with the assent of the whole Commonalty, have granted, and, by the present indented charter, have demised at fee farm to Robert Swanton, of the same town, and Johanna, his wife, a certain plot of vacant land lying within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Derreman Ward, viz., between the King's highway to the south-west, and the sea cliff to the north-east, and the land of John Wilde to the south-east : to have and to hold the aforesaid land with its appurtenances to the aforesaid Robert and Johanna, his wife, their heirs and assigns, for ever, they performing therefore the service of the Lord King when it shall arise, according to the custom of the port aforesaid ; and paying therefor annually to the aforesaid Commonalty at the Feast of Easter, lid. sterling of annual rent, and the aforesaid Robert and Johanna, his wife, and their heirs, will and grant that it shall be fully lawful for the Mayor and Jurats of the town afore said, for the time being, and their attorneys to distrain on the aforesaid land with its appurtenances for the aforesaid annual rent as often as it shall be in arrear, and to lead away and detain the distresses until the aforesaid rent and all arrears thereof shall be fully paid : and the aforesaid Mayor and Jurats, and their successors, in the name of the said Commonalty will warrant the land aforesaid with its appurtenances to the aforesaid Robert and Johanna, his wife, their heirs and assigns, for the annual rent aforesaid, against all men for ever.

In witness whereof the seal of the office of Mayoralty is affixed to this present indented charter.

Given at Dover the twenty-fourth day of September, in the forty-ninth year of the reign of King Edward, the third after the conquest of England, and of his reign of France the thirty-sixth.

One seal intact, and portions of another, remain.