LXXVI.
30 May 1466.
Know all present and future that Thomas Gore, Mayor of the town of Dover, and the Jurats of the same, with the consent, and for the service of the whole Commonalty, have granted and, by this present indented charter, have demised at fee farm to John Hancock, of Dover, one plot of vacant land lying within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Horsepool Ward, between the tenement of the Hospital of S. Bartholomew to the east, and the King's highway to the north-west, and next the vacant land lately Henry Sextain's, of Dover, to the south-east, and next the lane leading from the tenement of Henry Sextain to the sea to the south-west : to have and to hold the aforesaid land with its appurtenances to the aforesaid John Hancock, his heirs and assigns, for ever : they doing therefor 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 of the town of Dover, at the Feast of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist, dd. sterling of annual rent : and the aforesaid John Hancock wills and grants, for him self and his heirs, that it be lawful for the Mayor and Jurats of the town aforesaid 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 retain distresses until they shall be fully satisfied for the aforesaid rent and for all arrears of the same : and the aforesaid Mayor and Jurats and their successors, in the name of the said Commonalty, will warrant the aforesaid land with its appurtenances to the aforesaid John Hancock, his heirs and assigns, against all men for ever.
In witness whereof the seal of the office of the Mayor alty of the town of Dover is set to the present indented charter.
Given at Dover the penultimate day of the month of May in the sixth year of the reign of King Edward, the fourth of England after the conquest.
0« the back : Horspol Ward, John Hancock ; now William Foche, now Robert Kocier, now Peter Darell, now in the hands of John at Wood.