LXXXIII. 6 September 1474

Know all present and future that I, John Turvil, of Dover, have given, granted, and, by this my present charter, have confirmed to Alice, my wife, a tenement, and a garden annexed to the said tenement, lying and being within the Port of Dover in Boureman Ward and Georges Ward, between the King's highway to the south-east, the town wall south-west, the land of the Master and Brethren of the House of God, Dover, to the north-west, and the common lane north-east : to have and to hold the aforesaid tenement and garden, with their appurtenances, to the afore said Alice for the term of her life : she doing therefor the service of the Lord King when it shall arise, according to the custom of the Port aforesaid : and I, the aforesaid John, and my heirs will warrant the aforesaid tenement and garden, with their appurtenances, to the aforesaid Alice and her assigns during the life of the aforesaid Alice against all men for ever. 

In witness whereof I have set my seal to this my present charter. 

Given at Dover aforesaid on the sixth day of September in the fourteenth year of the reign of King Edward, the fourth of England after the conquest. 

Witnesses : Thomas Hexstall, then Mayor ; Nicholas, the Bailiff; Richard Palmer; Nicholas Lewis; John Tyler ; Richard Barow ; John Curdar ; and many others.