LXXXIV. 24 August 1477

This indenture witnesseth that Robert Vincent, Mayor of the town and Port of Dover, John Kullar, Robert Sinethiot and Nicholas Fine, Chamberlains of the said town, with the unani mous assent and consent of the whole Commonalty of the said town, have delivered, granted, and at fee farm demised to John Tempilman a plot of land lying within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Mankin Ward, between the land of Hugh Shereve to the north, the land of the Church of S. Nicholas to the east, the land of Simon Lovell to the south, and the common lane to the west : to have and to hold the aforesaid plot of land with its appurtenances to the aforesaid John Tempilman, his heirs and assigns, for ever : he doing therefor the service of the Lord King when it shall arise, according to the custom of the port aforesaid : and paying annually therefor to the Mayor and Chamberlains of the said town for the time being, on the Feast of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist, 4^. of annual rent : and if it happen that the said annual rent of 4*/. be in arrear unpaid beyond the feast aforesaid for fifteen days, then it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Chamberlains of the town aforesaid for the time being to re-enter and peacefully possess for ever for themselves and their successors, the Mayors and Chamber lains of the said town, the aforesaid plot of land with its appurtenances, into whomsoever's hands it shall in future come : provided always that the aforesaid Mayor, Cham berlains, and Commonalty, and their successors shall have in the aforesaid plot of land their common park for impark ing pigs without any let or hindrance of the said John Tempilman, his heirs and assigns, for ever : and the afore said Robert Vincent, Mayor, the Chamberlains, and Com monalty, and their successors, will warrant the aforesaid plot of land with its appurtenances to the aforesaid John Tempil man, his heirs and assigns, in mode and form aforesaid, against all men for ever. 

In witness whereof as well the seal of the office of the Mayoralty of Dover aforesaid as the seal of the aforesaid John Tempilman are alternately set to these indentures. 

Given at Dover on the twenty-fourth day of the month of August in the seventeenth year of the reign of King Edward, the fourth of England after the conquest.