CXXI.
20 June 1562.
This indenture witnesseth that William Hannington, Mayor of the Town and Port of Dover, in the county of Kent, Thomas Painter, John Hobday, Robert Nicham, and Christopher Eliott, Chamberlains of the said town, with the common assent and consent of the whole Commonalty of the said town, have delivered, granted, and at fee ferm demised to Thomas Dawkes, of the town and port of Dover aforesaid, yeoman, a vacant plot of land with all its appurtenances, containing in length five measured roods of land, and in breadth to the deep sea, lying and being within the Liberty of the town and port of Dover aforesaid, between the land of the said town, now in the occupation of William Lomas, to the south-west ; and the land of the town aforesaid, now in the occupation of Anthony Reade, to the north-east : and King Street to the north-west ; and the deep sea to the south-east : to have and to hold the aforesaid vacant plot of land, with all its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Thomas Dawkes, his heirs and assigns, from the feast of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist next following after the date of the presents, from year to year one after the other to the end of the term of ninety-nine years next following and fully complete : on doing therefor the service of our Lady the Queen and her successors, according to the custom of the port of Dover aforesaid when it shall befall : and also on paying and giving therefor annually to the Mayor and Chamberlains of the said town for the time being, at the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, iid. as an annual rent : and if it happen that the aforesaid annual rent of lid. be in arrear unpaid, in part or in whole, at the feast or term on which it should be paid, and be unpaid beyond the aforesaid term for the space of fifteen days, if legitimately claimed, then it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Chamberlains of the said town for the time being to re-enter, re-have, and peaceably enjoy, as in its pristine estate, the aforesaid plot of vacant land, into whomsoever's hands it may have come, and the aforesaid Thomas Dawkes, and his assigns, totally expel and remove therefrom, this present indenture notwithstanding.
In witness whereof as well the common seal as the seal of the aforesaid Thomas Dawkes are alternately affixed.
Given on the twentieth day of June in the fourth year of the reign of our Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, in the year 1562.