CXXVIII.
6 September 1564.
This indenture witnesseth that Thomas Pepper, Mayor of the Town and Port of Dover, John Sweting, William Ryve, Richard Haward, and William Unthanke, Chamberlains of the said town, with the unanimous assent and consent for and in the name of the whole Commonalty of the said town, have delivered, granted, and at fee farm demised to Christopher Eliott, of the town and port aforesaid, butcher, a plot of land, with it appurtenances, lying and being within the Liberty of the town and port of Dover aforesaid, in Morens Ward, between the land of our Lady the Queen, called a Mill House, now in the occupation of James Smythe, to the north-west ; and a tenement on one side of the common river, called the Alms House, and a tenement on the other side of the river, called the Alms House, to the south-east ; and the King's highway to the north-east ; and the King's highway called the Fishmarket, to the south- west ; which plot of land contains in length on the side next the Fishmarket, twenty-seven feet, and on the other side next the King's highway, thirty-one feet, and in breadth on the side next the Alms House, thirty feet, and on the other side next the Mill House, thirty-five feet : to have and to hold the aforesaid plot of land, with all its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Christopher Eliot, his heirs and assigns, and to the use of the said Christopher Eliot, his heirs and assigns, for a term of twenty-one years, and furthermore from twenty-one years to twenty-one years next following unto the end of a term of the ninety-nine years next ensuing and fully completed after the date of these presents : he doing therefor the service of our Lady the Queen and her successors according to the custom of the said town when it shall befall : and paying therefore annually to the Mayor of the said town for the time being, and to the Chamberlains of the same, at the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 5/. of lawful English money : and if it chance that the aforesaid annual rent of 5J. be in arrcar beyond the aforesaid term of fourteen days unpaid, in part or in whole, then it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Chamberlains for the time being, to re-enter and peacefully oossess the aforesaid plot of land with its appurtenances, into rvhomsoever's hands it shall have come, for themselves and their successors, the Mayor and Chamberlains of the said town, for ever.
In witness whereof as well the common seal of the town aforesaid, as the seal of the aforesaid Christopher Eliot, are alternately set to these indentures.
Dated at Dover aforesaid on the sixth day of September in the sixth year of the reign of Elizabeth, etc., in the year 1564.
On the back : The lease of Christopher Eliott, now Mr Tooke obtained from . , .