CXXX.
4 September 1565.
This indenture witnesseth that William Burden, Mayor of the town and port of Dover, and the Jurats there, 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 Thomas Wattson, of the town and port aforesaid. Jurat, a plot of land, with all its appurtenances, lying and being within the Liberty of the town and port aforesaid in Halvenden Ward, in the road called Broad Street, between the tenement of William Calle to the north-east, the Common Lane to the south-east, the tenement of the heirs of Adrian W^hite to the south-west, and the aforesaid road called Broad Street to the north-west : to have and to hold the aforesaid plot of land, with all its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Thomas Wattson, his heirs and assigns, to the use of the said Thomas Wattson, and his heirs and assigns, for the term of twenty-one years, and, furthermore, from twenty-one years to the twenty-one years next following, to the end of a term of the ninety-nine years next ensuing and fully complete after the date of the presents : he doing therefor the service of our Lady the Queen, according to the custom of the town aforesaid, when it shall befall : and paying therefor annually to the Mayor and Jurats of the said town, for the time being, at the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2J. 6d. lawful English money : and if it chance that the said annual rent of 2s. 6d. be in arrear beyond the term aforesaid for fourteen days unpaid, in part or in all, then it shall be lawful to the Mayor for the time being to re-enter and peacefully possess for ever for himself and his succes sors, the Mayors of the said town, the aforesaid plot of ground, with its appurtenances, into whomsoever's hand it shall have come.
In witness whereof as well the Common Seal of the said town, as the seal of the aforesaid Thomas Wattson, are alternatelv set to these indentures.
Dated at Dover aforesaid on the fourth day of Septem- ber in the seventh year of Elizabeth, etc., in the year 1565.