IV. December 1257

Know all present and future that we Hugh le Colt, Alice daughter of Robert the Bedel, Petronilla my sister, Reinilda daughter of Thomas the Prepositus, Christina my sister, and Christina the daughter of Knithwin, have demised and quit claimed, and by this our present charter have confirmed, to the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of the blessed Mary in Dover the whole of our right and claim which we have, or might have, or in the future shall have, in the whole tenement which belonged to Nicholas son of John Ruff, butcher ; to wit, within the liberty of Dover, in the place which is called Sconebroke and in Attertune, in the tenure of the aforesaid Master and Brethren : So that neither we, nor our heirs, nor anyone by us, nor for us, shall be, nor ought to be, able to have nor challenge henceforward for ever, any right or claim in the whole of the aforesaid tenement of Sconebroke and Attertune ; Saving, however, to ourselves the service which Nicholas, the son of John Ruff, butcher, owed us for the said tenement. For this, however, our demise and quit-claim, and the confirmation of this our present charter the aforesaid Master and Brethren have given us one marc sterling. And, in order that this our demission and quit claim and the confirmation of this present charter may remain firm and stable, we have confirmed the present charter with the impression of our seals. 

This charter was made and recorded in the forty-second year of the reign of King Henry, son of King John, in the month of December. 

Witnesses, Thomas, son of Vergile, then Prepositus of Dover ; James Lucas, then Mayor ; Nicholas, son of Richard ; Sir George ; Richard le Archier ; Stephen Hurtin ; Peter Corbayle ; Hamo Corbayle ; John Trippe ; John at Stile ; William, son of Alan ; William of Dover. Clerk ; and many others.