LI. 11 August 1405

This indenture between Sir Thomas Herry, Rector of the Church of Saint Nicholas, Dover, and John Boydin, feoffees of John Gailer, for lands and tenements which were his on the day on which he died, lying within the Liberty of the Port of Dover, and Thomas at Crouche, witnesseth, that whereas the said Thomas at Crouche acquired from the said feoffees a garden with two houses thereon, that the said Thomas at Crouche permits Alice Gailer to peacefully have and obtain for the term of her life one house of the two houses, the lower towards the north-west, with reasonable access to it at all seasonable times, that is to say, he permits her to have peacefully and to obtain half of the said garden from the Poplar placed there as a land-mark, with reasonable access to the same, and with easement of water there : it shall not however be lawful for the said Alice to make any waste or estrepement of the said house, but she shall maintain it in a reasonable state ; nor shall she in any way fell any trees growing on the aforesaid half garden which is thus demised to her ; and if the said Alice shall commit waste and estrepement on the said house, or if she shall not have sufficiently kept it up, then be it lawful to the said Thomas at Crouche, the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas to re-enter the said house, thus demised to the said Alice, and possess it for himself in fee simple for ever, or if the said Alice shall fell any of the big trees growing upon the said half of the garden, to the deterioration of the said ground, then be it lawful to the said Thomas at Crouche, the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas, to re enter the said half of the garden and to possess it for himself peacefully in fee simple for ever, without let of the said Alice or any one else in her name. 

In witness whereof the said parties have alternately affixed their seals to these indentures. 

Given at Dover, the eleventh day of August in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry, the fourth of England after the conquest.