LV. 27 January 1412

This is the final agreement made in the Court of the Lord King held in the Port of Dover on the twenty-seventh day of January in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Henry, the fourth of England after the conquest, before John Evebroke, Mayor; Thomas Page, Bailiff; also the Jurats and others of the said King's lieges there assembled ; between Thomas at Crouche, of Dover, and Johanna, his wife, on the one part, complainants, and Walter Bode, of Faversham, and Margaret, his wife, the daughter and heir of William Polton, of Dover, on the other part, deforciants, for the whole part of one tenement situated within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Ward from the said Walter and Margaret, on which behalf a plea (for breach) of covenant was summoned between them in the said Court : so that, to wit, the aforesaid Walter and Margaret, being summoned, came, and acknowledged that the whole of their part of the tenement was the right of the aforesaid Thomas and Johanna, and they remitted and quit-claimed it : to have and to hold to the said Thomas and Johanna, the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas, for ever : moreover, the said Walter and Margaret granted for themselves and the heirs of the said Margaret that they will warrant the whole of their part of the said tenement above-named to Thomas and Johanna, his wife, the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas, against all men for ever. 
 
Know all men present and future that we, Walter Bode, of Faversham, and Margaret, my wife, daughter and heir of William Polton, of Dover, have given, granted, and, by this our present charter, have confirmed to Thomas at Crouche, of Dover, and Johanna, his wife, the whole of our part of one tenement with its appurtenances, situated within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Ward, between the King's highway to the south-east, and the land of Robert Boidyn, butcher, to the south-west, and the land of the aforesaid Thomas to the north-west, and between the tene ment of John Petham to the north-east : to have and to hold the whole of our part of the tenement aforesaid with appurtenances to the afore-named Thomas and Johanna, his wife, the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas, for ever : they doing therefor the service of the Lord King when it shall befall, according to the custom of the port aforesaid, for all other services and demands : and we, the abovesaid Walter and Margaret, my wife, and our heirs, will warrant all our part of the tenement aforesaid, as is aforesaid, with appurtenances, to the abovesaid Thomas and Johanna, his wife, the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas, against all men for ever. 

In witness whereof we have affixed our seals to this our present charter. 

Given at Dover the twenty-seventh day of January in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Henry, the fourth of England after the conquest. 

Witnesses : John Evebroke, Mayor of Dover ; Thomas Page, Bailiff; Nicholas Spisour ; Thomas Arnold ; William Middleton ; Robert Boidyn ; John Petham ; John Toky ; Richard Sedenor ; and others.