XLVII.
2 November 1402.
This is the final agreement made in the Court of the Lord King, held in the Port of Dover on the second day of November in the fourth year of the reign of King Henry, the fourth of England after the conquest, before Peter Reade, Mayor of Dover ; Patrick Saint Owen, Bailiff; John Evebroke, Robert Alein, Jurats ; and others of the said king's lieges there assembled : between Thomas at Crouche and Johanna, his wife, on the one part, complainants ; and John Court and Margery, his wife, on the other part, deforciants ; for a tenement, with buildings and its other appurtenances, situated in Dover in Singels Ward — on which behalf a plea for breach of covenant was issued between them in the said court, so that, to wit, the said John Court and Margery, being summoned, came, and acknowledged the said tenement with its appurtenances to be the right of the said Thomas and Johanna, his wife, and remitted and quit-claimed it to them, to have and to hold to the said Thomas and Johanna, their heirs and assigns, freely and quietly for ever : Moreover, the said John and Margery granted for themselves, and the heirs of the said John, that they will warrant the said tenement with its appurtenances to the said Thomas and Johanna, the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas, against all men for ever.
Know all men present and future that we, John Court, of Dover, and Margery, my wife, and Martha, the mother of the said Margery, have given, granted, and, by virtue of this our present charter, have confirmed to Thomas at Crouche, of Dover, and Johanna, his wife, a tenement with its appurtenances situated within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Syngel Ward, viz., between the tenement of Thomas Lord to the north-east, and the tenement which was lately William Clerk's to the south-west, and the tene ment of John Robert to the north-west, and between the King's highway to the south-east, which tenement indeed we lately acquired from Thomas Kingestone and Constance, his wife : to have and to hold the tenement aforesaid, with buildings and with all other its appurtenances, to the afore said Thomas at Crouche and Johanna, his wife, to the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas for ever : he performing 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 aforesaid John Court, and Margery, and Martha, and the heirs of me, the said John Court, will warrant the said tenement, with buildings and all other its appurtenances, to Thomas at Crouche 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 on the second day of November in the fourth year of the reign of King Henry, the fourth of England after the conquest.
Witnesses : Peter Reade, then Mayor of Dover ; Patrick Saint Owen, Bailiff; John Garton ; Thomas Lorde ; John Roberts ; John Nichole ; William Giles ; John Jay ; Richard Sedenor ; and others.
The seals remain in a perfect state.