LXIV. 2 April 1437

Know all present and future that we, John Braban, Giles Hoton, and Waiter Benit, of Dover, have demised, granted, and, by this our present charter, confirmed to John Denne, of the Parish of Kingston, and Stephen Belsise, of the Parish of Eiham, in the County of Kent, all those lands and tene ments, rents and services, with their appurtenances, lying and being within the Liberty of the Port of Dover, and without, in the County of Kent, all of which we lately had of the gift and feoffment of Thomas Colin, alias Oxenden, deceased, and Isabella, his wife : to have and to hold all those lands and tenements, rents and services, with appur tenances, to the aforesaid John Denne and Stephen, their heir and assigns, for ever : they doing therefor as well the service of the Lord King when it shall befall, according to the custom of the port aforesaid, as also the services due therefrom and by right accustomed to the capital lords of that fee. 

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

Given on the second day of the month of April in the fifteenth year of the reign of King Henry, the sixth after the conquest. 

Witnesses : William Brewis, then Mayor of the port aforesaid ; Walter Stratton ; Thomas Arnold ; William Hamond ; Thomas Combe ; Thomas Bover ; and others.