LXXIII. 16 November 1454

Know all men by the presents that we, Robert, Nicholas, and James, sons and heirs of William Dade, lately of Shaterling, in the Parish of Staple, have remitted, released, and for ever altogether quit-claimed for us and our heirs, to Thomas Dade, our brother, for his full possession, the whole of our right, estate, and claim which we ever had, or shall in future in any way be able to have, of and in one messuage, six acres of arable land and three acres of brushwood, with their appurtenances, severally situated and lying in the Parishes of Staple aforesaid, and Wingham, as the metes and bounds for that purpose on every side divide and show, of which the aforesaid messuage is situated at Shaterling, and one acre lies outside the gate of the said messuage in two parcels, and three roods of the land aforesaid lie at Lanteghe in two parcels, and one acre lies in two parcels near the messuage lately Edward Newenam's, and one rood lies at Littlestreet, and a half acre lies at Eastfield, and a half acre at Orken, and a half acre at Hobbysole, and a half acre lies at Kingstreet, and a half acre lies at BrikenoUe, and a half acre lies near Welmistone Cross, and the three acres of brushwood lie at Byholt in the Parish of Staple aforesaid : so that neither we, Robert, Nicholas, and James aforesaid, nor our heirs, nor any one else in our name, shall in future be able henceforward to exact, claim, or challenge any right, estate, or claim to the aforesaid messuage six acres of arable land and three acres of brushwood, with their appurtenances, or in any parcel of them, but that by the presents we be for ever shut out from seeking all action of right, estate, and claim on that behalf. 

In witness whereof we have set our seals to the presents. 

Given on the sixteenth day of November in the thirty- third year of the reign of King Henry, the sixth of England after the conquest. 

Witnesses : Thomas Bertin ; William Bertin ; Richard Dade ; William Dade ; James Bertin ; and others.