CIII. 21 April 1546

To all Christ's lieges to whom the present deed shall come John Mascall, of Chart, near Sutton Valance, in the County of Kent, husbandman, one of the sons of Robert Mascall deceased — Greeting in the Lord. Know that I, the aforesaid John, have sold, given, granted, and by this my present deed for me and my heirs, have for ever confirmed to Thomas Franklin and his heirs for ever an annual rent of ten shillings sterling, annually arising from and in two plots of ground with their appurtenances, called Warnersland, lying and being in the parish of Boughton Monchelsea, in the county aforesaid, to wit, next the King's highway there to the east, next the land of Simon Smith, called Haibrook land, to the south and west, and next the land of Walter Mascall, called Claxhams, to the west and north : to have and to receive and levy the aforesaid annual rent of ten shillings tc the aforesaid Thomas Franklin, his heirs and assigns for ever, to be paid annually at two terms of the year, to wit, at the Feasts of S. Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in equal por tions for ever : and if it happen that the said annual rent of losh. be in arrear unpaid in part or in whole after any feast of the feasts on which it should be paid, that then so often it shall be lawful for the aforesaid Thomas Franklin, his heirs and assigns, to enter and distrain on the two plots of land aforesaid with appurtenances, and on any parcel of them, and the distraints so taken and had, lawfully there from to lead away, drive off, and carry offj and to detain them until, as well for the said annual rent and its arrears, or any parcel of it, as for the damage and expense had and sustained on that account, be fully paid and satisfied to the aforesaid Thomas Franklin, his heirs or assigns : and in order that this my gift and grant may be firm and stable and take effect, I, the aforesaid John Mascall, have put the aforesaid Thomas rrankll»' '11 full possession and seisin of the annual rent above written by paying and delivering two pence silver. 

It witness whereof I have set my seal to this my present deed. 

Given on the twenty-first day of April in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry VIII., etc. 

Wytnes : Stephy ffranklin, Stephen Mascall, John Pett of Fretinden, and others.