XCV. 20 September 1513

This iiKlcnture witncsscth that Nicholas Aldy, Mayor ot the Port and Town of Dover, and the Jurats of the said town, by the assent and consent of the whole Commonalty, have granted, demised, and delivered t(j Robert I* luce, of Dover, one plot of building land lying within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Snargate Ward, to wit, next a certain gate called Snargate, and the King's highway there, and the land of Nicholas Templeman to the north-east and west, and the land formerly John Claringbould's to the south-west : to have and to hold the aforesaid plot of land to the aforesaid Robert Fluce, his heirs and assigns for ever : he doing therefor the service of the Lord King when it shall befall, according to the custom of the port aforesaid : and also paying to the aforesaid Mayor, Jurats, and Com monalty, luid their successors for ever, an annual rent of 6</. of legal English money, to be paid at the Feast of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist : and if it happens that the aforesaid annual rent of 6^., or any part thereof, at any feast on which it ought to be paid, be in arrear, then it shall be fully lawful for the aforesaid Mayor, Jurats, and Com monalty of the aforesaid town, and their successors, to enter and distrain on the aforesaid land, and lead away and carry off the distresses so taken until the arrears be paid them. 

In witness whereof the seal of the office of the Mayor alty of Dover is affixed to the presents. 

Given at Dover aforesaid the twentieth day of Septem ber in the fifth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth.