XCVIII. 20 October 1524

This indenture, made on the twentieth day ot October in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, witnesseth, that John Broke, Mayor of the Town and Port of Dover, and Richard Marshall, Ralph Buffkyn, Thomas Middleton, Kenelm CoUev, Chamberlains of the said town, by the assent and consent of the whole Commonalty of the town aforesaid, have granted, demised, and delivered to William Graunger, a messuage with [its] appurtenances situated and being within the Liberty of Dover aforesaid, in Boureman Ward, to wit, abutting on one side on the King's highway leading above the Town Wall called " Above Wall " to the south-east, alongside the Town Wall to the south-west, abutting on the other side on the land of Thomas Eibeas, in right of his wife, to the north-west, and alongside the lane called "Boureman Lane" to the north-east : to have and to hold the aforesaid messuage with all its appurtenances to the aforesaid William Graunger, his heirs and assigns, for ever : on paying annually to the aforesaid Mayor and Commonalty, and their successors for ever, an annual rent of 2sh. %d. on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and doing therefor the service of the Lord King when it shall befall according to the custom of the port aforesaid : and if it happen that the aforesaid annual rent of ish. SJ. be in arrear unpaid, in part or in whole, for the twenty-one days next ensuing after any feast on which it should be paid, or if it happen that the said messuage with [its] appurtenances be without competent and sufficient repair from time to time, that then it shall be fully lawful for the Mayor and Commonalty of the town aforesaid, and their successors, to re-enter the aforesaid messuage with appurtenances, and to re-have, enjoy, and possess it in its pristine estate, this present grant and demission in any way notwithstanding. 

In witness whereof as well the seal of" the office of the Mayoralty of the port aforesaid, as of the aforesaid William Graunger, to these present indentures are alternately set. 

Given at Dover aforesaid on the day and year aforesaid. 

On the back : " IVilliam Graunger, noiu Thontiis Fynnett, Jurat''