XL. 14 August 1392

Know all present and future that 1, Sir Thomas Wite, Rector of the Parish Church of S. John the Baptist, Dover, have given, granted, and, by this my present charter, have confirmed to Thomas atte Crouche and Johanna, his wife, 2 sh. of free and annual rent arising from a certain messuage with its appurtenances within the Liberty of the Port of Dover, in S. Mary Ward, between the King's highway to the south and east, and the tenement of Thomas Combe, coal merchant, to the west, and the cemetery of the Parish Church of S. Peter, Dover, to the north : to have and to hold the said 2 sh. of free and annual rent to the aforesaid Thomas and Johanna, his wife, their heirs and assigns, for ever : and I, the aforesaid Sir Thomas and my successors, the future Rectors of the said Church, will for ever warrant the said 2 sh. of free and annual rent to the aforesaid Thomas and Johanna, his wife, their heirs and assigns, against all men. 

In witness whereof I have affixed my seal to this present charter. 

Given at Dover the fourteenth day of August in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Richard the Second. 

Witnesses : John at Hall, then Mayor ; John Ceroid, then Bailiff ; John Evebroke ; Thomas Lorde ; Nicholas Spisour ; William Spisour ; William England ; and others. 

A perfect seal remains.