LXXIV.
4 September 1462.
This indenture witnesseth that Thomas Gore, Mayor of the town of Dover, Thomas Pety, Richard Palmer, Richard Beregh, and William Guston, Chamberlains of the said town, with the assent and consent of the Commonalty of the said town, have demised, delivered, and, by this present indented charter, have confirmed to Walter Fuller of the same town, one void plot of ground or land lying within the Liberty of the Port of Dover in Dereman Ward, between the land of Thomas Toky to the east, and the messuage of Stephen Axsted to the north, and the King's highway opposite to the town wall to the south, and a common lane to the west : to have and to hold the aforesaid ground or land with its appurtenances to the aforesaid Walter, his heirs and assigns for ever : they doing therefor the service of the Lord King when it shall befall, and the services moreover thence due to the capital lords : and paying therefor annually to the Mayor of Dover and the Chamberlains of the same for the time being, and their successors for ever., 8^. sterling, to be paid on the Vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary : and if it happen that the said annual rent of %d. shall be in arrear at any term on which it ought to be paid, then it shall be fully lawful for the Mayor of the town of Dover, and its Chamberlains for the time being, to enter and distrain on the aforesaid ground or land, and to lead away and drive off the distraints on that account taken until that which is in arrear shall be fully paid and satisfied.
In testimony whereof the aforesaid Walter has affixed his seal to the one part of this indented charter, remaining in the hands of the aforesaid Mayor and Chamberlains, to the other part, remaining in the hands of the aforesaid Walter, the seal of the office of the Mayoralty of Dover has been affixed.
Given at Dover on the aforesaid fourth day of Sep tember in the second year of the reign of King Edward the fourth.
Thomas Gore, then Mayor; Nicholas Burton, Bailiff; Thomas Grace ; and many others.
On the back : Dereman Ward is the same as Werston Ward.