LXXXVI. 8 August 1478

Know all present and future that we, Stephen Axsted, and Christina, my wife, of Dover, have given, granted, and by this our present charter have confirmed, to Thomas Gervcs, butcher, and Johanna, his wife, a tenement with a garden, with their appurtenances, situated within the Liberty of the Port of Dover aforesaid in Werston Ward, abutting on the tenement of Thomas Toky to the east, and on King's Lane to the west, alongside the vacant plot of Richard Grigge, deceased, to the north, and the garden formerly Simon Page's to the south : to have and to hold the aforesaid tenement with the garden, with their appurtenances, to the aforesaid Thomas, and Johanna, his wife, their heirs and assigns for ever : they doing therefor the service of our Lord King when it shall arise, and also the services thence due and by right accustomed to the capital lords of the fee : and we, the aforesaid Stephen and Christina, my wife, and our heirs, will warrant the aforesaid tenement with the garden, with their appurtenances, to the aforesaid Thomas, and Johanna, his wife, against all men for ever. 

In witness whereof we have set our seals to this our present charter. 

Given at Dover aforesaid on the eighth day of August in the eighteenth year of the reign of King Edward, the fourth of England after the conquest. 

Witnesses : Thomas Exstall, then Mayor of the town aforesaid ; Richard Palmer ; Thomas Foche ; Thomas Toky ; Robert Lucas ; 1 homas Rimour ; and others.