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CV. 20 November 1551

CV. 
20 November 1551. 

This indenture made on the twentieth day of the month of November, in the fifth year of the reign of the Lord Edward VI., by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and on earth Supreme Head of the English and Irish Church, witnesseth, that Robert Justice, Mayor of the Town and Port of Dover, and John Harris, John Hughson, William Unthank, and William Beinge, Chamberlains of the said town, by the assent and consent of the whole Commonalty of the town aforesaid, have granted and demised, and at fee firm have delivered to Thomas Finnett, one of the Jurats of the town aforesaid, a messuage with appurtenances, situated and being within the Liberty of Dover aforesaid in Burman Ward, to wit, abutting on one side on the King's road leading above the wall of the town aforesaid, called '* Above W^all," to the south-east, bordering the said town wall to the south-west, abutting on another side on the lands lately Thomas Libeas', by right of his wife, and now in the hands of the Lord King to the north-west, and bordering on the lane called Burman Lane to the north-east : to have and to hold the aforesaid tenement, with all its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Thomas Finnett, his heirs and assigns, from the Feast of S. Michael, the Archangel, last past, before the date of the present to the end of the term of seventy years next follow ing and fully complete : on doing therefor the service to our Lord King when it shall befall, according to the custom of the town and port aforesaid : and also on paying therefor annually to the aforesaid Mayor and Commonalty, and their successors, an annual rent of 13^^. ^d. sterling of good and legal English money on the Feast of the Assump tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be paid annually : and if it happen that the said annual rent of 13;/;. 4^. be in arrear unpaid, in part or in whole, for the fifteen days next following after the feast aforesaid on which it should be paid, or that it happens that the said messuage, with appur tenances, be without competent and sufficient repair from time to time, that then it will be and shall be fully lawful for the Mayor and Commonalty of the said town, and their successors, to re-enter the aforesaid messuage with appurten ances, and to re-have, enjoy, and possess lit as in its pristine estate, the present grant and demission in any way notwith- standing. 

In witness whereof as well the common seal of the town aforesaid as the seal of the aforesaid Thomas Finnett arc alternately affixed to these indentures. 

Given at Dover aforesaid in the Common Hall there, on the day and year above said. 

In dorso : Presettt in seitlyng and delyveryng of thes presentes — Thomas PortduayCy bayllyffye ; Thomas Dazuxe ; Robart l.ome^ sargaunt ; Roger Wood^ towne clerke of Dovor ; John Cook, rent p. ann. 13J. j^d. 

RedSc-', IV. I,
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