CXIX. (Before the 8) September 1561

This indenture witnesseth that Richard Gibhs, Mayor of the Town and Port of Dover, Robert Finett, William Calle, William Tidiman, and John Allen, Chamberlains of the said town, with the unanimous assent and consent for and in the name of the whole Commonalty of the said town, have delivered, granted, and at fee ferm demised to Christopher Eliot, of the town and port aforesaid, butcher, a vacant plot of land with its appurtenances, lying and being within the Liberty of the town and port of Dover aforesaid, in Morrens Ward, between the land of the Lady Queen, called A Millhouse, now in the occupation of James Smith, to the north-west ; and a tenement called Le AUmeshouse to the south-east ; and King Street to the north-east, and the common lane to the south-west, which plot of land contains in length twenty-six feet, and in breadth to its north seventeen feet, and to its south seven feet : to have and to hold the aforesaid vacant plot of land with its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Christopher, his heirs and assigns, and to their use, for a term of twenty- one years, and furthermore from twenty-one years to twenty-one years, then the twenty-one following to the end of a term of the ninety-nine years next following after the date of the presents fully complete : on doing therefor the service of our Lady the Queen and her successors according to the custom of the town and port aforesaid when it shall befall : and paying therefor annually to the Mayor of the said town for the time being, and to the Chamberlains of the same, on the feast of the Assump tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ^sh. of legal English money : and if it happen that the said annual rent of 55//. shall be in arrear unpaid beyond the term aforesaid for fourteen days, in part or in whole, then it shall be lawful for the Mayor and Wardens for the time being, to re-enter and peaceably possess for themselves and their successors, the Mayors and Chamberlains of the said town for ever, the aforesaid plot of land with its appurtenances, into whomsrj ever's hands it may come. 

In witness whereof as well the common seal as the seal of the aforesaid Christopher Eliot are affixed to this indenture. 

Given at Dover on the aforesaid day of the 

month of September in the third year of the reign of Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith. In the year 1561.