CI.
23 June 1542.
The present indenture witnesseth that Thomas I'oxley, Mayor of Town and I'ort of Dover, John Tayler, Robert Geiles, John Owen, and Richard Cooke, Chamberlains of the said town, with the unanimous assent and consent of the whole Commonalty of the said town, have delivered, granted, and at fee rirm demised to Robert Upton, a certain plot of land, with its appurtenances, lying within the Liberty of the F*ort of Dover in Ward, between the King's highway to the north-west, the land of the said Robert Upton, formerly Richard Couche's by right of his wife, to the south-south-east and west-south-west, and the land of the Domits Dei of Dover north-east : to have and to hold the aforesaid plot of land, with its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Robert Upton, his heirs and assigns for ever : on doing therefor the service of the Lord King according to the custom of the port aforesaid when it shall befall : and on paying therefor annually to the Mayor and Chamberlains of the said town for the time being, at the Feast of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist, 4[^/.] sterling of annual rent : and if the said ^d. of annual rent shall happen to be in arrear, in part or in whole, in any year after the aforesaid feast, for one quarter of a year, that then it shall be lawful for the aforesaid Mayor and Chamberlains, and their successors, the Mayors and Wardens of the said town for the time being, in and for the name of the Commonalty, to re-enter the aforesaid plot of land, with its appurtenances, into whosesoever hands it shall afterwards have come, and to re-have it for their use, and peaceably possess it for ever, this indenture in any way notwithstanding : and we, the aforesaid Mayor and Chamberlains and Commonalty of the said town, and their successors, will warrant the said plot of land, with its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Robert Upton, his heirs and assigns, in the form aforesaid, against all men for ever.
In witness whereof as well the common seal of the town and port of Dover aforesaid, as the seal of the aforesaid Robert Upton, are alternately affixed to these indentures.
Given at Dover aforesaid on the twenty-third day of the month of June, in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of the Lord Henry VIII., by the grace of God King of England, Krance, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and on earth under Christ Supreme Head of the English and Irish Church.
In dorso : John Marboll.