XXXIV. 1 October 1385

Know all by the present indenture that Nicholas de Hawte, Chevalier, and Edmund de Hawte, have demised to the Prior and Convent of Saint Martin of the New Work, of Dover, all their lands and pasture with their appurtenances lying in the parish of Hougham, in a certain place called Highcliffe and Archcliffe : to have and to hold the aforesaid lands and pastures with their appurtenances to the aforesaid Prior and Convent and their successors, from the day of the date of these presents to the end of the thirty years next following fully complete ; the said Prior, Convent and their successors paying therefrom annually to the aforesaid Nicholas and Edmund, and their heirs, at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, 20s. of current English money : and if the aforesaid rent, or any part of it, be in arrears for fourteen days beyond the term assigned, it shall then be fully lawful for the aforesaid Nicholas, Edmund, their heirs and assigns, or their attorneys, to distrain as well on all the lands of the Manor of Farninglo belonging to the said Prior and Convent, as on the lands and pastures aforesaid demised, as is premised, to the Prior and Convent aforesaid, and to take, lead away, and retain the distraints until they shall be fully satisfied for the rent and all arrears of it. 

In witness whereof the seals of the said Nicholas and Edmund, as well as the common seal of the Prior and Convent aforesaid, are alternately affixed to the parts of this indenture. 

Given at Hougham, on the first day of October in the ninth year of the reign of King Richard, the second from the conquest of England.