| Description | Party: the warden and convent of the Franciscan Friary, Canterbury
Party: William of Dover, citizen of Canterbury
[Document faded. some areas clearly legible only under ultra violet light.] Thomas, son and heir of John Dygge, enfeoffed William of a tenement in All Saints parish, next to the east part of the friary towards the River Stour. William binds himself to pay annual payments of 11½d to the attorney of Chilham and 3s to the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory, payable as specified. He promises the friars that he will not make a window or opening against the way by which the north part of their precinct is entered. Because the tenement has not been built, he obliges his tenement [worth?] 4s in the parish of St Mary Breadman, opposite the priory's messuage, with a right of distraint for the payments of 11½d and 3s until the land is built upon and inhabited. The friars promise to make a channel ('coaclum') against the water, 6 feet wide in the middle, with the priory's houses to south and to place or build an embankment ('scamellas' in acc) 9 feet wide in the middle next to the channel, so that William can build freely to the north. The friars grant that when the land it built on the obligation in the tenment shall be void. Right of distraint in the new tenement if payment in arrears subsequently.
Endorsed with description in mid 14th cent hand. |