| Description | From: Warresius de Valoyns, knight
To: the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
His ancestors have been bound to pay to the priory in its treasury an annual payment of 8s for Underdown ('Underdoune'). He binds himself to pay this, allowing right of distraint over the land and over 'Wolmeresdoune', containing 84 acres, and the adjacent wood. These lie with the land of the archbishop's tenants of Kenfield [in Petham] to south, the king's highway from Canterbury to Kenfield to west, the land of St Gregory's Priory, Canterbury, called 'Ryderle' to north, and Warresius' land called 'Middeldoune' to east. No date.[Date: handwriting. In 1254 arrears in this payment were settled by a fine between Warresius and the cathedral priory (I Churchill et al (eds), Calendar of Kent Feet of Fines (Ashford, Kent Archaeological Society, 1956), p255). For further details of the family see F R H Du Boulay, The lordship of Canterbury (London, 1966), pp362-3.]
Endorsed with description, Chartham, cross patee fitched in red ink, and note of registration in contemporary hands. |