| Description | From: Henry VIII, king of England
To: Walter Hendle, esq, attorney of the Court of Augmentations
[Document damaged. Several areas of text lost or illegible. Sense unclear in places.] The manors of Ebony and Ebony Pryory, in Kent, formerly belonging to the dissolved monastery of Canterbury Cathedral Priory, also 2 messuages, 6 cottages, 10 gardens, 200 acres of land, 240 acres of freshwater marsh, 300 acres of salt marsh, 200 acres of ..., ...20 acres of gorse, and an annual payment of 66s 8d in Ebony, Woodchurch, Appldeore, Tenterden, Stone, Wittersham and Kennardington. Also the manor of Comden [in Frittenden], formerly belonging to the dissolved monastery of Leeds Priory, with 2 messuages, 2 gardens, 300? acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, 100 acres of gorse and an annual payment of 20s in Frittenden. Also the income from the manors. Reserving an annual payment of 53s 4d from the manors of Ebony and Ebony Pryory for the repair of the sea walls. The lands are to be held as fully as Thomas Goldwell [II] and Thomas Day, the last priors of Canterbury and Leeds, held them. For the service of one-twentieth part of a knight's fee and annual payments of 44s for the manors of Ebony and Ebony Pryory and 9s 9d for the manor of Comden, payable as specified at the Court of Augmentations. The grant is made in consideration of Walter's good service and for a payment of £300. Sent patent. By the king himself and of the authority of parliament. The clerk is Hales.
Elaborately decorated first line. The initial letter contains a portrait of the king enthroned, holding a sceptre in his right hand and orb in his left, with a scroll bearing the words 'VIVAT REX' above. In the border above the first line: a shield with a cross, encircled with a garter; a lion sejeant, crowned, facing to right, holding a banner charged with a fleur de lis; a rose, crowned; a dragon, holding a banner charged with a fleur de lis; a fleur de lis; a chained portcullis; a sunburst containing 3 ostrich plumes within a crown, the quills passing through a scroll bearing the words 'ich dien'. Grisaille shading. The whole of the first line written in large, decorative letters, the initial letter of each word elaborately pen flourished, and decorated with foliage.
Given at Westminster [Middlesex]. |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, seal cut off, torn at intersections of folds, faded and brittle in parts, stained, several areas of text flaked off, stained |