| Description | From: John Thomas; Hamo Thomekyn; Thomas Qyeyk; Cecilia Thomas; John Pyeres; Henry Bocher; Adam Phelip; Cecilia atte Felde; Thomas le Riede; John Pokot; Julian Kacherell; Thomas Charles; Charles Isaak; John Selkene; John le Graunt
To: Thomas Chiche; John, brother of Thomas Chiche; Stephen de Heneford'; John Kenteys; Richard Kenteys senior; Richard Kenteys junior; Edmund Kenteis; John Simon; Hamo Simon; John underwall'; William Stroder'; Walter Miles; John Miles; John atte Crouche; John Stroder'; Eustace Stroder'; John of Brooks End [in Birchington]; Adam atte Crouche; Adam le Gip; Thomas Machoun; Henry Charles; John de Eastone; John Rotier; Thomas atte Berne; Roger de Mereworth'; Simon Berce; William of Brooks End [in Birchington], chaplain ('capellanus'); Thomas Holeweye
The grantors are all of Gore End [Birchington] and the grantees are joint tenants of Brooks Ends [Birchington]. Both grantors and grantees are representing others.
3 roods and 7 perches of salt marsh ('mariscus salcus'), lying at Gore End [in Birchington], 4 furlongs ('quarentena') and 7 perches long and 12 feet wide, beginning at the place called 'pope' and extending to a place called 'quotesflotgate' which runs and descends ('currit et descendit') into the marsh, to make a ditch ('fossatum') from 'pope' to 'quotesflotgate' to drain ('asewyo') the common marsh of Brooks End. Thomas Chiche, John his brother, Stephen de Heneford', John Kenteis and the other joint tenants will make a bridge 12 feet wide over the ditch with 'quotesflotgate' to west, on the salt pasture of Thomas Charles which is of the fee of the prior [of Canterbury Cathedral Priory], and will maintain the bridge as a common crossing in the marsh of Gore End.
Thomas Charles also grants Thomas Chiche, John his brother, Stephen de Heneford' and the other grantees a plot of his salt marsh at Gore End, 20 perches long and 18 feet wide, extending from the sea wall next to 'quotesflodgate' as a drove-way ('chacea') for the commoners in the marsh of Gore End to drive their beasts from the wall to the end of the 20 perches and then over the bridge which Thomas Chiche and the others will build. If any of the grantors wish to build another bridge over the watercourse they can do so at their own costs and upon their own land, provided it does not damage the watercourse. The lands are to be held according to the law and custom of the law of the marsh ('lex marisci'). Probably the grantees' part of indenture. |