County: Kent
Code: D2148
Reference: London, British Library: Add. Charter 36522
Function: Attestation
[...] be hit to alle Cristen . that we Thomas of hylles Nicholas of hylles Gentilmen . Thomas [...] Thomas atte hale Thomas watte
[...] sufficciant comyners . alle of þe parysshe of Brenchesle . we beynge of the age the leeste of vs of thre skore wynter and
[...] vs iiij . skore wynter ; we knoynge & neghtbours beyinge to the londes and tenymentes atte Elmehirste . wyche tenymentes
[...] walters of Elmehirste . wyche tenementes withe many moo . beth holdynge and ever haue be owte of myende withe sevte
[...] other appurtenaunces rentes and seruices to the Courte of Beanecrouche ; wyche in olde tyme was sir Johns of Leneham
[...] Ric~ atte wealde and so downe to sir Thomas Colpeper that nowe is ; to the whiche courte of Benecrouche many of vs xlti
wynter to-gedir haue ben tenantes and sevtours of Court and ȝit be and in the same Courte take owre charges in Jurres be-twex
partie and partie . releued and payed owre rente owre auncetours and we with-owte tyme of myende ; And we newer knewe ne herde
telle ne never was cleymed this vij . skore wynter ; more of the tenementes of Benecrouche and hese . but x . s . as sheweth be a
custumare of the Bysshopis of Rouchester . gedered ones a ȝere . atte Midlentonn Sonundaye x . s . to be paied to the Bysshop of
Rouchester ; wyche x . s . for ese of the lordeship was parcelled owte be sir John of leneham and other that were lordes of Bene-
crouche that every man knewe what he shulde bere to the porcoun of this x . s . The Courte holde heriettes and relieffes and the
leve of x . s . withe alle the hole lordeshipe to sir Thomas Colpeper and ∧ his auncetours ; And never no Bysshop of Rouchester ther-in
put cleyme but this nowe late ∧ this iij ȝere withe-owte euydence shewynge . but be eville procurment . And that thes poyntes be trewe
alle ∧ & sume we seyne so helpe vs gode and halydome as we wil answere before gode atte daye of doome . and for mede of owre
soles in discheyinge of a mannes ryght . we make this testimone in owre lives . because we benn men of grete age . we be
owre oone wille withe-owte corarcoun haue touched the booke . Jn wittenessynge of thes thynges we haue sette to owre
seales . writen in the feste of Ester the ȝere of the regne of owre lorde kynge Henr~ the . v . after the conquest
of Englond the iiijte .