and Successors be for ever free from all manner of Tenths Fifteenths and other such like Tributes and Tallages although they themselves or any of them be Agents in such Grants And We have further granted for Us and Our Heirs to the aforesaid Barons and Honest Men that none of them their Heirs and Successors shall for the future be put in any Assizes Juries Recognizances Attaints or other Inquisitions whatsoever without the Ports and Members aforesaid although they concern Us or Our Heirs And that none of them be made an Assessor Taxer or Collector of Tenths Fifteenths or any parcel of them or other Subsidies Tallages Taxes or small Summs whatsoever which are or shall be granted to Us or Our Heirs Nor be Collector of the reasonable Aid for the creating the Eldest Son of Us or Our Heirs a Knight or for the Marrying the Eldest Son of Us or Our Heirs Nor shall any of them be chosen or appointed Constable Bailiff or other Officer and Servant to Us or Our Heirs without the Ports and Members aforesaid against his Will And in case that any of the aforesaid Barons Honest Men or their Heirs and Successors be for the future chosen ordained or appointed to undergo and perform the trouble of any of the Offices or Employments aforesaid or to undergo perform or take any other Office against the force tenour and efficacy of this our present Grant although he shall refuse to undergo perform or take upon him those Offices or Troubles yet he shall in no wise upon that account incur any Fine Contempt Forfeit loss or damage upon his Body or Goods but that Our present Letters shewed upon Record by him before any Justices and Officers whosoever to Us and Our Heirs in whatsoever place through Our whole Kingdom of England shall upon that declaration remain in their force and virtue and by that shall be allowed to do the same without any Writ or Process to be thence further prosecuted And that whensoever there shall happen any Examinations to be made before Our Constable of Our Castle of Dover or before the Warden of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid or Admiral of the fame such Inquisitions shall be had taken and done within that Port or Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid where they of the respective Ports and Members by whom these Inquisitions shall be taken do live and dwell and no where else And that they who are mentioned and Empannelled in the Inquiries aforesaid shall no way be bound compelled or forced to go out of their respective Port or Member to any other place to take their Charge or deliver their Verdict Nor shall they nor any of them any way upon that account incur any contempt amerciament penalty forfeiture or any loss to Us or Our Heirs Wherefore We Will and strictly Command for Us and Our Heirs Wherefore We Will. that the aforesaid Barons and Honest Men of the Ports aforesaid their Heirs and Successors have all and singular the Liberties and Acquitances aforesaid and all the Premises by Us renewed to them and every of them and that for the future without any impediment of Us or Our Heirs Without impediment or Our Officers whosoever they for ever use and enjoy them Witness hereunto the Reverend Prelate Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England Our most Dear Brothers George Duke of Clare and Richard Duke of Glocester the Reverend Priors George Bishop of Exon Our Chancellor of England and Thomas Bishop of London Richard Earl of Warwick and John Earl of Northumberland Our most dear Cosins as also Our Trusty and Well-beloved Mr. Robert Stillington Keeper of Our Privy-Seal and Walter Blunt Knt. Our Treasurer of England and others Given under Our Hand at Westminster the Twenty third day of March in the Fifth year of Our Reign But We Ratifying and likeing the Charters and Letters aforesaid and all and singular the things contained in them do accept and approve of them for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lieth and by the Tenor of these Presents do Ratifie and Confirm them to Our Well-beloved Barons and Honest Men of the said Cinque-Ports and Members of the same and to their Heirs and Successors as the Charters and Letters aforesaid do reasonably Testifie In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Thirteenth day of December in the Third year of Our Reign But We Ratifying and likeing well the Charters and Letters aforesaid and all and singular the things contained in them do accept and approve of them for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lieth and by the Tenor of these Presents do Ratifie and Confirm them to Our Well-beloved Barons and Honest Men of the said Cinque-Ports and their Members and to their Heirs and Successors as the Charters and Letters aforesaid do reasonably Testifie In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Fifth day of March in the first year of Our Reign But We Ratifying and likeing well the Charters and Letters aforesaid and all and singular the things contained in them do accept and approve of them for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lieth and by the Tenor of these Presents do Ratifie and Confirm them to Our Well-beloved Barons and Honest Men of the said Cinque-Ports and their Members and to their Heirs and Successors as the Charters and Letters aforesaid do reasonably Testifie In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Twentieth day of November in the Second year of Our Reign But We Ratifying and likeing well the Charters and Letters aforesaid and all and singular the things contained in them do accept and approve of them for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lieth and by the Tenor of these Presents do Ratifie and Confirm them to Our Well-beloved Barons and Honest Men of the said Cinque-Ports and their Members and to their Heirs and Successors as the Charters and Letters aforesaid do reasonably Testifie In Witness whereof we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Twenty seventh day of October in the First year of Our Reign But We Ratifying and likeing well the Charters and Letters aforesaid and all and singular the things contained in them do accept and approve of them for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lieth and by the Tenor of these Presents do Ratifie and Confirm them to Our Well-beloved Barons and Honest Men of the said Cinque-Ports and their Members and to their Heirs and Successors as the Charters and Letters aforesaid do reasonably Testifie In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Eigth day of March in the First year of Our Reign We have also looked upon the Letters Patents of the said Lady Elizabeth
for fifteen days at the Summons of Us or Our Heirs We have likewise granted to them of Our special Grace Utfangtheff that they may have Utfangtheff in their Lands within the Ports aforesaid like as Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Earls and Barons have in their respective Mannors in the County of Kent And that they shall not be Impannel'd upon Assizes Not be Impannel'd upon Assizes or Juries or any Recognizances by reason of their Foreign Tenure against their Will And that of their own Wines in which they Traffick they shall be quit from Our Right-Price Right-Price of Wine viz. of one Pipe of Wine before the Mast and another behind the Mast And we have further granted to the said Barons for Us and Our Heirs that they shall have this Liberty for ever viz. that We or Our Heirs shall not have the Guardianship or Giving in Marriage their Heirs upon the account of their Lands which they hold within the Liberties and Ports aforesaid for which they pay their aforesaid Service and for which We or Our Predecessors had not the Guardianship Giving in Mariage and giving in Marriage in times past But the aforesaid Confirmation of the Liberties and Acquaitances aforesaid and other Grants following We of Our special Grace have caus'd to be renew'd to them Provided always in all things there be nothing prejudicial to his Majesties Dignity to Us and to Our Heirs or hurtful to the Priviledges of Our Crown Life and Members Wherefore We Will and firmly Command for Us and Our Heirs that the Barons aforesaid for ever enjoy all their Liberties and Acquitances aforesaid according as the Charters aforesaid do reasonably testifie And that of Our special Grace they may have Utfangtheff in their respective Lands within the Ports aforesaid Utfangtheff after the same manner as Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Earls and Barons have in their respective Mannors in the County of Kent And that they shall not put in the Assizes Juries or any Recognizances upon the account of their Forreign Tenure against their Will And that in their own Wines in which they Traffick they shall be quit from Our Right-Price viz. of one Pipe of Wine before the Mast and another behind the Mast And that in like manner they may for ever enjoy the Liberty aforesaid viz. That We or Our Heirs shall not have the Guardianship or Giving in Marriage their Heirs upon the account of their Lands which they hold within the Liberties and Ports aforesaid for which they pay their aforesaid Service and for which We or Our Predecessors had the Guardianship or Giving in Marriage in times past But the aforesaid Confirmation of the Liberties and Acquitances aforesaid and other Our Grants following We of Our special Grace have caus'd to be renew'd to them Provided always in all things there be nothing prejudicial to his Majesties Dignity to US and to Our Heirs or hurtful to the Priviledges of Our Crown Life and Members as aforesaid Witnesses hereunto being the Reverend Father Robert Portunensis Bishop Cardinal of the Holy See of Rome Frier William de South Provincial Prior of the Fryer Preachers in England William de Valentia our Uncle Roger de Mortuo Mari Roger de Clifford Mr. Walter Stamell Dean of Salisbury Mr. Robert Scarborough Arch-Deacon of the East-Ridings Mr. Robert Sexton Bartholomew de Southley Thomas de Wayland Walter de Hopton Thomas de Normannel Stephen de Pencestre Francis de Bonona John de Levetot John de Metingham and others Given under Our Hand at Westminster the Seventeenth day of June in the Sixth Year of Our Reign This Charter before the Signing thereof was by the Kings command openly read in the pâ—esence of the abovenamed Witnesses and others of Our Council then present and was heard examined and agreed upon in the form above-written We have also look'd upon the Letters-Patents which the same Our Father made to the Barons aforesaid after these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To all Bailiffs and faithful Subjects to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting Know ye that for the faithful Service which Our Trusty and Well-beloved Barons and other Our Honest Men of the Cinque-Ports have hitherto paid to Us and Our Progenitors the former Kings of England and shall pay for the future We have granted to them for Us and Our Heirs that they and their Heirs the Barons of the said Ports shall for the future be ever free from all Tallages From all Tallages and Subsidies to be paid to Us and Our Heirs out of the whole or any part of their own proper Ships We have also granted to the same Barons and Men for us and Our Heirs That concerning the lawful things and Commodities which they in due manner shall buy within Our Dominion of Ireland Commodities in Ireland no one may be their Partners in those Things and Commodities nor partake with them in any wise against the Will of the same Barons and Men. We have further granted for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lyeth to the Barons and Trusty Persons aforesaid That all and every of them born within the aforesaid Cinque-Ports although they have Lands or Tenements without the Liberties of the said Ports which are held by such a Service as the Giving in Marriage upon the account of their being under Age Giving in Marriage which belongs to Us and Our Heirs according to the Law and Custom of Our Realm Nevertheless according to the Liberty of the Ports they may Marry themselves without the let or impediment of Us or Our Heirs for ever any Right to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And therefore we charge you and every of you that ye molest not or disturb the Barons and Persons aforesaid in any thing contrary to these Our Grants In witness whereof we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at St. Albans the Twenty eighth day of April in the Twenty sixth year of Our Reign We have also look'd upon some other Letters-Patents which Our said Father granted to the above-named Barons after these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To all those to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting Taking into consideration that the Navy of Our Cinque-Ports cannot be maintained without great Charge and Expences left the said Navy should fail or decay for the future We have granted for Us and Our Heirs That all the Members of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid and all other Advocants whatsoever that are willing to enjoy the Liberties of the same do contribute viz. every one according to his abilities to do Service to Us and Our Heirs with their Navy whensoever they shall be commanded by Us and Our Heirs In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at St. Albans the Twenty eigth day of April
in the Twenty sixth year of Our Reign And we Ratifying the Grants and Confirmations aforesaid do grant and confirm them to be well pleasing to Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lyeth for the Barons aforesaid of the Cinque-Ports their Heirs and Successors for their good and faithful Service which they have hitherto paid to Us and shall pay for the future as the Chatters and Letters aforesaid do reasonably testifie And We further willing to do the said Barons a greater kindness have given and granted to them for Us and Our Heirs That although they have not hitherto enjoyed any one or more of their Liberties and Priviledges contained in the said Charters and Letters yet the said Barons their Heirs and Successors may use and enjoy their Liberties and Priviledges aforesaid and every of them without the let of Us or Our Heirs or Our Officers whatsoever Witness hereunto the Reverend Fathers William Bishop of Worcester J. Bishop of Bath and Wells and W. Bishop of Exeter Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester and Hereford John de Britann Earl of Richmond Adam de Valentia Earl of Pembroke Hugh de le Spencer Robert Son of Pagan Edmund de malo Lacu Steward of Our Houshld and others Given under Our Hand at Westminster the Twenty sixth day of July in the Seventh year of Our Reign We making Good the Grants and Confirmations aforesaid do Ratifie and by the Tenour of the Presents confirm them to be well pleasing to Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lies for the aforesaid Barons of the Cinque-Ports their Heirs and Successors for the good and faithful Service hitherto paid to Us and Our Progenitors and for the future to be paid to Us and Our Heirs as the Charters and Letters aforesaid do reasonably testifie And further willing to do to the aforesaid Barons a greater kindness We have granted for Us and Our Heirs to the same Barons of the Cinque-Ports That although they or their Predecessors hitherto have not fully enjoyed any one or more of their Liberties and Acquitances contained in the Charters and Letters aforesaid yet the said Barons their Heirs and Successors may fully enjoy for ever make use of their Liberties and Acquitances aforesaid without any let or impediment of Us Our Heirs or any of Our Officers whatsoever The Witnesses hereunto are the Reverend Fathers S. Bishop of Ely Lord Chancellor J. Bishop of Bath and Wells Our Treasurer Lionel Duke of Clarence John Duke of Lancaster Edmund Earl of Kent Our most dear Sons Edward de le Spencer Guydo Brian John Atley Steward of Our Houshold and others Given under Our Hand at Westminster the First day of July in the Thirty eighth Year of Our Reign We have also look'd upon the Letters-Patents of the same Our Grandfather after these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To all those to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting We have look'd upon Our Charter of Confirmation which We lately made to the Barons of Our Cinque-Ports under the Seal which We then used after these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To all those to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting We have look'd upon Our Charter of Confirmation which we lately made under the Seal which We then used to the Barons of Our Cinque-Ports after these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To all those to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting We have look'd upon the Letters-Patents which the Lord Edward of famous Memory late King of England Our Grandfather made according to these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To all those to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting We considering that the Navy of the Cinque-Ports cannot be sustained without great Costs and Charges left the Navy for the future should fail or decay We have granted for Us and Our Heirs That all the Members of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid and other Advocants and Resiants whatsoever in the Liberties of the same do contribute viz. every of them according to their abilities for the doing the Service with their Ships to Us and Our Heirs whenever by Us or Our Heirs they shall be commanded thereunto In Witness whereof we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at St. Albans the 28 day of April in the 26 Year of Our Reign And we Ratifying the Grant aforesaid do grant and confirm it to be well pleasing to Us and Our Heirs as the aforesaid Letters do reasonably testifie And because about those general words contained in the Letters aforesaid viz. that every one contribute according to his Abilities there have risen in former times divers dissentions That the Barons of the Ports aforesaid may the more commodiously pay their aforesaid Service to Us and Our Heirs at fit times We have given and granted by the Advice of Our Prelates Earls and Barons and the Commons of Our Realm assembled together in Our present Parliament to the said Barons of the Cinque-Ports that all the Members of the said Ports and all Advocants and Resiants whatsoever in the Liberties of the same contribute to the Navy and Service aforesaid to be kept and maintained out of all their Goods and Chattels as well those that are without the Liberty of the aforesaid Cinque-Ports as within and may be compelled thereunto by the Mayors and Jurats of the Ports aforesaid and also if need be by the Constable of Our Castle of Dover The Goods of Advocants and Barons of the Cinque-Ports not to be taxed with the Goods of Foreigners And that the Goods and Chattels of the said Barons and others as well without the said Liberties as within which are taxed for the maintenance of the Navy and performing that Service be by no means taxed for Tallage and other Tributes with the Goods and Chattels of Foreigners In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Twenty fifth day of February in the First year of Our Reign And We thought fit to have a Copy of Our Charter aforesaid under the Seal which We now use to be transcrib'd according to their request In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at York the Twenty sixth day of February in the Second year of Our Reign And We Ratifying the Grants and Confirmations aforesaid as well pleasing for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lyeth do grant and confirm to the aforesaid Barons of the Cinque-Ports their Heirs and Successors the Barons of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid for their good and faithful Service to Us and Our Progenitors hitherto paid and for the future to be paid to Us and Our Heirs their Liberties as the Charters
and Letters aforesaid do reasonably testifie and as the said Barons and their Ancestors the Barons of the Ports aforesaid have hitherto lawfully used and enjoyed their Liberties and Acquitances aforesaid In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our Self at Westminster the Twenty second day of January in the First year of Our Reign And We being certified by the humble Petition of the said Barons and honest Men of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid and their Members That notwithstanding it is contained in the Magna Charta of the Liberties of England amonst other things that the Barons of the Cinque-Ports may have all their Liberties and Free-Customs yet they by reason of the ambiguity obscurity and doubtful meaning of certain Words and general Terms contained in the Charters Letters and Confirmations aforesaid have been and are at this time hindered from the enjoying of certain of their Liberties and Free-Customs as also the Priviledges and Acquitances which they were wont freely peaceably and quietly to enjoy in the Ports aforesaid and Members thereof from the time of the making the Charters Letters and Confirmations aforesaid to the impoverishing and undoing of the said Barons and Honest Men as also to the damage of the Service of Our Navy and the utter loss thereof likely to ensue We therefore greatly considering not only the premised but also the good voluntary and free Service which the aforesaid Barons and Honest Inhabitants of the Cinque-Ports and Members aforesaid have paid to Our Progenitors and especially to Us in the restoring the Rights of Our Kingdom And willing likewise to secure their Peace and Tranquility and the publick Good on this behalf and making good to them and well pleasing to Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lies all the Grants and Priviledges aforesaid as also all and every of them which are contained and specified in the Charters Letters and Confirmations aforesaid and all and every of their Liberties Priviledges Acquitances and Free-Customs which they their Ancestors and Predecessors had and used in the time of Our Progenitors and which they were wont to enjoy and possess do accept approve and ratifie them And to the forementioned Barons of the Ports and Members aforesaid and to their Heirs and Successors by the tenour of these Presents do give grant and confirm as fully plainly and entirely as if they had been word for word expressed declared and manifested in these Presents We willing moreover and granting for Us and Our Heirs aforesaid that the aforesaid Barons and their Heirs and Successors of the Ports and Members aforesaid shall have all their Liberties Acquitances Priviledges and Free-Customs restor'd to them as fully and entirely as their Ancestors and Predecessors had them in the times of St. Edmund the Confessor and William the Conqueror late Kings of England or any other of Our Progenitors more freely fully and honorably And although the said Barons and Honest Inbabitants or their Ancestors and Predecessors the Barons and Honest Inhabitants of the Ports and Members aforesaid or any of them by some emergent chance have not yet fully enjoyed or perhaps misused any one or more of the Liberties Acquitances Priviledges and Free-Customs contained in the said Charter and Letters yet the Barons and Honest Inhabitants their Heirs and Successors for the future shall fully use and enjoy the Liberties and Acquitances Priviledges and Free-Customs whatsoever so not-used or mis-used Any Interruption or Impediment whatsoever notwithstanding or any of them without any hindrance or let occasioned by Us or Our Heirs Justices Sheriffs Coroners Escheators or other Bailiffs or Officers to Us or Our Heirs whatsoever any interruption had or made in time past to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding We have also granted for Us and Our Heirs and by this Our Charter have confirmed to the Mayors Bailiffs and Jurats of every Port and Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid which were chosen in the Ports and Members aforesaid by the Commons of the same That if any Customs hitherto granted and used in the Ports and Members of them or any of them be doubtful or defective in any part or if any differences arising afresh concerning them in the same Ports and Members or in any of them where there hath not been a Remedy formerly made shall want new ordering and reforming that the said Mayors Bailiffs and Jurats of every Port and Member of the Ports and of the Members aforesaid and their Heirs and Successors with the assent of the Commons of that Port or Member of the Ports and of the Members aforesaid where this amendment defect or difficulty shall happen to be made or had May appoint a Remedy agreeable to Honesty and Reason A fit Remedy to be appointed for the common good of the Barons and Honest Men and Inhabitants of the same Port or Member of that Port as also other of Our faithful Subjects resorting thither as often as they shall see it expedient Provided that that Ordinance be profitable to Us and Our Subjects and agreeable to Reason as aforesaid And that they may Record their Liberties and Free-Customs before Us Our Justices or other Our Officers whatsoever And further that the same Barons may be encouraged for the future to pay as good Service or to their utmost ability Better to Us and Our Heirs then they paid Our forementioned Progenitors and Us in times past We have thought fit that other Liberties and Acquitances plain and express be granted anew to the same Barons and Honest Men. And moreover of Our special Grace meer Motion and certain Knowledge We have granted and by these Presents do grant for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lies to the same Barons and Honest Men of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid and to the Barons and Honest Men of all and singular the Ports Towns and Members adjoining united and pertaining to the same Cinque-Ports or any of them that they their Heirs and Successors and other Resiants whatsoever within the Ports and Members aforesaid or within any of the same contributing to the Service and Navy aforesaid be for ever quit from Toll Panage Bridg-toll Wharfage Murage Passage Lastage Stallage Tallage Carriage Weight-toll Picage Land-tax Scot and Gild Hidage Escuage and also from the Suits of County and Hundred and Tributes of Hundreds from the View of Free-Pledges and the Pence belonging to the View of Free-Pledges as also from whatsoever Summons Returns or Payments to be paid to Us Our Heirs or Our Successors for any of the Premises aforesaid And from Fines for Murder and common Amercement whensoever it happen that a County or Town before Us or Our Heirs or before Us or whatsoever Our Justices Officers or Ministers belonging to Us Our Heirs and Successors fall into the hands of Us or Our Heirs and from all such like Custom throughout Our whole Realm and Dominions And We have also granted to the aforesaid Barons and Honest Men their Heirs
and Successors That for ever they may have all Goods and Chattels Waviated or which are seized by Waife and also all Goods and Chattels which are counted Stray as also any Treasure which is or shall be found within the Ports aforesaid or any Member of the same And the Goods and Chattels which are said to be made by the hand that are taken or shall be took with any Person wheresoever within the Ports and Members aforesaid being before any Judge whatsoever disavowed by the same person And that the said Barons and Honest Men their Heirs and Successors the Barons and Honest Men of the Ports and Members aforâ—said shall have the Chattels of whatsoever Felons condemned or convicted or hereafter to be condemned or convicted And the Goods forfeited for the escape of Felons and Fines whatsoever for the same Escapes in whatsoever Courts belonging to Us or Our Heirs and Successors they be Assessed or hereafter shall be Assessed before Us or Our Heirs or or the Justices and Judges belonging to Us or Our Heirs whatsoever And also the Chattels of all other Persons which are or shall be demanded in a Writ Exigent for Appearance or for Felony And also the Chattels of those which are Outlawed and Waviated or shall be Outlawed or Waviated And the Chattels by what means soever confiscated and of all and singular the Barons and other Resiants whatsoever within the Ports and Members aforesaid wheresoever these Goods and Chattels shall happen to be found within the Ports and Members aforesaid or without them in the Counties of Kent and Sussex or either of them although the Officers and Servants of Us or Our Heirs or any one of them be there present And that the said Barons and Honest Men and their Successors shall for ever have the Wreck of the Sea at whatsoever Coasts and Arms of the Sea in the Ports and Members aforesaid adjacent it shall happen to be cast and all and singular the things which belong and appertain to ever such Wreck And that they their Heirs and Successors shall either in their own Persons or by their Servants take and seize upon for their own use such Chattels which are counted Waif or Strey any Treasure found Chattels which are said to be made by the hand Chattels of Felons by whatsoever means condemned or to be condemned convicted or to be convicted the Chattels of all persons whatsoever which are or shall be demanded in a Writ Exigent for Appearance or for Felony the Chattels of those which are or shall be Outlawed and which are or shall be Waifed and Chattels by what means soever confiscated and the Wreck with all things belonging to such Wreck without the trouble molestation or impediment of Us or Our Heirs the Justices Escheators Sheriffs Coroners or other Bailiffs belonging to Us or Our Heirs or any others whatsoever although they were seized heretofore by Us or Our Heirs or some of the Bailiffs Officers and Servants to Us and Our Heirs We have also granted for Us and Our Heirs to the aforesaid Barons and Honest Men their Heirs and Successors for the better maintaining of the Navy and Service aforesaid That every Mayor and Jurat in every Port and Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid where there is a Mayor and Jurats and every Bailiff and Jurat in every Port and Member of the same Ports and Members where such Bailiff is chosen by he Commons of the Inhabitants of that Port or Member of the Ports or of the Members aforesaid And also the Jurats in every Port and Member of the aforesaid Ports and Members where neither the Mayor nor Bailiff is chosen by the Commons of the Inhabitants of that Port or Member and their Successors shall for ever receive all and all manner of Fines for Trespasses Offences Misprisions Wrongs Negligences Ignorances Conspiracies Concealments Regraters Forestallers Maintenances Bribes Champarties Counterfeitings Cheats Contempts and all other defaults whatsoever As also the Fines for a Licence of Agreements and all Amercements Redemptions Exits and Penalties which are or shall be forfeited a year and a day Waste and Strip and all that which should belong to Us and Our Heirs from such a year and a day Wast and Strip of all and singular the Barons and other Resiants aforesaid their Heirs and Successors as well within the Ports and Members aforesaid as without And the said Barons and other such like Resiants in all the Courts whatsoever belonging to Us and Our Heirs shall Impose Fines Assess Exits and make Forfeiture for Penalties Adjudge a year and a day Wast and Strip and such like Forfeitures Which Fines and Amercements Redemptions Exits Penalties a year and a day Wast and Strip Forfeitures shall belong to Us and Our Heirs unless they have been granted to the aforesaid Barons and Honest Men and their Successors So that the said Mayors and Jurats and also the Jurats in every Port and Member of the Ports and Members before-nam'd elected as it is aforesaid shall in their own Person or by their Servants levy take and receive such Fines Amercements Redemptions Exits Penalties and Forfeitures and all other things which should belong to Us Our Heirs and Successors for a year and a day waste strip and the Forfeitures aforsaid for the common profit and use of the said Barons their Heirs and Successors without the impediment of Us or Our Heirs Justices Bailiffs or other Our Officers whatsoever And that the said Barons and Honest Men their Heirs and Successors may have as it shall seem good to them within every Port and Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid a Pillory for Thieves and a Cucking-stooll for the punishment of Offenders there And also that they and their Successors may for ever have Leets and law-Law-days with all the Profits which way soever belonging or appertaining thereunto from any Resiants whosoever within the Liberty aforesaid And that the aforesaid Barons and Honest Men and their Heirs and Successors from henceforward and every of them may have whatever they find upon Land and Sea freely peaceably and quietly without any impediment or disturbance by Us or Our Heirs or by the Constables to Us or Our Heirs of Our Castle of Dover or by the Admiral of the Cinque-Ports or Admiral within the Ports and Members aforesaid without any division of it to be made or any part of it to be rendred to Us or Our Heirs or any other And we have further granted for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lieth to the aforesaid Barons and Honest Men and to their Heirs and Successors Liberty to Erect Gallowes within every Port and Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid And to give Judgment upon all Offenders who shall happen to be taken and apprehended there according to the above-mentioned Priviledge of Infangtheff and Utfangtheff and according to the custom antiently used in the Ports and Members aforesaid without the lett questioning or impediment of Us or Our Heirs Justices Coroners
Escheators Sheriffs or other Our Bayliffs and Officers whosoever And that the said Mayor and Jurats Bayliffs and Jurats and also the Jurats in every Port and Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid as they are before limited may and shall from henceforth have and hold before the fame Mayor and Jurats Bailiff and Jurats and also Jurats by a Complaint before them to be relieved in the Court of any Port or Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid in any place days or times most conveniently to be held according to custom within any such Port or Member all and all sorts of Pleas of and concerning all sorts of Actions real personal and mixt happening by Sea or Land within any such Port or Member And that they may attach those Persons and commit their Bodies to Prison against whom such Personal Actions shall happen to be sued or prosecuted and be Oyers and Terminers of all and every the aforesaid Pleas and give Judgment upon Process and Executions to be done according to the custom of the Ports aforesaid so that neither the Constable to Us or Our Heirs of the Castle of Dover aforesaid nor the Warden of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid nor the Admiral of the fame nor any Vice-gerent nor Deputy appointed by him shall about or concerning any such Plea within the Ports and Members aforesaid or about any other Business or Matter that is or happens or shall be or happen by Land or Sea by Fresh Water or bounds and banks of the deep Sea in any wise come within the limits and liberties of the same Ports and Members or enter into such Port or Member upon such an account in any wise whatsoever unless in default of the Mayor Bailiff and Jurats not administring Justice And if such default shall chance to be then We Will that only the aforesaid Warden of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid for the time being either by Word of Mouth or Petition to be made by the party which shall perceive himself to be wronged enter into the said Port or Member from time to time and cause the Plea touching this defect to come before him within the same Port and Member in the presence of such Mayor Bailiff and Jurats and there examine the Plea aforesaid and correct and amend such default if there be any and there administer with speed full and compleat Justice to all and every of them who have any occasion to be there present according to law and custom And that the Mayor and Jurats Bailiff and Jurats and the Jurats aforesaid o every Port and Member of the Ports and Members aforesaid elected in manner and form aforesaid shall for ever have the Cognizance as well of all sorts of Pleas in the actions above-named as of all sorts of Pleas belonging to the Crown any way happening within every such Ports or Members And the Power of hearing and determining all pleas belonging to the Crown of Us or Our Heirs as well at the Suit of Us and Our Heirs as at the Suit of other Plaintiffs the Pleas of all sorts of Treasons only excepted which We Will for Us and Our Heirs as much as in Us lieth to be heard and determined before the Warden for the time being of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid the Mayors Bailiffs and Jurats of the same Ports being summoned according to the custom used in the same Ports at Shepey according to the Law and Custom of the Court aforesaid And that every such Mayor and Jurats Bailiff and Jurats as also the Jurats as above limited may at their Election have and hold all and singular the Pleas abovenamed excepting those which are afore excepted before them within every such Port and Member in the Court of the same Port or Member and may hear and determine all such Pleas and execute Judgments given upon them according to the Law and Custom of Our Kingdom of England or Custom of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid And further that none of the aforesaid Barons Honest Men or their Heirs and Successors or Resiants aforesaid for the future shall be taken Arrested or Attach'd by any Warrants Precepts or Commandment of the Constable of the Castle aforesaid or of the Warden of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid or Admiral within the Ports and Members aforesaid to answer upon any such Plea or be bound in any wise to appear upon the same Cause before the same Constable Warden or Admiral or his Vice-gerent or Deputy unless upon default of not administring Justice as aforesaid And that none of the Barons Honest Men or their Heirs or such like Resiants shall for the future be in any wise Pressed Attach't or Arrested by any of the Officers and Ministers of Us or Our Heirs to or for the Service of Us or Our Heirs to be performed upon the Sea except for the Service of the said Barons to be paid to Us and Our Heirs with their Navy as aforesaid We have further granted to the above-named Barons and Honest Men that they their Heirs and Successors and other Resiants whosoever of their Heirs and Successors within the Ports and Members aforesaid who do now or shall hereafter contribute to the Service and Navy aforesaid be for ever free from all Aids Subsidies They shall be free from all Subsidies c. Contributions Tallage and all other how many soever which if the grant aforesaid made to them had not been should or might have been exacted of them or of any of them by Us or Our Heirs by the Bailiffs or Officers of Us or Our Heirs upon the account of their Lands Tenements and Incomes or their Goods and Chattels or any thing belonging to them which they now have and from henceforth are to possess And that whensoever the Commons of the Counties of Our Kingdom of England or the Citizens and Burgesses of the Cities and Burroughs of the said Counties have any way granted to Us Our Heirs or Successors the Tenth Fifteenth or any other Sum or Tax whatsoever of their Goods moveable or Lands Tenements or other of their Incoms Or that We or Our Heirs have caused Our Tenths to be be levied throughout England the said Barons their Heirs and Successors and the Ports and Members aforesaid the Lands Tenements and Goods and Chattels of the Barons their Heirs and Successors and of other Resiants aforesaid or of any of them whether they be within the Liberties of the said Ports and Members or without in the Counties of Kent and Sussex Within or without in the Counties of Kent and Sussex they shall not be Taxed shall not be Taxed for the Use of Us or Our Heirs Nor shall any thing in any wise be levied upon them sor Tenths Fifteenths and other Tributes or Tallages aforesaid for the Use of Us or Our Heirs Nor shall the said Barons their Heirs or Successors or other Resiants aforesaid be distreined molested or disturbed upon these accounts in any thing concerning their Lands Tenements or their Goods aforesaid but that they their Heirs
of Folkstone and to the Baron of the Town of Feversham and to the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Feversham and to the Baron of the Town of Fordwich and to the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Fordwich and to the Baron of the Town and Hundred of Tenterden and to the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Hundred of Tenterden by whatsoever Names or Name or by whatsoever incorporations or incorporation or pretence of incorporation hitherto they have been or now and for the future shall be known called or named And We Warranting to them and making them well-liking to Us Our Heirs and Successors as much as in Us lieth all and singular their Liberties Priviledes Franchises Customs Freedoms Acquitances Exemptions Jurisdictions Fairs Markets Marts Toll Stallage Piccage Custom Easments Fines Amercements and other Profits and Hereditaments contained and specified in the said Letters Patents or in any one or more of them by these Presents in no wise to be recalled diminished or changed do Ratifie Approve Accept of and Confirm them by these Presents as they have hitherto reasonably used them And further of Our more free and special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion We have given granted and confirmed and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do give grant and confirm to the aforenamed Barons of the Cinque-Ports and the Antient Towns aforesaid and of the Members of the same Ports and Towns and their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Hasting in the County of Sussex and to their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of New-Romney in the County of Kent and to their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Heeth in the County of Kent and to their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Dover in the County of Kent and to their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Sandwich in the County of Kent and to their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Antient Town of Rye in the County of Sussex and their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Antient Town of Winchelsea in the County of Sussex and their Successors and to the aforesaid Bayliff Jurats and Commons of the Town and Priviledged Monastery of Pevensey in the County of Sussex and their Successors and to the aforesaid Bayliff Jurats and Commons of the Town of Seaford in the County of Sussex and their Successors and to the aforesaid Bayliff Jurats and Commons of the Town of Lydd in the County of Kent and their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Folkstone in the County of Kent and their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Feversham in the County of Kent and their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Fordwich in the County of Kent and their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Hundred of Tenterden in the County of Kent and their Successors respectively That every Mayor and Jurat of every respective Port of the Cinque-Ports aforesaid and their Successors respectively within every Port aforesaid for every Port aforesaid and for all other Places or Towns whatsoever or any other Place and Town whatsoever belonging to any Port aforesaid or being a Member of any Port aforesaid which have not within their selves or self a Mayor or Bayliff elected by the Commons of those places or place Towns or Town And also that every Mayor and Jurat of every of the Antient Towns aforesaid and their Successors respectively and every Mayor of the aforesaid Town of Feversham and their Successors respectively and every Mayor and Jurat of every of the other Members of the Ports and Antient Towns aforesaid where there is a Mayor and Jurats and their Successors respectively within every Antient Town and within the aforesaid Town of Feversham and within every other Member of the Ports and Antient Towns aforesaid for every of the Antient Towns aforesaid and for the aforesaid Town of Feversham and for every other Member aforesaid respectively and every Bayliff and Jurat and every Bayliff where there is no Jurat of every Member of the Ports aforesaid where such Bayliff is chosen by the Commons of the same Member and their Successors respectively within every other Member of the Ports aforesaid for every such Member as above severally and respectively limited may for the future for ever have and hold and have power to have and to hold before the same Mayor and Jurats and Mayor and Bayliff and Jurats and Bayliff respectively within every such Port of the Cinque-Ports Antient Towns and Members aforesaid at some most convenient place days and accustomed times there respectively one Court of Record And that the same Mayors and Jurats and Mayors Bayliffs and Jurats and Bayliffs and their Successors respectively may and shall have in every Court of the said Courts severally and respectively more fully and freely than they formerly had in the same full Power and Authority by these Presents of hearing and determining in the several Courts aforesaid respectively by some grievance in the same to be considered and of holding all and singular the Suits of and concerning all and all manner of Debts Accounts Covenants Contracts Misdemeanors by Force and Arms or otherwise done in contempt of Us Our Heirs and Successors detaining of Goods Contempts Cheatings Writs of Withernam and of and concerning all and all manner of other Actions All Actions Personal and mixt Real Personal and Mixt whatsoever Suits of Assize of Fresh Disseisin or of the Death of an Ancestor or of Redisseisin within every such Port and Bounds Limits and Precincts of the same Port or any other places or place Towns or Town appertaining or belonging to any Port aforesaid or being a Member of any such Port or Ports where neither Mayor nor Bayliff is elected respectively and within every Antient Town aforesaid and within the aforesaid Town of Feversham and within every other Member aforesaid and the Bounds Limits and Precincts of every such Antient Towns and of the Town of Feversham aforesaid and other Suits which any way happen or shall happen chance or shall chance to be within any other Members aforesaid respectively And that the same Mayors and Jurats and Mayors and Bayliffs and Jurats and Jurats and Bayliffs and their Successors respectively may upon all such Pleas Actions Complaints of Assize of fresh Disseisin or of the Death of an Ancestor or of Redisseisin in the said Courts or any of them which are or shall be moved or redressed have Power Authority and License to bring and force the Person or Persons against whom any such Pleas
Member of the Ports aforesaid where such Bayliff is chosen by the Commons of the said Member respectively may in and upon themselves and any other Inhabitants and Resiants whatsoever within every such Member Bounds Limits and Precincts of the same and in and upon all and singular the Land-rents and Inheritances whatsoever within every such Member and the Bounds Limits and Precincts belonging to every such Member respectively as also they may in and upon all and singular the Goods Chattels and Merchandises of all and singular the Inhabitants whether Possessors or Tenants of any such Lands or Inheritances whatsoever within every such Member and the Bounds Limits and Precincts of the same respectively set assess and lay from time to time as often as it shall seem necessary to them the Reasonable and Ratable Taxes of Scot Shot and Lot Tallage and the Reasonable Taxes commonly called Common Fines Common Fines Imposts and Sums of Money to be paid within certain times or time to that purpose by them respectively limited and appointed and by the same to be taken and levied upon the Inhabitants and Resiants aforesaid or upon their Goods Chattels and Merchandises Land-rents Tenements and Inheritances aforesaid respectively by the distraint and sale of the same By the sale or the imprisonment of the Bodies of the Persons aforesaid and every of them upon whom such Taxes of Scot Lot Shot As by the imprisonment of their Bodies Tallage Taxes called Common Fines Imposts and Sums of Money as is abovementioned may or shall be put laid or assessed Or which otherwise may be prosecuted by an Action or Actions of Debt in any Court of Record of the aforesaid Cinque-Ports or Antient Towns aforesaid or Members of the same against any such Person or Persons respectively Or may be recovered and obtained by any other legal proceeding whatsoever as it shall seem best to them and may be had held and enjoyed without any impediment of Us Our Heirs or Successors Justices or of any other the Ministers of Us Our Heirs or Successors whatsoever and all and singular the Premises aforesaid by these Presents above granted or confirmed or mentioned to be hereafter granted and confirmed to the aforesaid Barons of the Cinque-Ports and Antient Towns and Members of the same Ports and Towns and to their Successors and to the aforesaid Mayor Jurats and Commons Bayliff Jurats and Commons and Bayliff and Commons of the same Cinque-Ports Antient Towns and Members of the same and to their Successors respectively for ever For the payment and performance of so many so great the same and such like Feofarms Services Rents Sums of Tribute-pence and demands whatsoever to Us Our Heirs and Successors as many as great such and which as are or heretofore were due accustomed and payable to Us or Our Predecessors Wherefore We Will and by these Presents firmly enjoyning do Command for Us Our Heirs and Successors That the aforesaid Barons of the Cinque-Ports and Antient Towns and Members of the same and their Successors and every of them and their Successors As also that the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Hasting aforesaid and their Successors as also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of New-Romney aforesaid and their Successors as also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Heeth aforesaid and their Successors as also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Dover aforesaid and their Successors and also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Port of Sandwich aforesaid and their Successors and also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Antient Town of Rye and their Successors and also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Antient Town of Winchelsea and their Successors and also the Bayliff Jurats and Commons of the Town and Priviledged Monastery of Pevensey aforesaid and their Successors and also the Bayliff Jurats and Commons of the Town of Seaford aforesaid and their Successors as also the Bayliff Jurats and Commons of the Town of Lydd aforesaid and their Successors and also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Folkstone aforesaid and their Successors and also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Feversham aforesaid and their Successors and also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town of Fordwich aforesaid and their Successors and also the Mayor Jurats and Commons of the Town and Hundred of Tenterden aforesaid and their Successors and every of them and their Successors respectively have hold use and enjoy and may for ever have hold use and enjoy all and singular the Liberties Authorities Jurisdictions Eranchises Acquitances Lands Tents Fairs Marts Markets freedom from Toll and Tribute Custom and Priviledges aforesaid according to the Form and Tenor of these Our Letters Patents and other Grants made to them without any Action or impediment of Us Without the impediment Our Heirs or Successors Justices Sheriffs Escheators or other Bayliffs or Ministers of Us Our Heirs and Successors whatsoever Nor Will We that they or their Successors or any of them by reason of their Liberties or Immunities aforesaid We will not be prosecuted molested vexed or grieved accused or be in any thing troubled by any Action of Us or Our Heirs Justices Sheriffs Escheators or other Bayliffs or Ministers of Us Our Heirs or Successors whosoever We will and by these Presents Command and Charge as well Our Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of Our Exchequer at Westminster and the other Justices of Us Our Heirs and Successors as Our Attorney and Sollicitor General for the time being Attorney and Sollicitor to the King and every of them and all other Our Officers and Ministers whosoever That neither they nor any of them shall prosecute or continue or cause or make to be prosecuted or continued any Writ or Summons of Quo Warranto Quo Warranto or any other Writ or Writs or Process whatsoever in Our Name against them or any of them for any Reasons Accounts Matters Claims or Offences aforesaid or against any one or more of them respectively for any such things which were due claimed attempted used had or usurped in the time of the late Rebellion and Revolting from the King or at any other time before the making of these Presents We will We Willing also that they or their Successors or any of them be in no wise hindred or molested or be compelled to answer for any such thing or things by any of the Justices Officers or Ministers of Us Our Heirs or Successors in or for any due use claim or abuse of any of the Liberties Franchises or Jurisdictions aforesaid in the time of the Rebellion and Revolting aforesaid or at any other time before the day of the making of these Our Letters Patents Provided always and Our Royal intent is That these Our Letters Patents or any thing therein contained be not in any wise prejudicial to the Warden or Keeper
late Queen about the Grants to the Barons of the said Cinque-Ports and Towns of Rye and Winchelsea and Members of the same Ports and Towns and every of them and to their Successors the Barons of the said Cinque-Ports Towns and Members made after these words Elizabeth by the Grace of God We have look'd upon the Charters of Eliz. about Fifteenths Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of Our Exchequer for the time being and to all other the Officers Ministers and Subjects of Us Our Heirs and Successors for the time being or which hereafter shall be to whom it shall or may appertain and to every of them Greeting Whereas it appeareth unto Us by one Record remaining in Our Exchequer amongst the Records of the Term of Easter in the Sixth year of the Reign of Our most Dear Grandfather King Henry the Seventh That John Convers of Winchelsea and William Warwyn of Dover Combons of the five Ports did come before the Barons of the same Exchequer the Seventh day of May in that same Term of Easter in their proper Persons and did exhibite to the said Court there a certain Letter of Attorney Sealed with the Common Seal of the Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons of the five Ports and directed to the Treasurer and Barons of the same Exchequer the Tenor whereof followeth in these words To the Right Mighty and Noble Lord John Dynham Knt. Lord Dynham High Treasurer of England and to the full Honourable the Barons of our Sovereign Lord the Kings Exchequer at Westminster that now be We the Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons of the Towns and Ports of Hasting Winchelsea Rye Romney Heth Dover and Sandwich at our Brotheryield-General at the said Town and Port of Romney the day of the Date hereof Holden Assembled that is to say William Nepsham Bayliff of Hasting Richard Martham Mayor of Winchelsea John Cheeseman Mayor of Rye John Cheynew Jurate of Romney Thomas Walton Jurate of Heth Edward Hextal Mayor of Dover and Thomas Aldy Mayor of Sandwich which send due Recommendations in all humblewise as appertaineth And whereas it hath pleased our Sovereign Lord by the Advice of his Council is Agreed that the Sustentation-Subsidy and maintenance of our Navy to do our old Service to our Sovereign Lord the King and to his Heirs Kings of England That at every whole Fifteenth and Tenth hereafter by the Commons of this His Realm to Him and to His Heirs to be granted the Collectors of the same and every of them within the Counties of Kent and Sussex from thenceforth shall have deduction in their Accompts betwixt them by the Certificate of the said Barons so that they exceed not the Sum of Five hundred Pounds Sterling for the Allowance of all Resiants and Advocants of their Allowance of all such Fifteens as from thenceforth shall be granted to our said Sovereign Lord the King and to His Heirs Kings of England and from thenceforth to be gathered and that his Highness willeth in that behalf that we nor our Heirs shall not in any wise exceed the Sum of Five hundred Pounds and that we should thereupon be bound by Recognizance before His said Barons in His said Exchequer at Westminster to the accomplishment of the same We the said Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons certifie by these Presents that we the day of the making hereof have given full Power and Authority to our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Brethren and Combons Mr. John Convers of the said Town of Winchelsea and William Warwyn of the said Town of Dover our true and lawful Attorneys joyntly and severally in that behalf by the Advice of Learned Councel to bind us to our said Sovereign Lord the King and to His Heirs Kings of England by Recognizance in the said Kings Exchequer before the said Barons in all due and convenient Form and Sum reasonable after the said Wisdoms and Discretions of the said High-Treasurer and the said Barons for the accomplishment of the Premises that is to say That we nor our Heirs shall not from henceforth exceed the said Sum of Five hundred Pound In Witness whereof we the said Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons the Seal of our said Brotheryield used and accustomed to thesâ— Presents have put at the saâ— Town and Port of Romney th 12th day of April in the Sixth yea of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord King Henry the Seventh Whereupon the said John Convers and William Warwyn being then present in the said Court in their proper Persons and admitted there by the Barons to be the Attorneys of the said Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons of the aforesaid Ports to execute and do in all things according to the Tenor of the said Letter And the said John and William taking upon them the same did acknowledge the same Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons to owe to Our said Grandfather One thousand Pound Sterling to be paid to Our said Grandfather in the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist then next coming And except they did perform it the said John and William in the stead and Name of the same Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons did grant that Our Grandfather should cause to be levied the said Money of the Lands and Tenements of the said Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons whereof they or any others or any other that were seized and of their Goods and Chattels to whose hand soever they should come and made that this Recognizance was under such Condition That if the Collectors of the Fifteenths and Tenths to Our said Grandfather then or to His Heirs Kings of England in the Counties of Kent and Sussex and elsewhere within this Realm of England from henceforth to be granted should not have Deductions in their Accompts to Our said Grandfather of such whole Fifteenth and Tenth to be yielded by the Certificates of the Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons or their Successors from thenceforth to be above the Sum of 500 l. And if the said Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons their Heirs and Successors by their Certificates to such Collectors in the said Counties of Kent and Sussex and elsewhere within this Realm of England of and for such whole Fifteenth and Tenth for the same Mayors Bayliffs Jurats and Barons and the Resiants and Advocants of the said Ports to be made and directed should not exceed the Sum of 500 l. at every such Fifteenth and Tenth thenceforth to be granted that then the said Recognizance should be void otherwise it should remain in his strength and effect as by the said Record remaining in the Custody of Our Remembrancer in Our Exchequer more at large appeareth And whereas further it appeareth unto Us by Letters under the Privy Seal of Our said most dear Grandfather King Henry the Seventh directed to Mr. Treasurer and the Barons of his Exchequer bearing Date at Westminster the Three and Twentieth day of June in the Ninth