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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 129

"Probatio AEtatis" of William De Septvans
from the Surrenden Collection 

of the Nativity of our Lord, in the thirty-eighth, year of our said  Lord the King, at -which time the said William, son of William, enfeoffed in the said tenements one John Gower, to hold to him and his heirs for ever, for which mediety, wood, and marshes he gave fourscore marts and no more; by virtue of which feoffmentthe said John Gower has occupied the said tenements, from the said Feast of the Nativity of our Lord until now, and still occupies them, and continues to receive the profits thereof.
   "They also say that the foresaid William de Chirchehull was, as before, the procurer, deviser, and instigator, at Canterbury, to sue out of the King's hands the manor of Milton,1 in the said county of Kent, with its appurtenances, worth twenty pounds per annum, and one messuage in the city of Canterbury, worth twenty shillings per annum; and, after the return of the Inquisition de aetate probandd, the foresaid William de Chirchehull and Luke de Whetynden sued to have the said manor and messuage out of the King's hands, and in the same manner sued for ten pounds rent in Littlebourne and Welle.
   "And they say, that afterwards, at the feast of Michaelmas, in the thirty-ninth year of our said Lord the King, at the appointment of Sir Nicholas de Loveyne,2 the foresaid William, son of William, by virtue of an agreement made between the said Nicholas and the said William, son of William, enfeoffed Walter de Multon and Richard de Sugworth, capellans, and Richard Maufe, servants of the said Nicholas, in the foresaid manor of Melton and the foresaid rent in Littlebourne and Welle; by virtue of which feoffment, the said Walter, Richard, and Richard, the said manor, from the foresaid time until now, have occupied and still occupy; and the issues and profits thereof have received, to the use of the said Nicholas; and the said William, son of William, has continuously occupied and still occupies the said annual rent of ten pounds.
   "Item, they say, that William, son of William, had in the said county of Kent, the manor of Promhull, worth thirty-five pounds per annum, of the gift and feoffment of Richard de Alesle, Rector of the church of Harrietsham, being charged to John Septvans, for life, with a certain annual rent of ten pounds, and held of the Archbishop of Canterbury; and which manor he alienated to the foresaid Walter, Richard Sugworth, and Richard Maufe, to the use of the said Nicholas.
   "And they say that, after the foresaid feoffment made to the foresaid John G-ower, the said William, son of William, was continuously
   1 i e. Milton-next-Canterbury.
   2 Sir Nicholas de Lovaine was at this time Lord of the Manor of Penshurst.

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