Copy of a letters patent of Elizabeth I containing a transcript of a book in the Receipt of the Exchequer, dated 4 August 11 Eliz. [1569], recording a perambulation of Gillingham as follows:
- 'The perambulacon of Gillingham fforreste and parke.'
- 'The custome of Gillingham.'
- 'The boundes of the fforeste and common, the fforreste the Kinges : the common the Queenes.'
- 'The mannors of the woode court.'
- 'The mannor of Gillingham being ancient demandes and percell of the possession of the Crowne and a longe tyme percell of the Queenes joynture of England.'
- 'A remembrance of the payment of xxs a year from Mere.'
- 'How Gillingham fforrest and parke hath past from tyme to tyme.'
- 'To showe what authoritie the bayliffe of the manner hath under the Queene in her libertie.'