Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 88 1973 page 155

be not hindered from finishing their work through his default, and thus from year to year he will in each year erect and fashion entirely one walk and in the third year of his contract (posicio) he will make one walk and pulpit for the Collation in the same and the aforementioned four windows with all that concerns them and the said door of the church with its steps and all the bases, columns, traceries, windows and doors shall be well and neatly cut, carved and polished according to the plans, measurements, moulds (moldas) and drawings then agreed between them and shall be of good and choice stone, as far as possible of uniform colour and without cracks and holes. And the aforementioned Abbot and Convent shall find for the said work all the cartage, lime, iron, lead, scaffolding and hurdles and shall pay to the aforementioned Stephen between the commencement of this agreement up to the feast of St. Michael after one year has elapsed thirty pounds of good and legal money, thereafter in each year of the four following years twenty-two pounds and ten shillings in eight equal instalments and at eight dates equally distant from each other, that is to say until the payment of one hundred and twenty pounds. And the aforementioned Stephen, for the performing, holding and fulfilling well and faithfully of all and every one of these things, binds himself, his heirs, executors, his lands, houses and all his property movable and immovable to whosesoever hands		they may come, to the aforementioned Abbot and Convent and their successors. And the aforementioned Abbot and Convent in a similar manner bind themselves, their monastery, their successors and all their goods to the aforementioned Stephen and his executors. In witness of this thing the aforementioned Abbot and Convent and the aforementioned Stephen have set their common and personal seals respectively to this agreement. Given at Boxley on the day of St. Peter ad Vincula in A.D. 1373 in the 47th year of King Edward the third after the Conquest of England. Endorsed: Although mention has been made of making a certain Pulpit in the north part of the cloister mentioned below, it is not binding unless by a new agreement.' NOTE Souttune referred to at the commencement of this agreement is probably to be identified as Sutton Valence. The name Lomherst may be derived from the village of Lamberhurst, only two miles north-west of Chyngele where the quarry owned by Boxley Abbey was situated. In 1253-4 the Abbot of Boxley is known to have held property in Chingeleghe in the Hundred of Bernefelde⁴⁵(West Barnfield) which makes it fairly certain that the quarry let to Stephen Lomherst in ^{45 Arch. Cant., xii (1878), 224}
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