Ic bidde and bebeode swælc monn se thæt min lond hebbe thæt he ælce
gere agefe them higum æt Folcanstane l. ambra maltes, and vi. ambra
gruta, and iii. wega spices and ceses, and cccc. hlafa, and an
hrithr, and vi. scep.... Thæm higum et Cristes cirican of thæm londe
et Cealflocan: thæt is thonne thritig ombra alath, and threo hund
hlafa, theara bith fiftig hwitehlafa, an weg spices and ceses, an
ald hrithr, feower wedras, an suin oththe sex wedras, sex gosfuglas,
ten hennfuglas, thritig teapera, gif hit wintres deg sie, sester
fulne huniges, sester fulne butran, sester fulne saltes.

That is to say:

I ask and command, whosoever may have my land, that he every year
give to the domestics at Folkestone fifty measures of malt, and six
measures of meal, and three weys [_heavy weights_] of bacon and
cheese, and four hundred loaves, and one rother [_ox_], and six
sheep.... To the domestics at Christ's church, from the land at
Challock: that is, then, thirty vessels of ale, and three hundred
loaves, of which fifty shall be white loaves, one wey of bacon and
cheese, one old rother, four wethers, one swine or six wethers, six
goose-fowls, ten hen-fowls, thirty tapers, if it be a day in winter,
a jar full of honey, a jar full of butter, and a jar full of salt.

At pp. 152-175 of the same volume, Dr Sweet gives 1204 Kentish glosses
of a very early date. No. 268 is: "_Cardines_, hearran"; and in
several modern dialects, including Hampshire, the upright part of a
gate to which the hinges are fastened is called a _harr_.

Several years ago, M. Paul Mayer found five short sermons in a Kentish