Haec indentura facta inter venerabilem in Christo patrem dominum Willielmum Dei gratia Karliolensum episcopum ex una parte, et Johannem de Dockwra armigerum ex altera parte, testatur. Quod dictus venerabiles vir, ex consensu et assensu prioris et capituli ecclesiae suae cathedralis beatae Mariae Karliolensis, dedit et concessit eidem Johanni ifficium constabularii castri sui de Rosa; Habendum et tenendum ad total vitam suam, percipiendo inde annuatim de dicto venerabili patre et successoribus episcopis Karliolensibus unum annuum redditum decum marcarum bonae monetae, ad sesta Natalis domini, Annunciationis beatae Mariae, Navitatis sancti johannis Baptistaem et sancti Michaelis archangeli, per equales portiones, et talem sustentationem pro se et uno aletto et duobus equis, qualem Johannes de Dalston quondam constabularius dicti castri in vita sua percepit de bonae memoriae domino Thoma Appleby quondam episcopo loci praedicti. Et si contingat dictum redditum decem marcarum a retro effe in parte vel in toto post aliquem terminum supradictum, vel dictam sustentationem ab eodem subtrahi, bene liceat dicto Johanni et attornatis suis in maneriis venerabilis patris de Dalston et Horncastle distringere et districtionem captam retinere, quousque de dicto annua reddito et ejus arrearagiis ac de sustentatione praedicta pleniare suerit satisfactum. Et liceat dicto Johanni per sufficientem deputum suum dictum officium constabularii in sua absentia gubernare. In cujuo rei testimonium partes praedictae partibus hujus indenturae sigilla sua alternatim appostlerunt. Datum Karli primo die Decembris anno regni regis Henrici quarti sexto
Source: Pat. 10, H4, P1, M22
Page 164: "John de Dokwra became Constable of Rose Castle on 1st December 1404 on the appointment of Bp. Strickland."
Page 211: " Patent granted to John of Dokwra bt Bp. Strickland on 1 December 1404. The indenture, recited by inspeximus on Patent Roll, 10 Henry IV, Pt.i, m.22, has been printed by Nicolson and Burn in their "History of Cumberland" Vol 1, pp271-2.
The Patent was confirmed by the Prior (Thos. de Hoton) and Convent of Carlisle on 2nd December 1404, and by the Crown on 20 November 1408 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, Henry IV, vol.iv.28)"
Source: J. Wilson "Rose Castle" (1912)
Rose Castle "1405 - John de Dokura was appointed Constable of the Castle of the Rose by Bp. William Strickland (Pat.an 10 Hen IV, Pt.i,m.22)
Source: J.F. Curwen, "The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands" Page 501
