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Having recited: firstly, that on 28 May 1765 Thomas Brockhurst [watchmaker] and John Shaw [maltster] (aldermen and surviving [Priory estate] feoffees), together with Coventry corporation, let to Mary Oram (widow) and her son John (furrier and papermaker), both of Coventry, premises (a) (a five-bay messuage, a three-bay rag-house adjoining it at the northern end, a six-bay building on the southern side of the great courtyard there (used as warehouses and a stable), a four-bay building at the western end of the court, and a two-bay stable at the western end of the courtyard near the great gates, the court whereof led to New Buildings, extending from the warehouse on the southern side to the brook on the northern, partly used as a garden) and (b) a garden enclosed within a stone wall - the whole estate being known as the Priory (successively occupied by the skinner John Gulson, Josia[h] Oram [a city warden, 1746] and then Mary and John Oram) - to be held from 10 Oct 1767 for 21 years at £20 per annum with an option of further such terms by giving three months' notice; secondly, the 24 Apr 1777 assignment (endorsed upon the 1765 lease) whereby (having rehearsed: first that, by lease and release by way of assignment for benefit of creditors dated 24-25 Feb 1775, M. and John Oram consigned their estate to Bryan Troughton and Richard Burgh (in 1777 described as of Coventry, bankers), Thomas Stevenson (in 1777 of Queen Street, Cheapside, London, warehouseman) and Joseph Twigger (in 1777 described as a gentleman [tax-collector]) and Joseph Wilcox Piercy (in 1777 bookseller and stationer), both of Coventry; second, that Judith Bird (of Wood Street, London, widow) and Edward Greathed (of Aldermanbury, London, silkman) had agreed to buy the term's residue for £250; and third, that on 3 Apr [1777] Coventry corporation had agreed to the assignment) Bryan Troughton et al assigned the premises to Judith Bird and Edward Greathed; thirdly, that, as endorsed upon the 1765 deed, on 3 Jul 1782 J. Bird and E. Greathed assigned the premises to George Owen (in 1790 described as of Coventry, silkman); fourthly, that Thomas Brockhurst and John Shaw are dead; fifthly, that M. and John Oram spent £200 on improving the premises; and sixthly, that on 6 Sep1785 the corporation agreed that George Owen should have a lease: therefore the corporation let to G. Owen "the Priory" (including the great gates) and current appurtenances, as from 10 Oct 1788 for 21 years at £20 per annum with twice-yearly inspection; there will be re-entry if the rent fall a fortnight behindhand or there be disrepair three months after notice thereof or unlicensed assignment. Endorsed: "Guilds Rental".