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Having recited: firstly that, by a lease and release dated 5-6 Feb 1731 (New Style), John [II] Knightley alias Wightwick (of Offchurch Bury, Warwickshire, esq.) and Edward [II] Willes (of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex, esq. [barrister]) conveyed to Sir Adolphus Oughton (of [Bishop's] Tachbrook, Warwickshire, baronet) Great Bullfield, Upper Bullfield and Quarry Close, Crow Moat Meadow and Crow Lane Meadow in trust for John Neale (then late of St. James' parish, Middlesex but then of Cherrington, Gloucestershire [now Warwickshire], esq.); secondly, that Sir Adolphus Oughton's will left his wife Dame Elizabeth Oughton (in 1742 of Sunning Hill Park, Berkshire) his residuary estate; thirdly, that, under an 8 Sep 1736 marriage-settlement (having rehearsed: first, that Ann Fletcher (of Coventry, spinster) was to wed Thomas [I] Hunt (in 1742 of Coventry, mercer); second, that Jane Fletcher (of Cheapside, London, widow) her mother was to pay Thomas [II] Fletcher (in 1742 of Cheapside, haberdasher) and John Grant (in 1742 of Breadstreet Hill, London, soapboiler) £3,000 plus £1,000 (under the daughter's late father Thomas [I] Fletcher's will's terms); and third, that Thomas [I] Hunt should upon the marriage pay a further £1,000 to Thomas [II] Fletcher and John Grant) it was ordained that £5,000 should be paid to T. [II] Fletcher and J. Grant so as to purchase freehold property, meanwhile placing the money at interest with T. [I] Hunt's consent during his lifetime and thereafter during his betrothed's, with power of sale by the trustees and further purchases with the sale-moneys; fourthly, that Jane Fletcher paid over the £4,000, as has T. [I] Hunt the £1,000, which the trustees invested in £4,398/11/6 of Old South Sea Annuities; fifthly, that £2,750 has been used since to buy property at Foleshill, Coventry under the terms of a lease and release dated 6-7 Jan 1738 (New Style); and sixthly, that T. [II] Fletcher and Grant have agreed to purchase this deed's closes from John Neale (now of Allesley, Warwickshire, esq.) for £2,000, raised through the sale of £1,764/1/2 of the annuities: therefore (in consideration of £2,000 paid to John Neale and 5/- to Dame Elizabeth Oughton, both by T. [II] Fletcher and Grant) J. Neale conveys to T. [II] Fletcher and Grant (a) Great Bullfield, Upper Bullfield and Quarry Close, altogether 44a., near Greyfriars' Muckhill within Coventry liberties, in part of the new parish of St. John Baptist (lately occupied by the chandler Richard Hall but now by the innholder Edward Terry) and (b) Crow Moat Meadow and Crow Lane Meadow, together 5a. (formerly occupied by [the innholder] William Scott, now by the silkman John Kirkman and Jonathan "Able" [Abell] (dyer), also in St. John Baptist's parish); to be held for the successive uses of T. [I] Hunt for life, T. [II] Fletcher and Grant during his lifetime to preserve contingent remainders, Anne [I] Hunt, their children as he might appoint, their children as she might appoint during her widowhood, their children generally and his heirs, allowing the Hunts to lease the land for at most 21 years; T. [II] Fletcher and Grant may sell the property (provided that they get at least £2,000 for it) and with the profits buy land elsewhere; Elizabeth Oughton covenants against encumbrance; the premises have been subject to a 20 Mar 1724 (New Style) mortgage by Neale to John Hawkins (late of Newmarket but then of Cavenham, Suffolk, esq.) for five hundred years to secure for the former a £480 annuity, but that is being assigned (on payment by T. [II] Fletcher and Grant to John Hawkins of £900 of the £2,000 as per indenture of even date herewith) to Richard Morhall (of Bucklersbury, London, merchant) in trust to attend the inheritance; they are also subject to two one-thousand year terms which by another deed of this date the Hunts and their trustees are assigning to Richard Morhall; Neale covenants for further assurance to be made within London, Westminster or ten miles of the Hunts' abode.