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Having recited that on 25 Oct [1655] William Jesson (of Coventry, esq.) entrusted Abraham Gibbons (of Coventry, gentleman) and Giles Pidgeon (of Badsey, Worcestershire, gentleman) with (a) (i) Nuthurst manor, Warwickshire, with mansion house, meadow close (6a.), Broomfield, Great Rough and Churchfield in Nuthurst (occupied by Richard Hopkins [lawyer]); (a) (ii) another Nuthurst messuage with close, an adjacent close called Impyard, Churchfield adjoining the churchyard, a close adjoining the common highway, two Upper Closes, a meadow and coppice wood (once let to Edward Trussell, esq., now to Richard Hopkins), all in Nuthurst and Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire; (a) (iii) Broad Meadow and The Moores there, occupied by William Atwood [senior]; (a) (iv) Whitacres Farm, three parcels of pasture with a small woodground which was sometime a coppice called the Fearny Hurst, Davy Meadow and two parcels by Eason Brook (all occupied by William Atwood junior), all in Nuthurst lordship in Nuthurst and Hampton parishes, with Williams' Farm, The Coppice, a close whereon Mill Farm's messuage stands, an adjacent close and a meadow beneath it (all once held by John Gibbs but now by William Hextall) in the lordship and parishes; (a) (v) a messuage, two closes called The Phelps, Calves Croft and a coppice called Kettles Graves (let to Thomas Lovett, gentleman), similarly situated; (a) (vi) 8/- per annum rentcharge belonging to the manor, payable from Lapworth, Warwickshire church [Nuthurst is near Lapworth but is an outlier of Hampton]; (b) (i) a messuage with two closes at Long Itchington, Warwickshire (successively leased to Edward Harrold and now - Wale, gentlemen); (b) (ii) four closes there (lately held by Edward Harrold) called Nether Croft, with a house thereon, another close (Lammas [i.e. common from 1 Aug to 2 Feb every year]) of three leys with a house thereon, Plucketts Close and Collingham's Close; (b) (iii) a Long Itchington cottage (inhabited by - Newman) with a barn, little close and garden (occupied by John Calcott, gentleman) adjoining a messuage (sometime the dwelling of John Harrold, gentleman) which is reputedly part of Long Itchington manor; (b) (iv) six yardlands in Long Itchington (sometime occupied by E. Harrold), whereof five are now held by the said Wale but one by - Johnson; (b) (v) a cottage with a little close there (held by John Bearne), another cottage with a barn and close (lately the dwelling of Edward Allin, later of Francis Webb), a cottage with a close (let to Philip Reade) and another cottage with lands (Robert Jeffes' habitation); (c) (i) a messuage at Southam, Warwickshire, known as the "Spread Eagle" (lately occupied by George Blundel, now by Nathaniel Arnold); (c) (ii) another Southam messuage (inhabited by Giles Hanslappe), Oldford Meadow, Coate Yard pasture, Bewlyes or Coate Close, Little Close near Hancocks Corner and a large close near Benjamin Turner's dwelling; (c) (iii) a Southam house with appurtenances occupied by Francis Horne, 2.375 yardlands in Southam common fields (occupied by F. Horne) and a windmill (lately occupied by Sir William Andrewes or his assignee, now by -); (d) Swinsell alias Swinhill alias Great Swinhill pasture at Carlton Curlieu, Leicestershire with an abutting meadow called The Swinhill next to Turlington "Moore" - altogether 80a. and occupied by the aforesaid William Jesson; (e) (i) Scotts Close (20a.), Sto[t]tisbury, Northamptonshire, lying between a pasture which W. Jesson bought from Sir John Tirrell on the east, Barn Close (occupied by Robert Pargiter, gentleman) on the west, Sulgrave common fields on the north and Old Meadow (which Robert Pargiter farms) on the south; (e) (ii) 7a. of pasture which forms part of Barn Close aforesaid, bounded by Sulgrave fields on the north, Scott's Close's hedge on the east, and extending from Scott's Close's gate along the hedge of a rickyard standing in Barn Close on the north [sic] (occupied by R. Pargiter); (f) a messuage and two closes at Hardmead, Buckinghamshire occupied by - Brampton; (g) (i) a meadow at Allesley, Warwickshire called The Moores, adjoining East End Green (occupied by Thomas Lant and William Hill); (g) (ii) a little close at Allesley called Rough Ground, adjoining (g) (i) and occupied therewith; (h) (i) the "Cock" inn, Spon End, Coventry with three homestead closes, occupied by - Narborowe, widow; (h) (ii) a messuage on the western side of Little Park Street (occupied by Abel Butler, gentleman) and another there (held by William Crofte); (h) (iii) a St. John's Bridges messuage (occupied by Samuel Pole) and another there (held by [the corvisor] William Spittle), a third (inhabited by [the butcher] William Neale) and a fourth (the habitation of John Noble); (h) (iv) a messuage with dyehouse and garden, known as Bastille House, with a little piece of ground on the backside of the town wall (occupied by Thomas Whitmey, dyer), and Bastille Orchard with another such to the south (both occupied by Jesson); (h) (v) a messuage with gatehouse on the western side of [Earl's] Mill Lane (occupied by Thomas Whitmey), another messuage at Mill Lane with an orchard (occupied by Sarah Emberson, widow) and three more messuages there held by Simon Austen; (h) (vi) a messuage on the northern side of New Street occupied by [the clothier] Edward Fairebrother; (h) (vii) [the apothecary] Thomas Pidgeon's garden on the northern side of St. Michael's Churchyard; (h) (viii) a messuage on the western side of Much Park Street occupied by Robert Kinge, another there held by John Loson and a third inhabited by Isaac Walden (gentleman); (h) (ix) a messuage on the eastern side of Little Park Street occupied by Thomas Bennett and another by Moses Higham; (h) (x) a Broadgate messuage adjoining [the mercer] Mr. [Richard] Wills' dwelling and itself occupied by the mercer Francis Colinge; and (h) (xi) Charterhouse Mill near Charterhouse Leys between the city and the Charterhouse, occupied by John Scotton and William Blackwell - all to be held for two months from that deed's date: therefore, in consideration of Jesson's marrying Frances Noell (of Coventry; widow of William Noell, esq.) he entrusts Abraham Gibbons and Giles Pidgeon with the premises at Nuthurst, Long Itchington, Southam, Carlton Curlieu, Allesley, Spon End, Burges and Little Park Street (western side) to the successive uses of himself for 99 years, the trustees during his lifetime, Frances Noell, her heirs male by him in order of seniority, his second son Thomas Jesson and his heirs male, and the settlor's right heirs; Hardmead property will be to the successive uses of W. Jesson for 99 years, F. Noell during his lifetime, herself for life, their sons and heirs male in order of seniority, and his right heirs; Stottisbury lands will be successively for W. Jesson for 99 years, F. Noell during his lifetime, her for life as jointure and his right heirs; the Bastille House estate (except Bastille Orchard) and property at Earl's Mill Lane, New Street, St. Michael's Churchyard, Much Park Street, Little Park Street (eastern side), Broadgate and Charterhouse Mill will be to the successive uses of W. Jesson for 99 years, F. Noell during his lifetime, his sons begotten upon her in order of seniority and his right heirs; whilst Bastille Orchard will be to the successive uses of W. Jesson for 99 years, F. Noell during his lifetime and his right heirs: W. Jesson may make leases for up to 21 years of such property as for the past twenty has been leased thus; he covenants with Thomas Cresheld (of Hanging Acton, Worcestershire, gentleman) and John Watson (of the "Harralds" [Heralds' (?)] Office, London, gentleman) that the lands reserved for F. Noell's jointure are worth at least £300, and that he will assure further within the first seven years of the marriage; also that, within one year of a child from the marriage being born and surviving that long, he will buy property worth £130 for the successive uses of himself for life, Thomas Cresheld and John Watson during his lifetime, the couple's heirs male in succession, their heirs female and his right heirs.