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By Matthew Collyns (alderman), and Philip Addams and Thomas Dudley senior (drapers), all of Coventry, of John Barker (alderman and draper), and Godfrey Legg, John Moodye, John Rogerson, Sampson Hopkins, Thomas Love, Thomas Downes, Thomas Snell, Samuel Snell, Anthony Baker, Joseph Legg and Sampson Wheatcroft (drapers), all of Coventry, with (a) a messuage in Gosford Street, lying within the gate and on the southern side of the road (occupied by Thomas Edes, wheelwright) with garden extending to Whitefriars' wall, the messuage lying between the musician William Holt's land on the east and Ralph Boyden's on the west; (b) a messuage on the southern side of Gosford Street (inhabited by Henry Lowe, silkweaver), with garden extending to Whitefriars' wall, lying between Coventry corporation land held by the baker Francis Chambers on the west and William Wheate, esq.'s on the east; (c) two new messuages, let to John Rawson and William Smyth (shearman) on the southern side of Gosford Street outside the gate, between [the dyer] Alderman William Jesson's land occupied by William Allibon on the west and that lately Edward Dyer's where the widow Margaret Griffin has dwelt on the east; (d) two messuages on the southern side of Gosford Street, of which one was once held by [the capper] William Pywall and William Tatam and stands in or near the street, the other is inhabited by Thomas Taylor and lies in the street, together lying between corporation land (occupied by W. Pywall) east and lately [the dyer] Alderman Humphrey Smalwood's (occupied by John Cox, gentleman) west; (e) a grass pleck lately tenanted by Pywall, which lies beyond T. Tatum's garden; (f) a messuage (leased to Robert Parker, clothworker) on the northern side of Jordan Well (lately let to William Barwick), lying between land lately ... [hole in manuscript which was repaired contemporaneously but the name not fully rewritten] but now cultivated by - Lyther of [Walsgrave] on the west and the baker John Clifton's (held by Robert Parker aforesaid) on the east; (g) two messuages occupied by Pywall and by the draper John Geary and the clothworker Richard Knipe, on the southern side of Jordan Well between land lately Doctor Cotta's on the east and [the weaver] Robert Bedford's on the west; (h) three cottages on the eastern side of Mill Lane, with a tenteryard [tenters were hooks between which cloth was stretched] extending to a Freeschool estate wall (occupied by [the draper] Alderman Samuel Myles, [the weaver] John Gilbert, Thomas French and [the weaver] Richard Hix), lying between [the dyer] Thomas Potter's land occupied by John Gilbert on the south and what was lately Mercers' Company property occupied by Henry Huyt on the north; (i) a rentcharge of 40/- per annum arising from (i) a tenement on the northern side of Smithford Street (lately occupied by the shearsgrinder Edward Waye but now by Thomas Symmons; between a tenement lately [the silkman] Richard Bentley's on the east and one belonging to Holy Trinity estate on the west, with a garden lately Richard Denton's on the north), (ii) four cottages on the eastern side of Dead Lane (between a cottage lately [the mercer] Humphrey Giller's on the east and a garden once his on the west, with the town wall to the south), (iii) three cottages on the southern side of Dead Lane (between an orchard lately Richard Bentley's on the east and a cottage lately H. Giller's on the west, with the town wall to the south), (iv) a meadow near the side of Whitmore Park between corporation land and Holy Trinity's), which rent is payable biannually from its premises, all of which were lately granted to [the clothier] Edmund Brownell, successively occupied by Sampson Brownell and now John Brownell; (j) 20/- rentcharge from a tenement on the eastern side of Little Park Street (between land lately [the draper] Thomas Hill's south and that lately [the draper] John Nethermill's north), lately occupied by Thomas Robinson (of Coventry, shearman), now by [the weaver] Alexander l.apworth but granted to Thomas Ryley; (k) a stable on the eastern side of Little Park Street between John Wightwick, esq.'s land south and that lately [the vintner] William Sewall's north, itself used by Alderman Samuel Myles; (l) nine tenements together, along with a close occupied by [the tanner] Richard Murdock near them, at Spon End (bounding Spon Brook north and west, Mr. Millward's land let to Humphrey Wilson east); (m) Hill Close (occupied by John Potter) outside Bishop Street Gate near St. Nicholas' Street, lately held by the grazier Thomas Saunders (bounding Nuneaton highway on the east, [the mercer] Matthew Smith's land to the north, the Weavers' Company's to the west, and Holy Trinity's leased to [the draper] Samuel Snell and Biddle's land on the south); (n) property on the southwestern side of Well Street, beyond the gate, occupied by Alderman Samuel Myles or Thomas Village [recte Ullage?], lying between the tanner Richard Murdock's land west and that successively formerly Richard Marshall's and William Stiff's east, its garden abutting on the town ditch on the south; (o) a Hill Cross messuage (inhabited by the clothier John Smyth) with Shoulder of Mutton Close beyond Bishop Street Gate, occupied by John Smyth aforesaid and Francis Wright (the messuage bounds [the draper] Henry Kervyn's land west, the street south and east and land lately [the deceased mercer] Henry Kervin's north; the close adjoins the Coventry-Radford common way east, a lane north, Hill Mill Meadow west, and land lately [the whittawer] Edmund Biddell's occupied by F. Wright south); (p) The Stripe adjoining Red Lane End, lately farmed by [the draper] Michael Love; (q) a close at Jeffrey Woods Cross occupied by [the draper] Edward Hill, lying between [the draper] Mr. [William] Wedgwood's land which used to be Shipman Hopkins' on the south and west, corporation land let to William Pywall on the north, and the highway to the east; (r) a grove at Keresley lately used by Alderman Humphrey Smalwood, deceased; (s) Biggin Hall (tenanted by Alderman Samuel Myles) with a grove, covering 2.5 yardlands in Stoke and Whitley; (t) a tiled house, comprising seven bays and one shore, newly built at Stoke (the dwelling of the shepherd Thomas Harrold), also a cottage with two gardens and a croft, in Stoke "on the east part", with the highway to the west; (u) two closes with dovehouse, covering 0.5 yardland at Birdingbury, Warwickshire, leased to William Reeve and William Johnson (of which Dovehouse Close lies in Brooke Lane which leads to the brook; the other close is called Wood Yard and adjoins Free Street Lane, Thone Yard (belonging to John Shuckburgh, esq.) and eight leys called the Butts Leyes; (v) Hearsall Close or Hearsall Field, in two parts, sometime occupied by the butcher Thomas Newbold, now by Alderman Richard Clarke and the tailor Richard Dabson (abutting Trinity land west, Horwell Lane [today's Beechwood Avenue] east, corporation land south and Hearsall Common north); and (w) that moiety of Charterhouse Leyes which adjoins the mansion house and is occupied by Richard Clarke aforesaid but formerly severally by [the draper] Richard Barker, [the draper] Edward Burrus, [the skinner] Edward Holmes [hole], [the shearman] Richard Sherratt, John Barker and Thomas Furnes.
31 Aug 1637. Livery of seisin endorsed.
[Former reference: Drapers 11/408.]