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Having recited: firstly, the release (15 Feb 1687 (N.S.)) for £721/10/- by John Wightwick (of Christ Church parish, London, gentleman.) to Thomas King (of Coventry, alderman) of (a) a Spon Street messuage (occupied by John Walker, tanner) with tanyard, (b) three closes in Radford, Holy Trinity parish, Coventry (known as Brook Close, Long Close and Meadow Piece, all farmed by William Moss), (c) a Lammas close called Fidlers Corner, St. Michael's parish, Coventry (occupied by John Clement, fellmonger and Mary Burne, widow), and (d) a Cow Lane garden; secondly, that on 5 Mar 1687 (N.S.) William Mitchell (of Coventry, corvisor) enfeoffed Thomas King, for £24, with a piece of ground 31 yd. X 29 yd., being the north-eastern part of William Mitchell's croft adjoining a messuage beyond Bishop Gate which Samuel Munn inhabited; thirdly, that for £78 apiece Edward Waldron (of Alcester, Warwickshire, ironmonger) and John Catterns (of Coventry, tiler) conveyed on 10 Sep1686 to King the "Black Bear" inn on the western side of Much Park Street (occupied by Charles Millward); fourthly, that on 29 Sep 1686 for £150 Elizabeth Coling (of Coventry, widow) conveyed to Catesby Oadham (of Coventry, mercer) a messuage on the southern side of High Street which he occupied and which lay between the mercer Francis Cater's "Half Moon" inn (tenanted by Edward Rawson and Samuel Denham) to the east and a messuage occupied by Richard Higgs, doctor of physic, on the west and south; and fifthly that on 27 Jan 1687 (N.S.), for £43/10/-, Edward Waldron and William Symonds (in 1687 then or late of Coventry, worsted-weaver) enfeoffed William Sisserson (of Coventry, whittawer) with a messuage on the southern side of Gosford Street in Holy Trinity [recte St. Michael's] parish (lately occupied by Francis Birch): therefore John Wightwick, Thomas Astley (of -), William Mitchell, E. Waldron, William Symonds and Elizabeth Coling agree that they, with W. Mitchell's wife Mary, E. Waldron's wife Elizabeth and W. Symonds' wife Elizabeth, will levy this Trinity or next Michaelmas Term a final concord with King for four messuages, three stables, four gardens, four orchards, 6a. meadow and 26a. pasture in Coventry and Radford, but that he will ensure that it enures to the respective benefits of Catesby Oadham and William Sisserson as well as of himself.