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In obedience to a Chancery decree (2 Jul 1722) (in re Humphrey [IV] Burton, plaintiff v Humphrey [III] Burton, defendant) and in consideration of 5/- paid by Josiah Russell (of the Inner Temple, London, gentleman [barrister]) to Humphrey [III] Burton (of Keresley, Coventry, gentleman) and his son Humphrey [IV], the Burtons entrust him with (a) a mansion house (formerly inhabited by Humphrey [III] Burton), Keresley; (b) three closes adjacent thereto, one of which is House Close, with associated barn, foldyard and orchard; (c) Ash Croft, adjoining the barn and House Close; (d) Great Meadow, adjoining the orchard and House Close; (e) Treemes Meadow, with its appurtenances, adjoining Great Meadow; (f) Long Meadow, adjoining the (b) close called "Neither Crabtree Field", "God's Hill" close and Great Meadow; (g) a small parcel, containing a spring, adjoining Long Meadow and Nether Crabtree Field; (h) Wood Pingle adjoining Lower Meadow; (i) Harbert's Croft adjoining (h); (j) Middle Field adjoining Harbert's Croft, Wood Pingle and Treemes Meadow; (k) God's Hill adjoining Lower Meadow and Harbert's Croft; (l) several closes called the Dagleys, adjoining God's Hill - (a)-(l) are divided from Humphrey [III] Burton's other sometime lands by a lane leading from the Coventry-Corley highway to Hall Green, Keresley - also (m) a "meese place" [messuage] with toft and garden (formerly occupied by Sarah Smith, widow); (n) a close, now divided into three, called "the Longfield" and adjacent to (m) and the highway; (o) Warner's Close; (p) Wade's Croft; (q) "the Brokes" close - (m)-(q) are divided by the Hall Green lane from other property which Humphrey [III]'s father Humphrey [II] Burton [Town Clerk, 1693 - c.1709] once had but which is now occupied by Humphrey [III], who indeed once occupied all of (a)-(q); (r) Simon's Grove, Keresley, once occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Pawlett, widow, but now by Humphrey [III] Burton; (s) "the Marshes and Heaths" closes; (t) a cottage at Stoke, Coventry, once occupied by Richard Steane but now by his widow Margaret; (u) pasture and meadow grounds called "Wheat Crofts", with a barn thereon and their tithes (formerly enjoyed by Richard Steane but now by Margaret); (v) Meadows Farm, Coundon, Warwickshire; (w) Strong's Grove, two adjacent closes and all else [pertaining to this estate in Stoke] once occupied by John Swayne but now by Robert Ward; (x) a cottage and ground occupied by "Richard [inserted:] Palmer, widow"; (y) a meadow adjoining Jeffereyes [,Coundon] and all lately occupied by Thomas Gilbert but now by his widow there; (z) the pastures called Jeffereyes, in one of which stands a barn, formerly occupied by Widow Smith but now by Widow Gilbert; (aa) a cottage and close (occupied by William Astley); (ab) an £8 annuity issuing out of Coundon tithes; (ac) a messuage with appurtenances, occupied by Richard and Henry Jackson, at Corley, Warwickshire; and (ad) all else of Humphrey [III] Burton's or his son's in Coventry or Warwickshire (excepting (i) a Cross Cheaping, Coventry messuage occupied by Matthew Goodall [chandler]; (ii) a Spon End meadow tenanted by Cleophas "Rattliffe" [farmer]; (iii) part of a close near Bishop Gate occupied by Richard Francis [maltster]; (iv) a close near Red Lane occupied by Edward Foster [butcher]; and (v) a Bayley Lane, Coventry garden adjoining John Greene's dwelling and cultivated by him): to be held by Josiah Russell so that Richard Morton (of the Inner Temple, gentleman [barrister]) might by the end of next Trinity term suffer a common recovery as demandant with Humphreys [III] and [IV] as first and second vouchees respectively, whereby the son should during his and his father's joint lives enjoy a £50 annuity from his parent, payable at the Middle Temple, London, with power of distraint if it fall a fortnight behindhand; all would be for the successive uses of Humphrey [III] for life, Humphrey [IV]and the latter's heirs, but in the Stoke land's case subject to a five-hundred year term during which, through sale or mortgage, William Grove junior (of Coventry, gentleman [attorney]) might raise £1,000 as Humphrey [III]'s daughter Catherine's portion, paying her the interest between her father's death and wedlock if she marry after he die, but the term should end if she predecease her father unmarried.