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Letters - patent of Henry VIII granting to John Combes senior (gentleman) and Richard Stansfelde (yeoman) for £987/5/6
PA12/2
28 Jul 1545
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
from Michelmas next, firstly, St Mary's Priory's site and a nearby parcel called "le Pole yarde", a watermill (Priory Mill ), Swanswell Pool, a stable (occupied by Simon Parker), a second stable (held by William Joyner), a third stable (tenanted by William Saunders), a stable and a vacant piece of land called "the Stable Yarde" (leased to William Jenyns), a parcel of land named "le uttercourte" with garden (let to Laurence Faune), a pond (demised to Thomas Wilcocks) and "le malthouse", "le kylnehouse", "le slaughterhouse" and "le porters lodge" (no inhabitants); also granted is a site outside the monastery (occupied by Laurence Faune) and all appurtenances to the priory except bell-lead and iron, stone, timber and glass in the church, bell-tower, cloister and chapels; secondly, all priory property in Coventry, viz. "the well yarde" (Holy Trinity parish, inhabited by John Ramridge, clerk, sixteen messuages and nine gardens in Gosford Street (Holy Trinity parish; held by Peter Typpyng, Richard Harryson, Richard Collyns, Roger Toffe, William Hadell, Robert Lebourne, Richard Agley, William Harryman and Clement Miller), twenty-three messuages with twenty gardens and two "Teynter places" in Mill Lane and "le Bastell" (Holy Trinity parish; tenanted by John Griffin, Margery Carter, Richard Whyleman, Richard Golderyng, William Cley, John Hanslowe, Sybil Blackeley, Patrick Long, Margaret Wayne, John Johnson, Alice Barrett, Martin Oryon, Roger Palmer, Alexander Robynson, William Benchbeke, Thomas Hardyng, Alice Kyng, Robert More, John Phillips, John Nicols, William Baylye, Cecily Middleton, Hugh Davy, Edward Selbye, Thomas Smythe, John Nethermyll and Thomas Smyth senior), forty-two houses and fifty-six gardens in New Street (Holy Trinity parish); leased to Thomas Botham, William Laude, Alice Hanwyke, Stephen West, Richard Raynarde, John Phelipes, John Tenwenter (?), Thomas Crony, John Parkyns, Agnes Sawell, Elizabeth Sutton, Margery Yorw [sic], Thomas Palner, Elizabeth Wilde, -, William Mells, Eleanor Wright, Anne Havell, Anne Berkeley, Henry Wilkinson, Felicity Rolleston, Richard Bageley, Margaret West, Christopher Craner, Richard Walker, Humphrey Alcrafte, John Wynppeny, Roger Malen, Joan Coke, Roger Patrike, William Smyth, Robert Loder, Agnes Pole, Thomas Fyshe and Elizabeth Kendall), three messuages and a garden in Earl Street (St Michael's parish; let to Roger Cockeson, Robert West and Richard Townsende), five cottages and a garden in Little Park Street (St Michael's parish, demised to Roger Clarke, John Edeys, Ralph Chaundeler, Elizabeth Kelsey and Simon Geffkyns), two tenements and a garden in Much Park Street (occupied by Roger Wallys and John Richards), nine messuages and nine gardens in Smithford Street (St Michael's parish, inhabited by Thomas Spencer, John Camp, Richard Wodeburn, Richard Howes, Emmote Sandby, William Keder, Richard Dawes and John Perte), four messuages in Greyfriars' Lane (St Michael's parish; held by Katherine Wall, Margaret Botham, - Saunders and Thomas Saunders), twenty-one messuages with two closes called Bell Orchard and a field called Riddings (towards Radford, Holy Trinity parish in a vicinity named "The Bocherye" and "the Priory Gatestrete"; tenanted by Robert Nounde, Simon Cotton, William More, Thomas Cramer, Henry Saunders, Thomas Sanders, Richard Sewell, John Couper, William Joyner, John Cotton, Margaret Shurley, John Lapworth, John Heuett, Katherine Tailour, John Bosworth, John Petyt, Alice Grene, John Gryffyn, Richard Mundy, John Saunders and John Stafforde); eight messuages and two gardens in Ironmonger Row (Holy Trinity parish; leased to John Bosworth, William Jakeson, Edmund Kynge, John Cropwell, ... wife .....Wodde, John Cutler, William Bawdwyn and Robert Stokes, eight messuages and a garden (Cross Cheaping, Holy Trinity parish; let to Thomas Dawes, John Shepherd, John Bexton, William Marshall, William Meryman, Thomas Cotton, Robert Seyles and William Rogers) two cottages, (St John's Bridge, Holy Trinity parish; inhabited by John Wallbanke and John Yerdeley), six messuages with two closes and a garden (Bayley Lane, St Michael's parish; demised to Richard Green, Thomas Napton, Thomas Bruer, John Moris, John Yerdeley and John Hawes), six messuages (Spon Street, St Michael's parish; tenanted by Thomas Taylor, John Kateryns, Thomas Maget, William Hereford, William Mosseley and John Raynods), two crofts ( Spon Street; held by Maurice Bedell), twenty-eight messuages with five gardens and a close (Well Street, Holy Trinity parish; leased to Richard Brecknock, John Warde, John Rowton, John Schellys, Richard Townsend, John Fraunceys, Thomas Thomson, John Baker, Elizabeth Morse, Margaret Hibcott and Christopher Wareyne), fifteen messuages and seven garden (West Orchard, Holy Trinity parish; let to Robert Knyght, John Harrys, John Hawe, Richard Pywall, Thomas Turner, Robert Dudley, Richard -, Baldwtes Doffeld, William Starkey, John Stone, William Nele, Humphrey Reynolds, William Beighton, Robert Crewe and Margery Cleydon), ten messuages with seven gardens and a close (Bishop Street, Holy Trinity parish; occupied by Grace Kennelworthe, William White, William Blower alias Blackner, Robert Whythford, John Barker, Geoffrey Pryce, William Warde, Christopher Tylling and Henry Over, ten messuages with two gardens and two closes plus three barns and a croft (St Nicholas' Street, Holy Trinity parish; inhabited by Thomas Duffeld, John Barker, Edward Cheyney, Richard Turner, William Lynsey, William Preste, William Glasyer, - Shelton, Roger Adnet, Henry Deveys, - Kenelworth and John Walland), five messuages and two gardens, (Cook Street, Holy Trinity parish; devised to John Sowerfelde, Ralph Sharpe, Nicholas Petus, Joan Whiteacre, Richard Seuell, Richard Deny and Oliver Foreste), fifteen messuages and thirty-four gardens (Palmer Lane, Holy Trinity parish; held by Thomas Barnes (clerk), John Robyns, Margery Faux, Thomas Cotton, William More, John Coxus, John Grene, John Clement, Agnes Hykes and Robert Hewett), thirteen messuages (Great Butchery, Holy Trinity parish; tenanted by Roger Adnett, John Saunders, Richard Sewell, Edward Damporte, Henry Deveys, William Porter, Thomas Gravener, John Castell, Isabell Faux, William Mores, John Clemens and Alice Green), five messuages and two gardens (Vicar Lane, St Michael's parish; held by Hugh Prowdesone, Helen Chaundeler, John Bradshaw, John Waller and William Felche), a water mill (Earl's Mill, with its woodhouse, over the Bastille, Holy Trinity parish), three tenements (Mill Lane, St Michael's parish, between "le pole" and the city wall), a small close belonging to Earl's Mill in Holy Trinity parish, a water mill (Hill Mill), "Hyll Myll medowe" (Holy Trinity parish, farmed by John Joyner), a water mill (Sexton's Mill or Whitefriars' Mill, St Michael's parish; let to John Taylande or Taylaunte), and four ex-priory gardens (Holy Trinity parish near the priory churchyard; let to Holy Trinity churchwardens, Richard Preste, Thomas Wall and another); and thirdly all Kenilworth Abbey property in Coventry, viz. two tenements inhabited by -- Crampe and Margaret --, a stable leased to William Richardson, a stable and garden used by -- Sperry, a tenement and garden held by William Atkyns, a tenement and garden demised to -- Kyrton, a small cottage occupied John Gesse, thirty-three gardens (cultivated by John Boller, John Gesse, - Fermer, Humphrey Hethe, Nicholas Taillour, Nicholas Capper, Thomas Fletcher, - Johnson, David Greffyn, Richard Dawbes, Hugh Gryffyn, - Pynnock, - Cohe (shearman), - Kyteyn, William Turnouer, Christopher Wade, John Symonds, Maurice Pawle, John Saunders, John Sparkes, William Cokefelde, David Gryffyn, John Fayrechilde, John Edes, Leonard Barbour, William Spythall, Thomas Harne, David Gryffyn, -- Rawlyns and Thomas Saunders), two tenements let to John Cole, a tenement and garden inhabited by -- Dawson, a tenement and garden leased to Thomas Bakyn, a tenement and garden held by Edmond Tornouer, a tenement and garden us by -- Crampe, a tenement demised to John Gesse, a tenement occupied by Arthur Goodriche, a tenement let to James Rogers, a tenement inhabited by John Saunders and a tenement leased to Nicholas Busshewey; reserving all rents of assize, Coventry Priory's rental is £132/5/2, Kenilworth Abbey's is £6/16s, per annum.
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