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As per 5 Mar [1703] Holy Trinity vestry order [copy attached], by Hugh Capell (alderman [mercer]) and Simon Lucas (clothier), both of Coventry, surviving Holy Trinity feoffees, of Jonah Crynes (mercer), Robert Smith (gentleman), John "Bennit" (butcher), Thomas Wright senior (mercer), Robert Bedson (shoemaker), William Essex (fishmonger), Clement Rutter (threadmaker), Matthew "Goodale" (tallow chandler), Joseph Olds (mercer), John Viall (glover), Thomas Smith (tallow chandler), Thomas Holbeche (ironmonger), Thomas Bewley (plumber), Thomas Lowke (dyer), Thomas Warden (butcher), Thomas Charley (tallow chandler), Henry Jephcott (capper), Thomas Wright junior (butcher), John Love (butcher), Nathaniel Smith (tanner) and Benjamin Welton (pewterer), all of Coventry, Holy Trinity vestrymen, with (a) three messuages in Gosford Street occupied by the said Jonah Crynes and Thomas Bewley and by the cook Edward Loins; (b) ground in Little Park Street whereon buildings formerly stood, leased to Mrs. Elizabeth Samwell and occupied by Sir Orlando Bridgeman, baronet; (c) a Cow Lane tenement occupied by the widow Madam Elizabeth Norton or her undertenant; (d) an Earl Street tenement inhabited by Caleb Hunt; (e) a messuage with three stables and two gardens in Greyfriars' Lane, occupied by Richard Atherley [corvisor]; (f) another stable and one garden in Greyfriars' Lane let to the mercer Joseph Norton; (g) a small parcel of ground in Spon Street near Spon Gate, held by the said Joseph Olds; (h) the fee farm rent [not here detailed] from a Spon Street house occupied by Thomas Gery, esq.; (i) a tenement in Spon End and a ley in Urchin Field within Coventry county [Coundon-in-Urchenfield was the part of Coundon which lay within the 1451 - 1842 county of the city of Coventry as opposed to Warwickshire; the urchins were hedgehogs] lately leased to William Nicholas but now to the shoemaker William Langton; (j) a tenement in Smithford Street which the weaver Samuel Edwards inhabits; (k) a tenement in Well Street next to Broad Well, occupied by the widow Rebecca Crynes; (l) a barn site with backside in Cook Street, let to the aforesaid T. Bewley; (m) a Cook Street tenement and backside held by Samuel Smith; (n) the "Crane" inn [for which see CCA/2/3/203] at Bishop Street next to Bishop Gate, with Pump Close and Kervins Close, all demised to William Hopkins; (o) the Bishop Street tenement which is let to Robert Smith, gentleman; (p) the rentcharge which arises from a Cross Cheaping messuage and a Dog Lane close which are now both held by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith; (q) a Cross Cheaping messuage which is the dwelling of the widowed Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor; (r) two Cross Cheaping messuages in "the street [western side] leading to Broadgate", along with the close called Lockers Moore near Foleshill Heath but in Radford, Coventry county, all tenanted by Mr. John Billers; (s) another Cross Cheaping tenement, held by the watchmaker Benjamin Brockhurst along with two closes and a meadow at Horwell, Coventry county; (t) a Cross Cheaping shop (with two lead cisterns) lately let to Thomas Rew but now to the aforesaid pewterer Benjamin Welton; (u) a Cross Cheaping tenement with a Horwell close, held by Mrs. Joan Bott, widow; (v) a Derby Lane tenement or stable leased to the barber George Newhouse; (w) another Derby Lane messuage demised to the bookbinder George Ratton; (x) an entry and room (which is part of the "Sun" tavern, Derby Lane) used by the draper William Wright; (y) the fee farm from Jesus Hall against Holy Trinity church, the building itself being let to Thomas Armstead, gentleman; (z) the vicarage house adjacent to (y), inhabited by William Spicer; (aa) a West Orchard tenement leased to Thomas Dynes; (ab) five Horwell closes cultivated by Alderman Francis Cater [merchant]; (ac) a Horwell close lately farmed by [Vademont] Eyre [tanner] but now by John Rushton; (ad) a tenement with two closes and 48 lands at Allesley, Warwickshire occupied by Francis Blithe, gentleman; (ae) a messuage, with barns and two closes, called Skinnards and located at Bell Green, Foleshill, Coventry, let to John Green; (af) a messuage with lands at Holbrook[s], Foleshill, lately demised to Joseph Taylor but now to John Lee; (ag) the rentcharge from two Coundon closes lately [the clothier] Mr. [William] Jeliff's but now the aforesaid Robert Smith's; (ah) a tenement and two closes at Radford, Coventry lately held by Thomas Ingram but now by [the silkdyer] Thomas Lee; (ai) Upper [Shuckmore], Radford which the said Benjamin Brockhurst farms; (aj) two closes on [the city side] of Radford known as Stonydelph and The Stripes, occupied by William Neal, gentleman; (ak) Barrs Hill Close and an adjacent one, let to Mrs. Cave King and similarly situated; (al) a house with lands at Brinklow, Warwickshire lately inhabited by Robert Goodman but now by Thomas Sleymaker; and (am) the rentcharge from a Keresley, Coventry lane which itself was lately let to Richard Treen: to be held by the new feoffees, permitting Holy Trinity churchwardens to receive rents and repair the church and to use residuary moneys as a majority of vestrymen shall stipulate, which majority shall decide upon leasing; when the number of feoffees is reduced to five, the survivors should appoint a new set.