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Whereby, having recited: firstly, that a 5 Jun 1811 vestry meeting appointed as new Holy Trinity church feoffees Richard Worcester (liquormerchant), Joseph Jenkinson (mercer), John Bradford (carpenter and joiner), John Twist (gentleman), Joseph Merry (baker), Thomas Dickenson (gentleman), Robert Warrington (woolstapler), Robert Goode (gentleman), Edward Reynolds (ironmonger), Joseph Ford (cabinet maker), John Handley (mercer), James Wall (grocer), William Dickenson (silkman), Thomas Cope (silkman), Andrew Shields (maltster) and Luke Dresser (silkman), all of Coventry; secondly that, because Thomas Dickenson had left the city and was residing at a great distance, on 7 Aug 1811 the vestry ordered that Thomas Bramwich (timber merchant) should be substituted for him; and thirdly that, because Robert Warrington and John Handley had left Coventry, on 18 Jun [1812] the vestry ordered that Thomas Pratt (grocer) and Jesemiel Smith (silkman) should substitute for them: therefore, in consideration of 10/- [not shown as a discrete sum paid to each pre-existing feoffee], John Villers (late ironmonger, cutler and toyman; now gentleman), George Eld (baker), John Jeayes (silkman), William Twycross (dyer) and John Laxon (gentleman), all of Coventry, surviving Holy Trinity feoffees, enfeoff Richard Worcester, Joseph Jenkinson, John Bradford, John Twist, Joseph Merry, Robert Goode, Edward Reynolds, Joseph Ford, James Wall, William Dickenson, Thomas Cope, Andrew Shields, Luke Dresser, Thomas Bramwich, Thomas Pratt and Jesemiel Smith with (a) CCA/2/3/233/1(a)'s Gosford Street messuages, now paid for by Thomas Edwards as [the builder] Richard Cross' administrator; (b) CCA/2/3/233/1(b)'s Little Park Street ground, successively let to Thomas Clay, Thomas George Clay and now or late John Smith Soden [surgeon]; (c) a warehouse, etc. adjacent to (b), extending to Cheylesmore manor where the property is 11 yards wide and where the boundary was once shown by two "T"s cut into the wall, successively held as has been (b); (d) CCA/2/3/233/1(c)'s Cow Lane tenement, occupied by Jonathan Downing; (e) CCA/2/3/233/1(d)'s Earl Street tenement, once occupied by Jeremiah Lowe but now by John Wale; (f) one messuage with stable, etc. at Greyfriars' Lane, formerly held by Samuel Rew, now by the late widow Mary Gatley's personal representatives; (g) two Greyfriars' Lane messuages converted from as many stables, successively in lease to John Sadler and now Joseph Waters Coldicott [ropemaker]; (h) CCA/2/3/233/1(g)'s Spon Street ground, sometime let to Alderman John Clarke; (i) CCA/2/3/233/9(i)'s messuage and buildings, the yard of which extends to the River Sherbourne, successively tenanted by Samuel Gibbons, Gerard Rawes [warehouseman] and now James Reeves [shopkeeper]; (j) CCA/2/3/233/1(h)'s 3/4 annual Spon Street fee-farm rent, the messuage formerly demised to Benjamin Beaufoy, now to Charles Lilley [silkman]; (k) CCA/2/3/233/1(i)'s Spon End tenement and Urchinfield ley, leased to - Brookes; (l) a messuage on the southern side of Gosford Street, lying between one which belonged to the late [clothier] Alderman John Ward (lately inhabited by John Cheney, now by Stephen Corbett [silkman]) on the east and one on the west (successively the gentleman Abraham Awson's, [the clothier] Alderman Edward Bibbins junior's, Thomas Scotton's and now [the grocer] John Royle's), itself successively held by Francis Soden (gentleman [barber]), Edward Bibbins junior aforesaid, William Issard (gentleman), the silkman Thomas Robinson and now John Nickson [ribbon-manufacturer], with so much of Thomas Scotton's backside as Edward Bibbins added to this one's yard and garden, namely 40 yards 6 inches from the messuage to the southern end where it is 10 feet 10 inches broad but whence it diminishes towards the house where it is 5 feet 6 inches wide, together with a brick wall which E. Bibbins built there, all which by indentures of 1-2 Dec 1795 (wherein John Cheney and Dorcas Cheney were of the first part, William Callow (of Coventry, victualler) of the second and Edward Villers [ironmonger], Lilley Smith [oilman], William Elliott [silkman], John Villers, George Eld, John Stanton [gentleman], William Grant [dyer], Thomas Goodwin [mercer], Edward Eagle [grocer], John Jeayes, Edward Hiorne [druggist], Samuel Bailye [bookseller], Moses Backhouse [shopkeeper], Samuel Payne [hatter], Nathaniel Lowe [grocer], William Twycross and John Laxon of the third qua the then Trinity feoffees) were, for £170 paid [by the feoffees] (on behalf of the Cheneys) to William Callow, sold for the church estate, to be held upon trusts defined by [CCA/2/3/233/8-9, misdated as 15-16 Apr 1785], the sum being part of the consideration money which the feoffees received from the commissioners for improvement of Smithford Street when the latter bought CCA/2/3/233/1(j) for formation of a public road from Smithford Street to the Women's Market Place; (m) CCA/2/3/233/1(k)'s Well Street tenement, rented out to Robert Goode aforesaid; (n) CCA/2/3/233/1(l)'s barn site at Cook Street, whereon now stands a messuage tenanted successively by Mary Lond and now [the dyer] Samuel Crosby's executors; (o) CCA/2/3/233/1(m)'s Cook Street tenement with backside, now occupied by the aforesaid T. Edwards as R. Cross' administrator; (p) the "Crane" inn, etc.'s £4/8/4 annual rentcharge, the property being inhabited by William Squires et al; (q) CCA/2/3/233/9(q)'s 10/- annual rentcharge from a Bishop Street tenement now inhabited by James Bowen [weaver]; (r) the 3/4 per annum rentcharge from CCA/2/3/233/1(p)'s Cross Cheaping messuage (occupied by Catherine Cherry) and Dog Lane close (let to the aforesaid Thomas Bramwich); (s) CCA/2/3/233/3(q)'s Cross Cheaping messuage, now occupied by the aforesaid Joseph Jenkinson; (t) CCA/2/3/233/3(r)'s Cross Cheaping house, now let to Joseph Jenkinson; (u) CCA/2/3/233/3(s)'s messuage on the western side of the Cross Cheaping street which leads to Broadgate, now occupied by Messieurs Dalton and Watson; (v) CCA/2/3/233/1(r)'s Lockers Moor, farmed by Moses Backhouse [chinadealer]; (w) an allotment which, adjoining (v), was awarded at the time of Foleshill's enclosure, likewise held by M. Backhouse; (x) CCA/2/3/233/1(t)'s Cross Cheaping shop, still used by Thomas Pratt; (y) CCA/2/3/233/3(v)'s Cross Cheaping tenement with cellar, now occupied by Charles Payne; (z) CCA/2/3/233/9(y)'s Derby Lane stable, now converted into a warehouse and tenanted by the aforesaid Edward Reynolds; (aa) CCA/2/3/233/9(z)'s 10/- per annum rentcharge upon the Derby Lane messuage known as the "Barley Mow", now named the "Blackamoor's Head" and let to Thomas Hayward; (ab) CCA/2/3/233/1(y)'s entry which has been merged with the cemetery; (ac) 5/- per yearly fee farm from the site of Jesus Hall with stable and outbuildings; (ad) the former vicarage's site; (ae) the 20/- yearly fee farm from the vicarage; (af) Currin's encroachment-rent; (ag) a replacement for CCA/2/3/233/1(aa)'s West Orchard tenement, inhabited by James Dowell [basketmaker]; (ah) CCA/2/3/233/7(ac)'s two Horwell closes and a meadow, successively farmed by George Newton, William Presbury and now John Dethick, now divided into four closes; (ai) CCA/2/3/233/7(ad)'s three Horwell closes, cultivated by the aforesaid William Twycross; (aj) CCA/2/3/233/3(ad)'s two Horwell closes, now occupied by the aforesaid W. Twycross; (ak) CCA/2/3/233/3(ae)'s two Horwell closes, successively used by Richard Kevett, James Swain and now the aforesaid J. Dethick; (al) CCA/2/3/233/9(ai)'s Allesley farmstead, leased successively to Thomas Ward, [the mercer] Jeremiah Wall and now [the brewer] Richard Lloyd, esq.; (am) CCA/2/3/233/9(aj)'s Allesley close and pasture, successively held by Thomas Ward, J. Wall and now Richard Lloyd; (an) Broom Fields (12a. 1r. 9p.) at Allesley, formerly farmed by John Holmes, now by R. Lloyd, which by 25-26 Mar 1811 lease and release Edward Harries (of Arscott, Shropshire, esq.) sold to the then feoffees J. Villers, G. Eld, J. Jeayes, W. Twycross and J. Laxon in exchange for CCA/2/3/233/9(ak)-(am), then occupied by the said Edward Harries; (ao) three tenements (formerly one) with a barn and two closes at Skinnards, Bell Green, let to Isaac Carpenter [weaver]; (ap) CCA/2/3/233/1(af)'s Holbrooks estate, now extending into both Foleshill and Exhall parishes in Coventry county, leased in succession to Thomas Bacon, Benjamin Backhouse and now Thomas Satchell; (aq) CCA/2/3/233/1(ag)'s 2/- annual Coundon rentcharge, the closes being successively occupied by Katherine Smith, - and now Henry Greswold Lewis, esq.; (ar) 20/- annual fee farm rent from a Broadgate messuage lately the dwelling of Stephen Hall but now of Thomas Smith [grocer]; (as) CCA/2/3/233/3(aj)'s messuage and two closes at Coundon, now occupied by Thomas Slingsby [grocer]; (at) Upper Shuckmore as at CCA/2/3/233/1(ai), now occupied by the aforesaid T. Bramwich; (au) Stoneydelph and The Stripes as at CCA/2/3/233/1(aj), now farmed by Joseph Smith [silkdyer]; (av) as CCA/2/3/233/1(ak)'s Barrs Hill Close and another, successively occupied by Thomas Shaw, Robert Warrington and now Richard Booth [appraiser]; (aw) CCA/2/3/233/7(ap)'s Brinklow estate (Stiley Edge Close is shown as Stiley Hedge Close), now occupied by Thomas Webb; (ax) a Gosford Street house lately the dwelling of Job Goode [weaver] but now leased to the said Bramwich; and (ay) two Far Gosford Street messuages let to Joseph Downes [painter]: to be held upon the same terms as those in CCA/2/3/233/1.