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Whereby, having recited that Reverend Thomas Sheepshanks (clerk [in Holy Orders]), Thomas Banbury (esq. [shag-manufacturer]), Josiah Cash (esq. [stuffmerchant]) Richard Hands (silkdyer), James Sibley Whittem (esq. [currier], Thomas Smith (grocer), William Clark (esq. [ribbon-manufacturer]), Richard Caldicott (esq. [ribbon-manufacturer]), Harry Chetham (gentleman [liquormerchant]), William Odell (esq. [ribbon-manufacturer]), Bryan Dunn (esq. [tanner]), Samuel Vale (gentleman [solicitor]) , Abijah Hill Pears (esq. [ribbon-manufacturer]), David Spencer (mercer), Samuel Newsome (esq. [ribbon-manufacturer]), William Sargeant (esq.) [ribbon-manufacturer], Thomas Jones Newark (timbermerchant), Charles Dresser (silkman), Stephen Hammerton junior (ribbon-manufacturer) and John Rotherham (watch-manufacturer), all of Coventry, are Sir Thomas White's Charity trustees and have ordered that Joseph Fawson (of Coventry, watchmaker) and David Laxon (of Coventry, provision dealer) should each receive a £50 loan for nine years: therefore, in consideration of those sums and of 10/- paid to Joseph Fawson, the lastnamed charges to the trustees his interest upon his mother Sarah's death under his father Samuel's will in (a) a garden (formerly cultivated by Widow Burman) 31 feet north-south, 22 feet east-west in Mill Lane (between land once William "Jesson'", esq's [recte Jenson's] and lately James Kelsey's on the north, corporation land lately occupied by John Corby on the south, that once John Wightwick's but lately [the gardener] Joseph Francis' on the east and the lane on the west); and (b) two messuages built upon (a)'s garden lately inhabited by Thomas Stanton and Joseph Barnwell but now by - Timerick and - Byewater: for redemption of the two £50 sums on 28 Feb 1865 unless the two men or their personal representatives respectively pay earlier within one month of a man's leaving Coventry or dying; J. Fawson will indemnify the trustees against any claims upon the property, and will insure with the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Office for at least £100.