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Whereby the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty, for £338. charge to William Bird (of Coventry, alderman) (a)(i) a tenement on the western side of Bishop Street (occupied by Sarah Orton, widow) with an 11-yard frontage, comprising ten bays and a shore, with a garden to the west (29 yards X 9 yards), also (ii) a close (4a. 0r. 30p.) adjoining Red Lane (occupied successively by Nicholas Smith, Joseph Pono and Sarah Orton); (b) two closes, adjoining Leicester Causeway on the eastern side, called Elliotts Field (3a.), successively occupied by Elizabeth Mors (widow), William Bennion (butcher) and now Matthew Goodall (of Coventry, alderman); and (c)(i) a messuage and dyehouse on the corner of West Orchard, containing by the street (with the building over the river lately used as houses of office) 27.5 yards, comprising nineteen bays with a three-bay "woodhouse", a garden beyond the "workhouse" (40 yards X 32 yards), successively held by the late Richard Baron, Humphrey Welton and now Samuel Welton (the premises bound William Green's land to the south, that lately Mr. Hamorne's (held by Joseph Welton) to the west; the garden bounds land lately Walter -'s but now Samuel Monk's on the north, W. Green's on the east and the Sherbourne on the south), also (ii) Childers Leyes, Radford (Lammas; the greater part 9.75a., the lesser part 4.5a.) which were once demised to Judith Murdock (of Coventry, widow) but now held by Rebecca (widow) or Jonah (alderman) Crynes (both of Coventry) with the late Thomas Lee [sic] (bounding Radford-Coundon lane to the north, Nuneaton School land south and southwest, "Pittfield" on the east, another Childers Leyes (lately tenanted by Alderman Edward Owen) southwest), together with (iii) land (formerly two closes) near Swift's Mill (bounding Whitley "Commons" on the west, a meadow which is part of the same holding on the east and city land to the south), and (iv) a meadow to the east of (ii) (2a.; bounding land lately Sir Walter Aston, knight's on the east), (iii) and (iv) having been held by Abraham Walden but now by John Love junior, butcher: reserving customary right of common in Lammas closes to the farmers, William Bird may hold the premises for repayment of £348/2/9 next 7 Jun; the principal should be used towards discharge of £217/18/3 and £247/19/4 ordered to be paid to Thomas Wright (of Coventry, mercer) by the corporation for costs incurred in Chancery in the Sir Thomas White's Charity lawsuit.
6 Dec 1711. Bond in £700 for performance.
6 Dec 1711. Receipt for £328.