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Having recited that Edward Hopkins (of Coventry, esq.) is to marry Anna Maria Chamberlen (eldest daughter and heiress of Hugh Chamberlen of St. Paul's parish, Covent Garden, Middlesex, physician, by his second wife, of whom she is co-heir), therefore (in consideration of £5,000 paid by Hugh Chamberlen to Edward Hopkins towards his daughter's portion which is reckoned at £10,000, and of 10/- by H. Chamberlen and the Most Noble Katherine, Duchess of Buckinghamshire and Normanby and the Right Honourable David [Colyear], Earl of Portmore to E. Hopkins) Hopkins entrusts H. Chamberlen and the duchess and earl with (a) Barston manor, Warwickshire with [Barston Park Farm] (lately occupied by John Beck); (b) property in Allesley or Stoneleigh, Warwickshire (tenanted by William Fisher, John Large, William Bates and Widow Eaves); (c) a capital messuage in Earl Street, Coventry with a tenement adjoining its stable yard, Barne Close and Hop Yard, all occupied by Hopkins himself; (d) Coventry county property near Leicester Causeway let to William Blundell, Nicholas Poole, Widow Rider, Humphrey Orton, John Whitman, William Townesend, John Hill and William Simpson; (e) a farm at Pinley, Coventry called Seven Stars, occupied by Thomas Roberts; (f) Foleshill manor, Coventry with Foleshill Hall and farms held by - Cheney, Jonathan Hewitt, [the husbandman] Thomas Bosworth, William Moore, Edward Lee and Richard Dalton; and (g) Shortley manor, Coventry with farms leased to Daniel Gilbert, Widow Wright, John Fisher, John Oldham, John Roe, [the capper] Abraham Owen, [the mercer] Thomas Diston, [the clothier] John "Remmington", James Hewitt, Stephen Slemaker [cf. Sleanaker] and John Vaughan: to be held to the successive uses of Hopkins and his heirs until the marriage, him for life, H. Chamberlen and the nobles to preserve contingent remainders, Anna Maria during her widowhood with a £500 per annum rentcharge quarterly payable at the Inner Temple in London with distraint if it become twenty days in arrears but re-entry if thirty (declaration that the rentcharge shall, as jointure, negate any manorial claims to dower out of the Allesley property), then to the couple's heirs male by seniority and Hopkins' right heirs; Hopkins may lease any of the estate for at most 21 years; covenants for further assurance within seven years and that the estate is worth over £1,000 clear of claims.