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Bargain and Sale to Make a Tenant to the Precipe
PA194/11/30
9 May 1757
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
So as to bar entail, and in consideration of 10/- paid to Thomas Parker (of the Inner Temple, London, esq. [lawyer]), Richard Hopkins (of Coventry, esq.; son and heir of the late Edward Hopkins (of Coventry, esq.) by his wife Anna Maria) sells to Thomas Parker (a) Barston manor, Warwickshire with its appurtenances formerly possessed by John Beck but lately by Elijah Clements (deceased); (b) farms in Allesley and Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, formerly occupied by John Stone, William Fisher, John Large, William Bayes and Widow Eaves, now by John Boddington, Thomas Stretton, John Large, John Wooffe, Robert Garrett, William Oughton and William Lynes; (c) an Earl Street, Coventry capital messuage, formerly inhabited by Edward Hopkins aforesaid, now by Thomas Landor Smith [silkman]; (d) a small tenement adjoining (c)'s stable yard, occupied by William Jolly; (e) Barn Close and Hop Yard near Coventry, formerly held by E. Hopkins, now by William Burbury; (f) farms near Leicester Causeway, Coventry county, formerly cultivated by William Blundell, Nicholas Poole, Widow Rider, Humphrey Orton, John Whitman, William Townesend, John Hill and William Simpson, now by John Deacon [tammyweaver: tammy was a fine worstead cloth of good quality, often with a glazed finish], William Lapworth, John Miller, John Judd, Joseph Eld [miller], John Lond [weaver] and Thomas Rose; (g) a farm at Pinley, Coventry county, called the Seven Stars, formerly let to Thomas Roberts, now to John Hodgetts; (h) Foleshill manor, Coventry county, with Foleshill Hall and its lands formerly ccupied by John Cheney, Jonathan Hewett, Thomas Bosworth [husbandman], William Moore, Edward Lee and Richard Dutton, now by William Lapworth, Thomas Jackson, - Tyrrill, George Dalton and John Deacon; (i) Shortley manor, Coventry county, with lands formerly leased to Samuel Gilbert, Widow Wright, John Fisher, John Oldham, John Roe, Abraham Owen [capper], Thomas Diston [mercer], John "Remmington" [clothier], James Hewitt, Stephen "Hanuker" and John Vaughan, now to William Burbury, Thomas "Congreeve", Widow Bartlett, Amos Roberts [worstead weaver], William Perry, John "Ganniridge" [Gammidge?], Thomas Bayes and John Steane; (j) a messuage at Oving, Buckinghamshire (inhabited by Thomas Franklyn) with Orchard Close and Well Close (both formerly occupied by Charles Palsworth, esq., later his widow Elizabeth and now Thomas Symonds); (k) Oving fields called Red Leys and a large pasture formerly in two parts as Lanquett Sladd and Curtwells Leys, all lately occupied by Richard Symonds but now by Francis Cox; (l) two meadows or grounds with a calves' hovel at Oving, held by John Symons formerly but now by John Wintlebury, known as Upper Mead and Lower Mead; (m) a large arable close at Oving known as The Pinnocks, formerly leased to Charles Palsworth, now to Thomas Symons; (n) an enclosure which C. Palsworth made in Oving which, having Whitchurch Field to the east and south, is known as Falwell Hill, successively occupied by C. Palsworth, his widow Elizabeth and now T. Symons; (o) arable land abutting on the west on Oving Lane, known as the Ten Yards, similarly successively occupied; and (p) arable in Grove Furlong in North Marston parish, Buckinghamshire, successively tenanted by C. Palsworth and his widow Elizabeth [only], known as Hithermost Land, Middle Land and Furthermost Land - (j)-(p) were the estate of the late John Harris, clerk [in Holy Orders]: to be held so that T. Parker might become tenant to the freehold in order to suffer respective common recoveries for Coventry, Warwickshire and Buckinghamshire property, hence at Richard Hopkins' expense Henry Burvill (of St. Dunstan-in-the-West parish, London, gentleman) shall prosecute a writ to each sheriff.
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