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Apprenticeship of J.C. Smith to R.C. Maidwell, 1877. PA26/10 fol. 250.
John Kinder's son was apprenticed from Baker, Billing and Crow School, 1846. PA26/9 fol. 129.
Appointment of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire Grammar School headmaster,1627. PA44.
William Dyson of Marton, Warwickshire was lessor of land there, 1822. PA47/74/1.
Edward Page's purchase of Bowling Green, Stoke, 1799. PA101/1/276-277.
William Stevenson was an assignee for mortgaged Cross Cheaping premises, 1809. PA101/1/300-302.
William Jones of Bath was a trustee of Joseph Whiting of Foleshill under a will, 1859. PA101/1/455.
Henry Mander of Coventry was named a surgeon's executor in a draft will, 1868. PA101/1/604.
Edward Langford's Bell Green Close, etc., 1761-77. PA101/5/12-15.
Henry VIII Grammar School headmaster was a Sir Thomas White's Charity trustee, 1712. PA101/8/18.I.
Henry VIII Grammar School headmaster had Swanswell land, late eighteenth century. PA101/8/20-21.
Harry Mander was named a provision-dealer's executor, 1845. PA101/8/648.
Henry Mander junior was named a coachbuilder's executor, 1854. PA101/8/649.
Charles Turner of Leamington Spa was concerned with sale of Newbold Comyn, Warwickshire land, 1834: PA101/8/772.
Draft will of Thomas Farncond [Farncomb] of Ewhurst, Sussex, c.1853. PA101/8/808.
Thomas Soden's assignment for benefit of creditors, 1839. PA101/11/203.
Joseph Craner of Fillongley, Warwickshire was a mortgagee for land there, 1843. PA101/12/103.
Wife of Charles Jaggard of Linton, Cambridgeshire was a residuary legatee under a watch-engraver's draft will, 1882: PA101/34/2.
John Tansley of Central Parish Schools, Bedworth was appointed R.J. Wallington's executor, 1878. PA101/98.
John Penn of Coventry benefited under an additional draft to R.J. Wallington's will, 1881. PA101/98.
The late Thomas Walker's nephew had a messuage and garden near Silver Street, 1786. PA101/137/7.
Rivalry at Bablake School between F.W. Humberstone and J.I. Bates, c.1888. PA101/147/1.
W.G. Fretton's position when Bablake absorbed Katherine Bayley's School, of which he was headmaster, 1887-88: PA1201/147/18-27 passim.
Resolution that Fairfax' School's master join Bablake staff when his institution was absorbed thereby, 1887: PA101/147/39.
R.A. Tilt was trustee for a victualler's purchase of Much Park Street houses, 1816-17. PA202/8/3-4; PA202/11/5-6.
R.A. Tilt was trustee for a cordwainer's purchase of Much Park Street tenements, 1820. PA202/9/3-4.
Widow of Samuel Parker of Coleshill bought a Courthouse Green messuage, 1764. PA202/16/13.
R.A. Tilt was a Foleshill weaver's executor, 1826. PA202/16/14.
Edward Langford's interest in property at Thackley Waste, Foleshill parish, 1765. PA202/20/1.I,II.
Edward Langford's interest in Edgwick land, 1761. PA221/2/1.
Edward Langford's interest in Church Field, Foleshill land, 1757-84. PA242/4/2-13.
Walter Congreve had land at Kenilworth, 1857. PA242/11/31.
Reverend John Sleath of Rugby tenanted a bowling-green there, 1800. PA242/12/1.VII.
C.J. Houghton of Worcester witnessed a deed for Rugby property, 1876. PA242/12/9.
Mr. Jennings of Dunchurch, Warwickshire, settlement-certificate, 1675. PA295/31/1.
Reverend John Boucher of Warwick acting as a Justice of the Peace, 1843. PA295/33/93.
R.R. Bloxam of Rugby acting as a Justice of the Peace, 1833. PA295/41/83.
Edward Langford's Bell Green property, 1755. PA310/5.
E.A. Seaborne of Bablake School was involved with Coventry City Guild, 1945. PA313/130.
J.E. Short was involved with Coventry City Guild, 1952. PA313/136/2.
C.1948 notes from W.G. Fretton's late-nineteenth century "Subterranean Coventry". PA313/229/3.
Bablake School headmaster's cynical comments about new cathedral's use potentially by many non-Christians, 1947. PA313/344/5,7.
Denial by Spon Street School headmaster that his children damaged Saints Christopher and James Chapel, 1949: PA313/354/4,
Thomas Noxon was assignee of a mortgage upon Smithford Street premises, 1774. PA346/44-45.
Joseph Ault occupied West Orchard premises, 1778. PA346/47-48.
Reverend John Davis, Coleshill schoolmaster, 1802. PA353/4/1.
W.W. English of Rugby was a clergyman's mortgagee, 1889. PA353/6.
W.G.Fretton of Katherine Bayley's School, later nineteenth century,. PA368 passim.
W.W. Tyler of Holy Trinity School recommended a boy to Katherine Bayley's School trustees, 1867. PA368/13/379.
J.J. Soden of Henry VIII Grammar School examined Katherine Bayley's School, 1855. PA368/21/3,4.
Reverend Thomas James of Rugby School preached Katherine Bayley's School charity-sermon, 1787. PA368/25/2.
Samuel Gazey of Warwick took an apprentice from Katherine Bayley's School, Coventry, 1844. PA368/127/9.
A porter's son was apprenticed to William Smith of Coventry, 1845. PA368/127/11.
A weaver's son was apprenticed to Thomas Bond of Coventry, 1848. PA368/127/18.
W.G. Fretton's letter-book, 1880-92. PA374/1.
J.I. Bates' Hillfields houses, 1872. PA379.
Thomas Bassett acting as a dyer's executor, 1844-59. PA242/2/1.XXVI-XXVIII,38,44-46,48.
George Bear occupied a house behind the "William IV", Spon Street, 1864. PA115/45.
F.W. Humberstone acting as honorary secretary, Coventry Musical Society, 1876-93. PA121.
Reports of the Directors of the Poor, including schoolmaster's salary, 1855-61. PA144.
W.G. Fretton's involvement with Church of England Female Provident Society, 1877-85. PA151/2.
F.W. Humberstone was concerned with selection of heraldic achievements for Council House, 1914. PA159 passim.
Francis Marsson, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1806-42. PA180 passim.
W.G. Fretton, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1856-89. PA180 passim.
J.H.Fretton, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1842-56. PA180 passim.
Joseph Plant, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1733-73: salary-receipts, 1773. PA180/36/2-3.
Edward Barratt, headmaster, Bayley's School 1773-75: salary-receipts, 1773-75. PA180/337/3-6; PA180/38/1-2.
Richard Ireland, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1775-78: salary-receipts, 1775-78. PA180/38/3; PA180/39/1; PA180/40/1; PA180/42/2.
Edward Reynolds, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1779-88: salary-receipts, 1779-88. PA180/42/3-6; PA180/43/3-5; PA180/44/3-4; PA180/45/3-5; PA180/46/2-4; PA180/47/1-4; PA180/48/2-4; PA180/49/2-5; PA180/50/2; PA180/51/2.
Thomas Reynolds, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1788 - 1800: salary-receipts, 1788 - 1800. PA180/51/3; PA180/52/4-5; PA180/53/4; PA180/54/1-2; PA180/55/1-2; PA180/57/3; PA180/60/1-3; PA180/61/2-3; PA180/62/2-3.
Thomas Hall, headmaster, Bayley's School, 1800-06: salary-receipts, 1800-07. PA180/62/8-9; PA180/64/1-2; PA180/65/1-2; PA180/66/2-3; PA180/67/2-3; PA180/68/2-3; PA180/69/1.
John Tansley, assistant master at Bayley's School, orders to pay salary, 1842. PA180/104/13-17.
Henry Mander, headmaster of Bablake School, concern over relations with Bayley's School boys, mid nineteenth century. PA180/119/2.
B.H. Rendall of Southampton was a colliery-proprietor's daughter's marriage-trustee, 1891. PA171/18/7.
W.G. Gretton, financial papers and schoolwork, Bayley's School, 1856-88. PA919/8-14.
Essay by W.G. Fretton on discipline, 1862. PA919/42/4.
J.H. Fretton, account book for quarterly scholars, 1832-42. PA919/1/2.
Heraldic arms of Philemon Holland (floruit early seventeenth centurty) (early tweentieth century). PA492/2 fols. 40,41.
Samuel Frankland's interest in the educational provisions of Thomas Lane's will, 1657. PA9/3.
Reverend Samuel Butler, headmastrer of Shrewsbury School, 1831-34. PA14/4/50-53.
Reverend Frederick Iliffe, Shrewsbury School master, 1831. PA14/4/54.
Appointment to Guilsborough School, Northamptonshire, 1825. PA14/6/181.
Northampton Grammar School master's wish for a book, 1813. PA14/11/15.
Freeschool staff-bonds, 1758-79. PA14/11/20-27.
Reverend William Brooks, Freeschool headmaster, 1830s. PA14/11 passim.
Reverend Samuel Parih, Freeschool usher, 1830. PA14/11 passim.
Reverend S.S. Paris, Freeschool under-master, 1830s. PA14/11 passim.
Reverend Thomas Sheepshanks, Freeschool headmaster, 1834ff. PA14/11 passim.
Reverend Edward Jackson, Freeschool headmaster, c.1740-45. PA14/11/7-9.
Non-appointment of Freeschool usher, 1730s. PA14/11/7.
Reverend Thomas Edwards, Freeschool headmaster, 1771-72. PA17/34/12,13.
Reverend Joseph Heacock, Freeschool usher, 1771-72. PA17/34/14,15.
Freeschool singing-master, 171. PA17/14/16,17.
Reverend William Brooks, Freeschool headmaster, 1830s. PA17/34/18 passim.
Reverend Samuel Paris, Freeschool usher, 1830s. PA17/34/18 passim.
Reverend S.S. Paris, Freeschool under-master, 1830s. PA17/34/18 passim.
Reverend Thomas Sheepshanks, Freeschool headmasfer, 1830s. PA17/34/18 passim.
Rugby men's examination of Coventry Freeschool boys, 1834. PA17/34/18 fols. 77-82.
Joseph Ault's West Orchard house, 1778. PA17/125.
Abridgement of Samuel Frankland's 1691 will. PA16/2 fol. 37 recto.
J.E. Kinder, Allesley, also assistant overseer and parish council clerk, 1889-99. PA279/20/35; PA279/21/36-38; PA279/22/30-32; PA279/24/44; PA279/44/4373,4381,4422,4654,5031,5863,5866,7087.
Joseph Smith, Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire, ascertained Barston, Warwickshire manor's extent, 1870: PA279/44/176-178,192.
James Gutteridge, Foleshill Old Church Schools (subscription), 1871-91. PA279/30/50; PA279/44/280, 381, 447, 449, 531, 533, 671, 673, 811, 860, 920, 1002, 1007, 1175, 1487, 1490, 1791, 2091, 2435, 2441, 2882, 3166, 3426, 4003, 4259, 4646, 5181, 5186.
James Gutteridge, Foleshill Old Church Schools (tithe rentcharge), 1880 - 1905. PA279/18/91-93; PA279/19/99-102; PA279/20/43,44; PA279/21/49-51; PA279/22/40,41; PA279/23/37,38; PA279/24/46,47; PA279/25/69,70; PA279/26/73,74; PA279/27/43; PA279/44/1102, 1124, 1127, 1156, 1168, 1195, 1217, 1259, 1368, 1526, 1671, 1836, 1837, 1985, 2138, 2479, 2731, 2933, 2944, 3098, 3192, 3516, 3531, 3540, 3721, 3725, 4150, 4155, 4158, 4162, 4325, 4522, 4741, 5073, 5455, 5760, 5895, 7930.
James Gutteridge, Foleshill rate-collector, 1889. PA279/44/4069.
John Tansley had Stoney Stanton Road land, 1885. PA279/44/2712.
Walter Clark of Derby School had an interest in "Foleshill Place", Great Heath, 1885. PA279/44/2906.
Prize awarded during Henry Temple's Freeschool headmastership, 1861. PA229/1.
Josiah Forster denied participation in 1736 election riot. PA248/6/18,21,33.
Bablake School master's salary confirmed, 1570. PA244/37/5.
George Greenway at Freeschool, 1797. PA244/37/13.
Reverend Edward Jackson's litigation regarding Freeschool with Coventry corporation (with copies of deeds from mid sixteenth century), 1729-38. PA244/34-51.
Thomas Walker occupied an Earl's Mill Lane house, pre 1785. BA/A/B/15/2.
Edward Langford was a tailor's mortgagee, 1756-57. BA/A/G/26/30-33.
Thomas Aynsworth's interest in messuages at Cross Cheaping, etc., 1762. BVA/A/G/26/45.
Thomas Walker had New Buildings stables, 1776. BA/A/G/31/1.VII.
Bablake schoolmaster to receive guild moneys, 1650-60. BA/B/P/102/4; BA/B/P/300/3: BA/M/E/14/1.
Thomas Noxon occupied Little Park Street premises, late eighteenth century. BA/B/P/289/1.
Thomas Noxon was a flaxman's executor, 1770. BA/D/A/33/6.
Jacob Bright occupied a Silver Street tenement, 1791. BA/D/L/24/2(a).
Monks Kirby, Warwickshire Grammar School, 1685 - 1770. BA/D/AN/13-15.
Phineas White had a Gosford Street garden, c.1640. BA/H/H/324/6.
Bablake schoolmaster supported by fee-farm rents, 1650, BA/H/Q/A79/220B,222A.
Henry VIII Grammar School headmaster recommended a scholar to Saint John's College, Oxford[, 1664]: BA/H/Q/A79/256A.
Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, 1669. BA/H/Q/A79/270A.
Freeschool master's suspicion that a scholar had reached Oxford University corruptly, 1668. BA/H/Q/A79/279,280B.
Appointment of freeschool usher, c.1685. BA/H/Q/A79/305.
Davenport's School, 1711. BA/H/Q/A79/316/A.
Bablake master's payment-order, 1615. BA/H/Q/F8/5/9.
Thomas Noxon occupied an Earl Street messuage, 1752. PA15165/10/2.
Jeremy Arnolde had a Little Butcher Row messuage, 1607. PA1516/12/2.
J.E. Weatherill wrote a Coventry widow's will, 1857. PA436/4/14.
Thomas Aynsworth was trustee of Mary Wedgwood's marriage-settlement, 177. PA436/7/2.
Thomas Aynsworth had a Jordan Well messuage, 1778. PA436/7/3.
W.E. Parker of Brinklow, Warwickshire was trustee under a brushmaker's will, 1842. PA436/9/2.
J.I. Bates owned 66-71, Yardley Street, 1915. PA466/5/1 p.268.
J.I. Bates owned 11, Coundon Street, 1902. PA466/5/2 p.147.
Reverend J.H Roberts of Denbigh owned a Saint Nicholas' Street house and land, 1867-68. PA409/1/7,14,20.
Edward Langford was a Bulkington, Warwickshire widow's executor, 1762. PA454/1/3.
Richard Watson acted as a Bond's Hospital feoffees' summoner, 1801-23:- PA54/86/66; PA54/87/37; PA54/89/3; PA54/90/10; PA54/91/11; PA54/92/20; PA54/93/32; PA54/94/52; PA54/95/28,57; PA54/96/28; PA54/97/14,46; PAA54/98/25,48; PA54/99/51,81,91,122; PA54/100/2,16; PA54/101/34,41,49; PA54/102/39; PA54/103/9,19; PA54/104/10,12.
Henry Mander audited expenses of almsmen's feast, 1838. PA54/119/28.
Appointment of Henry VIII Grammar School second master, 1838. PA54/151.
Appointment of Henry VIII Grammar School second master, 1841. PA54/152
Thomas Sheepshanks, Henry VIII Grammar School headmaster, 1830s/40s. PA54/151/5; PA54/152/11,144; PA54/258/1; PA54/279/4.
Headmaster of Leicester Collegiate School became second master at Coventry, 1841. PA54/152/29-31.
A miller's widow married William Grant of Bedworth, pre 1783. PA54/154/11.
R.H. Tilt held New Street houses, 1806. PA54/205/5; PA54/208/5.
Philemon Holland cultivated a garden near Cook Street, early seventeenth century. PA54/216/1.
Philemon Holland held a Rood Lane tenement, early seventeenth century. PA54/221/1.
R.H. Tilt held Well Street property, 1808. PA54/228/6.
Letters about employment of subsidiary masters at Henry VIII Grammar School, c.1838-40. PA54/256-259.
Henry Reader tenanted a Spon Street messuage, 1855. PA500/8/3.
Freeschool masters agreed to leases, 1849-53. PA500/36/4; PA5090/45/5.
Walter Congreve was a silkman's son-in-law, 1869. PA500/128/3.
Signatures, 1774 - 1848, PA506/75/2-10.
Leisure-pursuits, late nineteenth century. PA506/124/1.
Old age, late nineteenth century. PA506/124/2.
"Walter the Schoolmaster", late nineteenth century. PA506/124/3.
"My School and its Schoolmasters", by W.G. Freetton, c.1888. PA506/133/1.
M.H. Bloxam of Rugby, antiquarian, 1869-88. PA506/140/15; PA506/147/27.
C.J. Heap and W. G. Fretton audited flower-show accounts, 1879. PA506/210/3.
William Freeman, drawing-master, floruit 1828. PA506/235/68.
Henry Jeayes, drawing-master, floruit 1792. PA506/235/68.
Christmas card from E.A. Seaborne, c.1946. PA515/47/4.
The retired W.G. Fretton in decline, 1890s. PA515/55/4,6,7,31; PA515/56/1-3; PA515/57/1-3; PA515/58.
M.H. Bloxam's memoir of a fellow-antiquarian, 1882. PA515/52.
Warwick & Leamington Church Schoolmastrers' Association, 1849ff. PA522.
F.W. Humberstone wrote for W.G. Fretton's "The Old Cross" magazine, 1878. PA526/39/45.
J.S. Weatherill billed parents for a pupil's books, 1844. PA526/138/5.
Letters from ex-Freeschool boy to masters about portraits, 1854. PA526/165/1,4-6,13,14.
References to Reverend William Brookes' early-nineteenth century Freeschool headmastership, 1854. PA526/165/6,7.
Henry Mander was named an auctioneer's executor, 1869-70. PA540/3/5.
Edward Langford had a Bell Green messuage and shop, 1765. PA553/4.
J.H. Frankland was a member of the Coventry Literarty & Debating Society, c.1930. PA567/8/24.
Thomas Noxon was mortgagee for Derby Lane property, 1772-81. PA563/4-7.
Thomas Band sold books to Blue Coat School,. 1841-42. PA571/17-20.
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