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Whereby, having recited that Elizabeth Cater (of Coventry, widow) has a 500-year term for securing £600 plus interest in Holy Trinity and St. Michael's parishes' tithes which by letters patent were granted on 30 Jan 1565 to the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty, reserving Keresley tithes lately demised to Humphrey Burton (gentleman), the mortgage having been created (to raise £400 plus interest) on 19 Oct 1704 by the corporation with William Holbeche (of Canley, Warwickshire, yeoman) but later subjected to another £200 and has come to Elizabeth Cater, whose claim for principal and interest now amounts to £735/6/-, therefore for £735/6/- she transfers the premises to Joseph Cater (of Coventry, gentleman) and the corporation does likewise for £1,514/14/-: moreover, for those sums the corporation consigns to Joseph Cater (a) a close and croft outside New Gate (once occupied by James Birch with Charles Milward, then by Thomas Handcox and now by John Handcox); (b) a messuage (successively occupied by Elizabeth Samwell and Theophilus Barrison) on the western side of Little Park Street, having a 16-yard frontage, comprising twelve bays, with a garden 122 yards X 12 yards; (c) a messuage on the eastern side of Little Park Street (held by Samuel Smith, gentleman), having a 9-yard frontage, comprising ten bays and a shore, with a garden; (d) the "Turk's Head", Greyfriars' Lane, lately inhabited by Thomas Rew; (e) two barns of six bays and a tenteryard (37 square yards) outside Hill Street Gate on the "left" side, let to John Middleton; (f) a Hill Street close (once farmed by Alderman John Snell but now by John Gulson) adjoining Wheatley's Charity lands; (g) a messuage on the northern side of Cook Street called the "Ewe and Lamb", with garden, severally occupied by Christopher Davenport and Christopher Warner; (h) Lockyers [Lockhurst] Lane's Cowper's Fields (8a.) farmed by William Moore; (i) a thirteen-bay messuage with 8.5-yard frontage on the northern side of Cross Cheaping, extending backwards 40 yards, with tenements adjoining (formerly a gatehouse and warehouse) to the south of the main messuage's yard, fronting West Orchard and containing four bays, all once occupied by John Murcott (gentleman) but now by Edward Remington (apothecary); (j) a 2-a. close near Swift's Mill, another to its south and a 2-a. meadow to the east, all tenanted by William Cruse; (k) the Mill in the Hole (occupied by Mary Beasley, widow) with closes (5a.); (l) £3/10/- per annum fee farm from the "Bell" inn, Gosford Street, lately granted to Job Ensor, carpenter; (m) £3 per annum fee-farm from a Gosford Street messuage near the gate, lately held by Christopher Wale (dyer) but now by Francis Smith and Widow Troughton; (n) £3 per annum fee-farm from a Much Park Street messuage granted to Thomas Arne, mason; (o) £1/10/- per annum fee-farm from a messuage, leanto and garden with a piece of ground, Much Park Street, conveyed to Thomas Bellamy, worsteadweaver; (p) £2 per annum fee-farm from a Much Park Street messuage and garden successively occupied by Samuel Critchlow, Edward Griffen and now Joseph Allen, baker; (q) £3 per annum fee farm from a messuage, two gardens and an orchard at Dead Lane granted to Thomas French, clothier; (r) 50/- per annum fee farm from a Little Park Street messuage once held by Jane Morgan but now by Widow Sheldon; (s) 30/- per annum fee farm from three messuages, a leanto and three gardens in Greyfriars' Lane, granted to Joseph Barker, silkweaver; (t) £3 per annum fee farm from a messuage and garden, Earl Street, once occupied by Bridget Chambers but now by the apothecary Benjamin Rogers' widow; (u) £4 per annum fee farm from a messuage, shore, garden and yard at Fleet Street granted to Samuel Fairfax, threadmaker; (v) £3 per annum fee farm from a Spon Street messuage called the "Woolpack", with garden, granted to Joseph Ash; (w) £2/10/- per annum fee farm from a messuage and garden, Well Street, granted to Joseph Craner, tiler; (x) £3 per annum fee farm from an Ironmonger Row messuage granted to Thomas King, gentleman; (y) £8 per annum fee-farm rent from a Cross Cheaping messuage, 6 yards long and 40 yards deep to the Women's Market Place, granted to John Kilsby, mercer and alderman; (z) £3 per annum fee farm from a messuage on the eastern side of Cross Cheaping granted to Septimus Bott, apothecary; (aa) 26/- per annum fee-farm rent from a messuage on the western side of Hay Lane granted to Samuel Smith, mercer; (ab) £1/6/8 per annum fee farm from a Bayley Lane messuage granted to John Scotten, baker; and (ac) £8 per annum fee farm from Swift's or Cave's Mill granted to Moses Parker: the new mortgage is for £2,250 plus £112/10/- for one year's interest, whereof £56/5/- should be paid next 3 Apr, £2,306/5/- on 3 Oct 1729, subject to BA/A/G/2/1.
Receipts by Elizabeth Cater for £735/6/- and by Abraham Owen (corporation treasurer) for £1,514/14/-.