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As per 24 Mar 1702 vestry order, by Edward Owen (alderman [and feltmaker]), William Snell (alderman [and mercer]), Edward Rogers (clothworker), Samuel Bedford (clothier) and Edward Smith (clothier), all of Coventry, surviving feoffees, of Catesby Oadham (mercer), Samuel Walker (mercer), Edward Hud[d]esford (ironmonger), Thomas Hurt (bookseller), Michael Lawrence (ironmonger), Thomas Grascom (butcher), James Maycock (mercer), James Birch (silkman), Ralph Buttress (baker), Thomas Dashwood (vintner), Charles Buggs (worsteadweaver), John Yardley junior (clothier), John Lander (tanner), Joseph Yardley (clothier), William Denham (saddler), Thomas Comley (innholder), John Gibbons (parchment maker), Charles Ash (clothworker), William Villers (worsteadweaver), John Ithall (innholder) and Nehemiah Pickering (barber), St. MIchael's vestrymen, with (a) as PA96/71/1(a) (occupied by [the brewer] Joseph Ash), (b) as PA96/71/1(e) (now "employed for the habitations of poor people"), (c) as PA96/71/1(f) (occupied by Norton Hanson, gentleman or his assigns), (d) as PA96/71/1(g) (occupied by George Allatt's widow), (e) a vacant parcel of ground whereon formerly stood diverse messuages (extending from the southern side of the church by the street to the wall of the cornerhouse there which Widow Smith tenants), (f) another vacant plot whereon once was Robert "Bedson"'s messuage to the south and west of the steeple (extending to the cornerhouse now [the baker] John Hands'), (g) as PA96/71/1(i ) (Hardingworth Fields now belong to Sir William Jesson's son William Jesson, esq.), (h) as PA96/71/1(j) (land held by -), (i) 40/- per annum fee farm from PA96/71/1(h)'s messuages which now belong to the threadmaker Sampson Clarke but are inhabited by Elizabeth Hunt and the brushmaker John Jones, (j) 30/- per annum fee farm from PA96/71/1(d)'s messuage (lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Armstead [a Holy Trinity churchwarden, 1713], now by William Shakespear) and (k) as PA96/71/1(k): to be held upon terms as in PA96/71/1 with similar provision for re-enfeoffment.
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