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As per 8 Mar [1785] vestry order and in consideration of 10/- each, by John Mander (late silkman, now wine merchant), Edward Villers (late ironmonger, now maltster), Lilley Smith (oilman) and Francis Blick (chandler), all of Coventry, surviving Holy Trinity feoffees, of William Elliott (esq.), Stephen Simpson (silkman), John Villers (ironmonger, cutler and toyman), George Eld (baker), John Stanton (gentleman), Thomas Shaw (mercer), William Grant (dyer), Thomas Goodwin (mercer), Edward Eagle (grocer), John Jeayes (silkman), Edward Hiorn (druggist), Samuel Bailye (bookseller), Moses Backhouse (shopkeeper), Samuel Payne (hatter), Nathaniel Lowe (grocer), William Twycross (dyer) and John Laxon (grocer), all of Holy Trinity parish, vestrymen elected as new feoffees, with (a) CCA/2/3/233/1(a)'s Gosford Street messuages, now inhabited by Thomas Dayus [butcher], William Horsfield and John Laxon; (b) CCA/2/3/233/1(b)'s Little Park Street ground, now let to Mr. Thomas Clay [silkman]; (c) a new messuage and premises lately built by Thomas Clay on part of (b); (d) CCA/2/3/233/1(c)'s Cow Lane tenement, occupied by James Downing [carpenter]; (e) CCA/2/3/233/1(d)'s Earl Street tenement, successively occupied by Richard Edwards, Mr. William Dadley [attorney] and Mr. Jeremiah Lowe [silkman]but now untenanted; (f) CCA/2/3/233/1(e)'s Greyfriars' Lane property, held by Samuel Rew; (g) CCA/2/3/233/1(f)'s Greyfriars' Lane property, in lease to John Sadler; (h) CCA/2/3/233/1(g)'s Spon Street ground, shown as next to Saint John's church, now let to Alderman John Clarke [bullder]; (i) a new messuage and buildings lately erected on (h) by John Clarke, tenanted by Samuel Gibbons; (j) CCA/2/3/233/1(h)'s Spon Street fee-farm rent, the messuage successively demised to Elizabeth Fawston, Benjamin Beaufoy [no sign of William Grove] and now Charles Lilley [silkman]; (k) CCA/2/3/233/1(i)'s Spon End tenement and Urchinfield ley, leased to William Brookes; (l) CCA/2/3/233/1(j)'s Smithford Street tenement, successively inhabited by John Gilbert, John Boyce [corkcutter] and now Mrs. Mary Boyce; (m) CCA/2/3/233/1(k)'s Well Street tenement, rented out to Alderman James Soden [silkman]; (n) CCA/2/3/233/1(l)'s barn site with backside at Cook Street, tenanted by Mary Lond; (o) CCA/2/3/233/1(m)'s Cook Street tenement with backside, now occupied by the aforesaid John Jeayes; (p) the "Crane" inn, etc. £4/8/4 annual rentcharge, the messuage being successively inhabited by Widow Hopkins, John Simpson and now John Hunter; (q) the 10/- annual rentcharge from a Bishop Street tenement successively inhabited by John Orton, Robert Smith (gentleman), Katherine Smith, John Orton [recte James Wigley, esq.] and now John Pritchard [cf. CCA/2/3/233/3(o)]; (r) the 3/4 per annum rentcharge from CCA/2/3/233/1(p)'s Cross Cheaping messuage (successively occupied by - Brookes, John Hill [grocer], Stephen Simpson [silkman] aforesaid, John Cox [grocer] and now - Hassall) and Dog Lane close (successively let to Mr. Smith, John Edwards (gentleman), the late Thomas Cratern [attorney], Thomas Docker [linen draper] and now Thomas Ensor [baker]) [no mention of William Grove]; (s) CCA/2/3/233/3(q)'s Cross Cheaping messuage, now occupied by the aforesaid Thomas Shaw; (t) CCA/2/3/233/3(r)'s Cross Cheaping house, now let to the said T. Shaw; (u) CCA/2/3/233/3(s)'s messuage on the western side of the Cross Cheaping street which leads to Broadgate, successively occupied by the brazier [William] Winterton, the widow Sabra Jee and now Joshua Reynolds [silversmith]; (v) CCA/2/3/233/1(r)'s Lockers Moore, farmed by Thomas Adkins in succession to John Hill; (w) CCA/2/3/233/1(t)'s Cross Cheaping shop, successively used by Alderman Thomas Brockhurst, Thomas Cheslyn [mercer] and now Thomas Pratt [grocer]; (x) CCA/2/3/233/3(v)'s Cross Cheaping tenement with cellar, successively occupied by Robert Reeve, Edward Freeman [mercer] and now Messieurs [Charles] England [winemerchant] and Lloyd; (y) CCA/2/3/233/1(v)'s Derby Lane tenement or stable, late occupied by Joseph Eld, now or late by John Eyre [woolcomber]; (z) a 10/- per annum rentcharge upon the Derby Lane messuage known as the "Barley Mow" (inhabited successively by William Hodges, George Francis and now Joseph Owen) and upon the site of the entry and room adjacent to the "Sun" tavern which has been laid into Holy Trinity cemetery; (aa) CCA/2/3/233/1(y)'s 5/- per yearly fee farm from the site of Jesus Hall with stable and outbuildings; (ab) 20/- yearly fee farm from the vicarage; (ac) Currin's encroachment and rent as described at CCA/2/3/233/7(aa); (ad) CCA/2/3/233/1(aa)'s West Orchard tenement, successively inhabited by William Jackson, Mary Jackson (widow) and now Thomas Croft; (ac) two Horwell closes and a meadow [cf. CCA/2/3/233/3(t)], occupied by George Newton; (ae) CCA/2/3/233/7(ac)'s two Horwell closes and a meadow, successively farmed by George Newton, - and now William Presbury; (af) CCA/2/3/233/7(ad)'s three Horwell closes (formerly four) farmed in succession by Thomas Dullison, James Crisp [butcher], William Footman and now Jonathan Rowland; (ag) CCA/2/3/233/3(ad)'s two Horwell closes, successively occupied by Richard Cooper, Cleophas Ratcliff, Nathan Norton and now the aforesaid Samuel Payne; (ah) CCA/2/3/233/3(ae)'s two Horwell Closes, successively used by the tanner John Lander, John Scotton, William Grant and now Richard Kevett [parchment-maker]; (ai) CCA/2/3/233/7(ag)'s Allesley farmstead (1a. 1r. 18p.), leased successively to Francis Turner Blythe, esq. and the late Thomas Ward; (aj) one close (4a. 2r. 5p.), formerly two, in Allesley, with pasture (2a. 2r. 13p.) on Church Hill there, formerly occupied by John Tim and known as Tims Farm, afterwards successively held by Francis Blythe, FrancisTurner Blythe and Thomas Ward; (ak) a pigsty, dovehouse, etc. (altogether 3r. 21p.) which F. Blithe built on Holy Trinity parish lands, successively let to him, the Dowager Lady Leigh, - and now Edward Holmes; (al) a close (2a. 2r. 12p.) formerly let to John Tim and known as Tims Close, successively leased to F. Blythe, the Dowager Lady Leigh and [no intermediary] now E. Holmes; (am) an Allesley meadow called Trinity Grove (6a. 0r. 6p.); (an) CCA/2/3/233/1(ae)'s Skinnards property at Bell Green, let to John Simpson [butcher]; (ao) CCA/2/3/233/1(af)'s Holbrooks estate, leased to Thomas Bacon; (ap) CCA/2/3/233/1(ag)'s 2/- annual Coundon rentcharge, the closes being successively occupied by Katherine Smith, - and now [Henry] Greswold Lewis, esq.; (aq) CCA/2/3/233/3(aj)'s a messuage and two closes at Coundon, successively tenanted by Katherine Smith, Robert Reeve and now Thomas Shaw senior [husbandman]; (ar) Upper Shuckmore as at CCA/2/3/233/1(ai), occupied successively by John Lond, Thomas Wale and now Thomas Dayus junior; (as) Stoneydelph and The Stripes as at CCA/2/3/233/1(aj), farmed successively by - Taylor, William Johnson and now the aforesaid John Pritchard; (at) CCA/2/3/233/1(ak)'s Barrs Hill Close and another, lately occupied by Thomas Cheslyn but now by the aforesaid Thomas Shaw; (au) CCA/2/3/233/7(ap)'s Brinklow estate, now occupied by Thomas Eburne; and (av) CCA/2/3/233/1(am)'s unspecified Keresley rentcharge, the lane being occupied successively by Richard Treen, - and now -: to be held upon the same terms as those in CCA/2/3/233/1.