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For a certain sum, by Edward, Lord Zouche, Saintmaur and Cantelupe to Humphrey Purefoy (of Coventry, esq.) and Thomas Banester (gentleman [no abode]) of three closes in Foleshill, Coventry called "Hill feild", "Churche feild" and "le Ruydings", together with a 4-a. coppice and 0.5-a. meadow and 20/- annual rent from a nearby watermill (which is being tenanted by the gentleman John Poulteney and the miller William Bacon), all occupied severally by Richard Judd, Nicholas Higginson, Anthony "Salkeild".John Poultney and William Bacon, but excepting "Boyes Wast" in "Weston sive Focell" which is let to N. Higginson and a cottage with arable croft which is reserved to the grantor: Hill Field abuts on R. Judd's mansion and his "Cote Wast" to the south, the lane from Jufdd's house to Bell Green and upon [the draper] Francis Tallons' land to the east, a lane from Bell Green to Foleshill church (called Church Lane) and "Lyttelcroft" to the north and Church Field to the west; Church Field bounds Church Lane north, Shaw Lane west and [the yeoman] William Ashmore's Wall Furlong and the said coppice south [only]; the coppice adjoins Wall Furlong west and south and Hill Field east [only]; the meadow's boundaries are Wall Furlong on the north and west, and Cote Waste on the south and east; Ruydings has on its west a road from the bridge near the mill which proceeds to Alderman's Green alias Loades Green and so on to Bulkington, on its south William Willoughby's land which Humphrey Townsend tenants, on its east W. Willoughby's meadow which William Ashmore cuts and the Hawkesbury estate [or farm land - terr' firme], and on its north Hawkesbury Wood and the gentleman John Nethermill's land which John Bennet occupies: to be held for ever for the use of Humphrey Purefoy, Thomas Banester and the former's heirs; H. Purefoy's servants Paul Wood and Thomas Underwood are appointed attorneys to deliver seisin.
8 Oct 1578. Livery of seisin endorsed before ten witnesses, four of whom are shown as [ex-]scholars of Coventry School.