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Under his will, Thomas Bond founded a hospital to accommodate ten almsmen (it was much-rebuilt, 1832-34) with a woman to care for them, all chosen by the Trinity Guild; the lands were worth £49/11/7 p.a., whereout £17/6/8 was distributed yearly (i.e. 6/8 per week), £3/16/- used for buying the men's gowns, 13/4 for alms, £1/3/4 for wood and £2 paid to the bailiff; Bond's Hospital (in Hill St.) was granted to the corporation on 12th. Jan., 1547/48; the nineteenth-century rebuilding allowed the trustees and feoffees to support twenty almsmen and to meet in a boardroom. Bond, a draper, was mayor in 1497-98: he also bequeathed £20 towards building a wall at the Charterhouse and 20 marks for completion of Whitefriars' cloister; he owned much property, becoming an assignee of "The Sterre" inn on 20th. June, 1500 (see PA371/1); his brass (PA2409/2/11/2 is a rubbing) was in St. Michael's and a memorial window in St. Mary's Hall Great Hall. Bond died on 18th. Mar., 1506/07 and was buried in St. Michael's. His grandson Thomas (as is shown on the hospital wall) claimed the lands by a Chancery suit, but the corporation won them in James I's time; in 1553 the property of the charity was in Earl Street, Harnall, Radford, Coundon (all in Coventry), Arley, Bulkington and Fillongley (all in Warwickshire) and Bitteswell (Leicestershire) - it had retained all but the first-, third- and fourth-named places' lands three centuries later. See PA101/147 for the Hospital. See PA242/3/27 for trustees' sale of part of the charity's Radford land to Newcombe Estates Co. Ltd. in 1914. See PA263/8. In 1492 Bond was a sheriff. In about 1499 Bond granted a chantry in Greyfriars' church to the master of that institution - see PA71/1 fol. 134. Bond's arms are displayed on the front of the Council House - see PA492/2 fols. 8,9. In 1486 Bond was a city warden. For other references to the hospital, see the places-index. Bond was interested in Coventry, Coundon, Whoberley and Allesley land, 21 Henry VII (see PA21/1/46). PA17/30/1,2 relate to the grandson's lawsuit. PA16/2 fols. 40 recto - 41 recto, 92 recto - 93 recto (fol. "62") are abridgements of Thomas Bond senior's will. Master of Trinity Guild, 1493 - see BA/B/B/1/1. Corpus Christi Guild master, 1497 - see BA/B/Q/12/1. Qua sheriff, see BA/B/P/164/7. For Greyfriars' church chantry, see BA/B/K/2/30. For the general effect of the dissolution of the guilds and chantries on his estate, see BA/B/P/102/3. The borough archive's principal collection for Bond's Hospital is BA/D/D, but see also BA/H/Q/A79/316B: BA/H/Q/F20/3: BA/M/E/12/1. For the almsmen, see BA/H/Q/F8/5/5. For the lawsuit, see BA/D/D/1; BA/D/D/26/2,3. Qua mayor, see BA/H/H/298/2: BA/H/N/3/1. BA/B/P/7/1 are letters-patent for the maintenance of the personnel of what became the hospital (1508). Bond was a feoffee for property at Little Park Street (1488 - PA468/5/33/35/1), Spon St. (1504 - BA/B/P/359/37,38), Radford (1491 - BA/B/P/438/1), Smithford St. (1498 - BA/H/H/309/18) and Gosford St. (1493 - BA/H/H/399/7: PA96/86/1) and for land which became part of the Ford's Hospital estate (1506 - BA/D/K/8/15). He built a house on a Smithford St. timberyard (BA/B/P/344/1) and had Harnall land (1499 - BA/H/H/298/1). Bond acted as an attorney to deliver seisin (1475 - BA/H/H/249/7). PA54/1-136 comprises a large collection of documents which relates to the charity; PA500/3-7 is a smaller collection. PA54/3/1 is a copy of his will. The Fillongley family's descendant Roger Darsy granted Thomas Bond and others land at Fillongley, Corley and Marlbrooks-in-Alspath (all Warwickshire) in 1503 (PA56/58/2). See PA468/5/3/71/2.