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By Henry Smith (alderman [and whittawer]), Joseph Chambers (alderman [and clothier]; a feoffee of St. Michael's church property), James Nailer [draper], William Vale [clothier], and Thomas Gery [whittawer] (aldermen), with Samuel Feake, Master of Arts (vicar), and John Brownell (gentleman) [a St. Michael's churchwarden, 1635], Gilbert Adderley (clothier) and John Bennion (baker) (the three other surviving feoffees) and John Collins (clothier), Thomas Ansell (clothworker), Fulke Waldron (blacksmith), John Brooke (stationer), William Maycock (clothier) and George Porter (whittawer) (six churchwardens), all of Coventry, of Thomas Bewley (plumber), William Greenway (mercer), Edward Rogers (clothworker), Samuel Bedford (clothier), Thomas Burnes junior (fellmonger), William Wightman (clothier), Thomas Lawrence (blacksmith), Edward Owen (feltmaker), Richard Hayward (ironmonger), William Snell (mercer), Joseph Nicholes (clothier), Francis Clarke (draper), Thomas Sargenson (draper), Benjamin Bayes (clothier) and Edward Smith (clothier), St. Michael's vestrymen, with (a) a messuage and cottage with orchard and croft, at Gosford Street outside the gate (successively occupied by Gawen Hobley (ploughwright), John Hall (yeoman [clothier]), now the said James Nailer); (b) six messuages on the northern side of Bayley Lane to the south of the church (formerly inhabited severally by Robert Moore, Richard Burton, Widow Procter and Widow Billing; now by Thomas Savage (butcher), Richard Randell (butcher) and Joseph Catterns (tiler); (c) a messuage on the northern side of Bayley Lane to the south of the church steeple, with a chamber to its west above the passage from Bayley Lane into the churchyard (occupied by Robert Betson [cordwainer]); (d) a messuage on the northern side of Bayley Lane on the corner of Cuckoo Lane, formerly occupied by Thomas Yardley (baker), now by Elizabeth Portman (widow); (e) a messuage with garden on the eastern side of Little Park Street, formerly occupied by the late Daniel Witherley [no trade], now by William Witherley (wiredrawer); (f) two cottages, a garden and an orchard in St. John's Street alias Dead Lane on the northern side (once held by Thomas Hill (draper), now by Sir Thomas Norton, Baronet or his assigns); (g) a messuage on the western side of Broadgate successively occupied by William Hickman (mercer), Alderman John Clarke [mercer] and now George Allatt (apothecary); (h) a messuage on the northern side of Smithford Street (formerly tenanted by John Clarke, threadmaker, deceased) and another there (lately held by Thomas Moye, fletcher, deceased), both now occupied by the threadmaker Sampson Clarke; (i) a £6 annuity from the two closes called Hardingworth Fields, Stoke, Coventry, once the land of the late Alderman Christopher Warren [dyer] but now of Sir William Jesson, Knight; (j) a £4 annuity from diverse properties in Wymondham, Leicestershire (once occupied by John Fisher, later by William Gamble); and (k) a 20/- annuity which was [the draper] Mr. Thomas Nicholls' right and is paid to the churchwardens by the Coventry city wardens: allowing the churchwardens of the day to take the rents for repairing the church and defraying expenses as a majority of the vestrymen shall decide; re-enfeoffment when the numbers are down to five. [Marginations about some properties' subsequent fates.]