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Whereby, having recited: firstly, PA101/8/170; secondly, Benjamin Conigrave's death; thirdly, the deaths of Ann [I]., William and Alice Conigrave; fourthly, that Joseph Conigrave died unmarried and chilldless; fifthly, that all William Conigrave's children are adult; sixthly, that B. Conigrave's trustees have not sold the Spon Street houses but that the £50 charged thereon to White's Charity has been discharged (the only people interested in the premises being James Conigrave (of Coventry, carpenter), his wife Sarah, William Francis (of Coventry, engine-weaver), his wife Mary, Daniel Wesson (of Coventry, tailor), his wife Ann, and Elizabeth Conigrave (of Coventry, spinster); James, Mary, Ann and Elizabeth are the children of William Conigrave (of Coventry, carpenter; a deceased son of the late Benjamin Conigrave of Coventry, gentleman)); seventhly, that Joseph Cattell died, being survived by Thomas King who is now dead with Catherine King (of Coventry, spinster; granddaughter of Thomas King of Coventry, gentleman, deceased, the surviving trustee under PA1011/8/170) his heir at law; eighthly, that James Conigrave et al have sgreed to divide the property into four equal parts; and ninthly, that a survey shows (a) that two houses should be allotted to James Conigrave (built by him on the site of one with a garden 25 feet in breadth from the brewhouse allotted to Mary Francis to the entrance to a garden occupied by Thomas Mason (of Coventry, gentleman) and 80 feet 6 inches in length from the boundary wall to the brewhouse's southern end) in Greyfriars' :Lane (formerly occupied siccessively by William Sprigg and John Lithgoe, now by Samuel Coldicot and Edward Tomkies) witjh uses of the rest of the yard in front of the house, a necessary-house and a muckhole, in common with the Francises, Wessons and E. Conigrave), (b) that James should have a house on the southern side of Spon Street, inhabited by him (with a 27-foot frontage and 20 feet deep) with other property (namely the lower part of the yard behind the messuage and closed off from the muckhole by James' brick wall at the northern end and used as a timber-yard, and two new necessary-houses; W. Francis et al may use the [lavatories] but allow James to build a new one, a muckhole and a path into the timber-yard; J. Conigrave will carry off water from any such new building and allow free passage from Spon Street, joint use of the well by W. Francis et al and payment of one-quarter of the upkeep by each of his sisters or their husbands), (c) the Francises should be allocated a messuage and brewhouse fronting Greyfriars' Lane (occupied in succession by Ann Conigreve [I], Samuel Caldecott, and now by Joseph Coldicott) with an adjoining room (over the room belonging to Elizabeth Conigrave but let to Eleanor Mitchell, spinster) and use of part of the yard behind not allocated to J. Conigrave (and enjoyment of the muckhole and necessary-house), (d) the Francises should acquire the Spon Street messuage behind (b) and between that one and [f] property (lstely inhabited by Esther Kateley, widow, but now by W. Francis) and Spon Street ground (adjoining [f] property and forming part of a house-site (tenanted successively by Robert Litchfield and Widow Kimberley) which has sides 17 feet 11 inches and 16 feet 4 nches long, is 15 feet 4 inches long at the end running from A. Wesson's messuage to J. Conigrave's muckhole and necessary-house, and 15 feet 1 inch long at the other end) with uses (of a way from Spon Street; and of the well, necessary-house and muckhole in common with J. Conigrave, the Wessons and E. Conigrave), (e) that the Wessons should obtain a Greyfriars' Lane messuage (formerly occupied by William Conigrave, now by D. Wesson) with uses (of a portion of yard not allotted to James, and of the well, etc. with yhe other children of W. Conigrave), (f) that the Wessns should take a Spon Street house (occupied by Robert Litchfield, lying behind property [h] and the piece of ground mentioned in (d)) with use of services in common with other children of W. Conigrave, (g) that E. Conigrave should enjoy the lower room mentioned in (e) and a coalshed on the opposite side of Greyfriars' Lane yard (between M. Francis' brewhouse and A. Wesson's tenement; occupied by Eleanor Mitchell, spinster, with use of a part of the yard not allotted to James Conigrave and enjoyment of services with the siblings), and (h) a Spon Street messuage behind W. Francis' but between M. Francis' and A. Wesson's houses (occupied by Widow Stanbridge, with right of passage from Spon Street and use of the well, etc.): therefore (in consideration of the agreement and of 10/- paid to each of W. Conigrave's children, their husbands and C King by T. Mason and (as J. Conigrave's trustee) Charles Lilly (of Coventry, silkman) C. King and W. Conigrave's progeny convey to Mason et al the property upon such trusts as James Conigrave shall appoint for (a) and (b) (with successive remaiders to J. Conigrave for life, C. Lilly for J. Conigtave's life, and J. Conigrave's heirs), and mutatis mutandis as the Francises, the Wessons and E. Conigrave shall appoint for (c) and (d), (e) and (f), and (g) and (h) respectively: covenant to levy final concord with John Drake (of Foleshill, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer) and his wife Elizabeth for the property, which will be described as seven messuages, seven cottages, seven gardens and 3a. land in Saint Michael's and Saint John Baptist's parishes and Foleshill, Coventry.