A Premises at Bedworth and Exhall purchased with £800 given by the will of Mr. Samuel Collins.
I 12 Dec 1721. Will of Samuel Collins (of Coventry, gentleman [weaver and clothier]) which left St. Michael's churchwardens £800 to be paid within two years of his death so that they might buy property within ten miles of Coventry to finance the church's repair, charged with a £40 annuity to his wife Susannah.
II 6-7 Apr 1752. Lease and Release whereby for £790 John Knightley alias Wightwick junior (of Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire, esq.) conveyed to Thomas Burgh (of Coventry, doctor in physic) (a) a messuage with Homestead or Home Close, Hovel Field, "The Ruff", Calves Piece or Calves Field, Broom Leys, Little Blackthorn Close, Little Meadow, Far Calves Close, Clover Close and Gorsey Piece, Bedworth parish, Warwickshire [margination about sometime woodland]; and (b) 2a. in Exhall parish, Coventry county which was part of "Hardings Ruff", lying on that side of the close where there is a cartway towards Coventry and then to be fenced off from the rest of that close, along with tithe.
III 24 Jun 1757. Security whereby, having recited: firstly, I; secondly, that Susanna Collins married the late Mr. William White [a St. Michael's churchwarden, 1731], the pair of them giving a security by way of mortgage for the £800 which was during Dec 1750 secured to the St. Michael's churchwardens; thirdly, that Thomas Burgh contracted to buy the property; fourthly, that the profits had been applied to the church's use, subject to Susanna's annuity (upon which a considerable amount of arrears had accrued which her executors needed); but fifthly, that St. Michael's had fallen into great decay and needed at least £500 to repair it, hence the vestry had ordered (23 Jun [1757]) that T. Burgh should raise £300 by way of annuity, to be charged upon the premises so as to discharge the annuity-arrears and pay for repairs from the residue: therefore he charged to Michael Eyre (of Coventry, gentleman [woolstapler]) £28 per annum rent from the premises under the 99-year term for Raphael "Sumervile" (pinmaker) and John Upton (chapman), both of Coventry[, Richard Streane (of Coventry, attorney) also participating].
IV 21-22 Oct 1757. Lease and Release by Thomas Burgh to St.. Michael's vestrymen (described as in PA96/71/10) of the premises.
V 22 Oct 1757. Dclationof Trust by St. Michael's vestrymen (described as in PA96/71/10) to Thomas Burgh for IV's premises [undetailed].
VI 9-10 Feb 1778. Lease and Release as PA96/71/11-12 but for the Bedworth and Exhall premises.
VII 10 Feb 1778. Declaration of Trust as PA96/71/14 but for the Bedworth and Exhall properties.
VIII 4 Apr 1793. Lease by St. Michael's feoffees [not detailed] to Jonathan Townsend of Bedworth of the premises for 21 years from 19 Sep 1790 at £42 per annum; Jonathan Townsend might not plough more than 30a. per annum during the final triennium, under penalty of £5 per a..
B Premises on the southern side of Gosford Street.
IX 14 Dec 1652. Feoffment, for £80, by Samuel Ward (of Coventry, gentleman [weaver]) and his wife Abigail (daughter of Oliver Perkins of Coventry, clerk [in Holy Orders], deceased) of Thomas [I] Hobson (of Coventry, gentleman [a St. Michael's churchwarden, 1660]) with a messuage with garden, orchard and backside (occupied by Samuel Wale) on the southern side of Gosford Street (between a messuage lately [the draper] Francis Talants', sometime inhabited by Oliver Perkins but then by the clothier William Sharp on the east and a corporation one on the west; extending from the street to Whitefriars' land on the south), all formerly three tenements with gardens: to be held for 1,000 years; covenant to levy final concord for Thomas [I] Hobson's use during the term, then for the Wades and their assignees.
X 14 Dec 1652. Bond for performance of IX.
XI 16 Dec 1652. Defeasance whereby Thomas [I] Hobson covenanted that, if Samuel Ward and his wife Abigail paid him £84/16/- on 21 Dec 1653, IX should be void.
[Insertion about bundle of Chancery proceedings.]
XII 1 Feb 1669. Assignment by Prudence Hobson (widow of Thomas [I]) and Thomas [II] Hobson (their eldest son), as T. [I] Hobson's executors, to John Deacon [a St. Michael's churchwarden, 1662] of the premises for the term's residue.
XIII 1 Feb 1669. Counterpart of XII.
XIV 3 Feb 1669. Mortgage by John Deacon to Prudence and Thomas [II] Hobson of the premises for 99 years for £60.
XV 1 Jan 1679. Endorsement upon XIV whereby Prudence and Thomas [II] Hobson assigned the premises to Ann Hobson.
XVI 1 Mar 1683. Assignment by Jonathan Symmonds and his wife Anna (nee Hobson) to Samuel Collins (of Coventry, clothier) of the premises.
XVII 6 Sep 1683. Assignment by John Deacon to Jonathan Symmonds and his wife Anna of the premises for the1652 term's residue.
XVIII 27 May 1688. Marriage Settlement whereby Samuel Collins entrusted Joseph Symcox [apothecary] and Thomas Davil [properly Davoile?] with inter alia the premises for the term's residue so that he might receive rents for life, thereafter Mary Symcox, their child(ren) or by default his executors in succession.
XIX 12 and 18 Dec 1721. Samuel Collins' will as at I.
XX 11 Mar 1771. Lease [XIX, XX are in reverse order in the original] by St. Michael's churchwardens and overseers to Christopher Jackson (of Coventry, carpenter) of the premises (successively lately occupied by William White (gentleman [aforesaid]) and Mrs. Hales (widow)) for 42 years from [25 Mar 1771].
C Northern side of Gosford Street and western side of Mill Lane premises, given under Samuel Collins' will.
XXI 21 Nov 1685. Conveyance, for £16, by Roger Fisher, Joyce Fisher and Mary Fisher to Samuel Collins of a tenement with garden and orchard, 55 yards X 7 yards, on the northern side of Gosford Street.
XXII 21 Nov 1685. Bond for performance of XXI.
XXIII 19 Nov 1686. Deed to Lead to a Final Concord whereby the Fishers covenanted with Samuel Collins et al for those premises.
XXIV 9-10 Oct 1687. Lease and Release [margination that it was not in the settlement] by the Weavers' Company to Samuel Collins for £17 for the weavers' pageanthouse (successively occupied by the carpenter William Ellis, the clothworker John Heele and Samuel Collins), on the western side of Mill Lane.
XXV 27 May 1688. Marriage Settlement as XVIII.
XXVI 12 and 18 Dec 1721. Samuel Collins' will and codicil, which left a messuage in Gosford Street and Mill Lane (occupied by [William] Chaplain [,bricklayer]) and that in Bayley Lane (inhabited by Thomas Baker [PA56/20/1 has him in the Gosford Street house]) to St. Michael's churchwardens and overseers.
D Premises on the eastern side of Mill Lane.
XXVII 16-17 Jun 1693. Lease and Release, for £26, by William Jesson, esq,. to John Yardley (of Coventry, alderman [clothier]) of a messuage (occupied by Jesse Poole junior [for him and which, see PA56/79/51]) on the eastern side of Mill Lane.
XXVIII 11-12 Jun 1717. Lease and Release, for £48, by Joseph Yardley (clothier) and William Keeling (clothier), both of Coventry, executors of John Yardley, to John Skeers junior (of Coventry, tiler) of the premises.
XXIX 3 Oct 1718. Mortgage by Demise for 500 Years whereby John Skeers junior charged to Right Honourable William Bromley (esq.), Honourable John Craven (esq.), Thomas Gery (knight) and Richard Eburne (esq.), four of Sir Thomas White's Charity trustees, the premises for redemption of £20 on 8 Oct 1727.
XXX 3 Oct 1718. Bond for performance of XXIX.
XXXI 5 May 1753. Bargain and Sale whereby for 5/- John Skeers (of Coventry, mason) entrusted Thomas Smith (oilman) and William Lemon (innholder), both of Coventry, with (a) a messuage with stable in Mill Lane (tenanted by [the gardener] Thomas King at £3/10/- per annum) and (b) the abstracted premises (adjoining (a) and occupied by - Haywood at £2/13/- per annum ) - both in trust to permit St. Michael's vicar and churchwardens to let the property so as to maintain them, discharge expenses and distrbute residuary moneys in a dole of 12d. per week every Sunday after divine service, anything else being used for a dole every 1 Jan.
27 Jun 1753. Enrolled in Chancery.
XXXII 12 Jul 1793. Lease by the vicar and churchwardens of St. Michael's to William Smith (of Coventry, victualler) of (a) premises occupied by William Hayes and (b) premises behind (a) (tenanted by John Hodgetts, Thomas Shenton, Ann Davis et al) with a brewhouse and necessary house, all in Mill Lane, for 21 years at 8/- per annum.
E Toft adjoining the southern side of High Street and the western side of Greyfriars' Lane.
XXXIII 29 Dec 1677. Feoffment by Margaret [I] Lindsey (widow) and Elizabeth [I] Lindsey (spinster) of Richard Lindsey (chandler) with a messuage (successively occupied by the draper John Daniel, the apothecary Joseph Symcox and then Richard Lindsey).
XXXIV 13 Jun 1705. Probate Copy of the Will of Richard Lindsey, which left the premises to his wife Margaret [II] for life, then his daughters Mary and Elizabeth [II].
XXXV 30-31 Mar 1714. Lease and Release by William Morris (of Coventry, esq. [a St. Michael's churchwarden, 1717]) with his wife Elizabeth (nee Lindsey) to Mary Lindsey (of Coventry, spinster) of their moiety of the premises, with a covenant to levy a final concord.
XXXVI 4-5 Jun 1717. Lease and Release by way of Marriage Settlement whereby William Smith (of Coventry, chandler) and his wife Mary [I] (nee Lindsey) entrusted Thomas Smith (blacksmith) and Edward Rawson (silkman), both of Coventry, with the premises for the successive uses of William Smith and then his wife for life, their bodily heirs, and his heirs; covenant to levy final concord.
XXXVII 26 Nov 1753. Bargain and Sale by Mary [I] Smith senior (of Coventry, widow of William) and Mary [II] Smith junior (of Coventry, spinster; their only daughter) to John Huddesford (ironmonger), Edward Freeman (alderman [mercer]), Thomas Oldham (alderman [silkman]), Thomas Brockhurst (alderman [watchmaker]), Robert Hughes (mercer), William Fowler (glover), John Lucas (apothecary), Edward Grasvenor senior (silkman), Nathaniel Cox (mercer), Thomas Thacker (tailor), John Ratten (bookseller),and Josiah Oram (skinner), all of Coventry, of a toft whereon a messuage stood which was occupied by William Smith, near Broadgate and adjoining the southern side of High Street for 10 feet and the western side of Greyfriars' Lane for 30 feet 9 inches, being 10 feet 6 inches on the side opposite High Street.
XXXVIII 15 Aug 1763. Affidavit by William Dadley [attorney] that he had XXXVII's original.
XXXIX 27 George III. Final Concord wherein John Huddesford was plaintiff and Mary [I] Smith (widow) and Mary [II] Smith (spinster) were deforciants for a toft in Coventry.
F Smithford Street premises granted in fee farm to Sampson Clarke
XL 17 Sep 1683. Grant in Fee Farm, in consideration of £20, by Thomas Lawrence (mayor [blacksmith]), Edward Rogers (clothworker), Samuel Bedford (clothier), Thomas Burnes (alderman [fellmonger]), William Wightman (clothier), Edward Owen (feltmaker), Richard Hayward (ironmonger), William Snell (mercer), Joseph Nicks (clothier) and Edward Smith (clothier), St. Michael's vestrymen, to Sampson Clarke (of Coventry, threadmaker) of a messuage (formerly occupied by the late [threadmaker] John Clarke) and the adjacent one (once occupied by the late fletcher Thomas Moy), both then held by Sampson Clarke, lying on the northern side of Smithford Street, subject to a 40/- per annum fee-farm rent.
G Premises in Bayley Lane purchased of Eleanor Dawes.
XLI 2 May 1712. Copy of the Will of John [I] Hands (of Coventry, baker) which left their own dwelling to his wife Martha for sale to discharge his debts.
XLII 19 Feb 1714. Deed Poll whereby John [II] Hands (son of the late John [I]) quitclaimed his interest to his mother.
XLIII 21 Mar 1724. Probate Copy of the Will of James Mayo (of Coventry, flaxdresser) whereby he gave John Drury, after his own wife's death, a house wherein Ralph Whitehead [dyer - see PA56/21/8-9] dwelt, except that John Evans should pay J. Drury at 21 years [of age?] 70/- and thereby enjoy the premises; James Mayo also gave J. Evans two houses where Paul Knibb and Abraham Newcomb [occupied a messuage near Cuckoo Lane - see PA56/83/5-6] lived.
XLIV 23-24 Dec 1729. Lease and Mortgage, for £60, by John Evans and Sarah Mayo (widow) to William Smith (oilman) for (a) a Bayley Lane messuage, then divided into two tenements, near St. Michael's church, which the late James Mayo had bought from Martha and John [II] Hands, then occupied by Ralph "Whitehouse", Paul Knibb and Abraham Newcomb; and (b) a messuage, in two tenements inhabited by Thomas Wright and Thomas Stretton, beyond Gosford Gate on the southern side of the way towards Stoke.
XLV 24 Dec 1729. Bond for performance of XLIV's covenants.
XLVI 7-8 Jun 1733. Lease and Release by John Drury to John Evans of the messuage inhabited by Ralph Whitehead.
XLVII 22 Jun 1733. Letter whereby John Evans appointed William Smith attorney to receive rents of mortgaged premises until all the money should have been discharged.
XLVIII 13 Mar 1727. Mortgage by Demise for 500 Years by John Evans to Sarah Barber (widow) of all the Bayley Lane and Gosford Street premises for £150.
XLIX 11 Sep 1734. Assignment of Mortgage by Demise for 500 Years whereby Thomas Barber (apothecary; Sarah Barber's executor) and John Evans transferred the premises to Thomas Cashmore (of Baginton, Warwickshire, baker).
L 11 Sep 1734. Bond for performance of XLIX's covenants.
LI Michaelmas Term, 7 George II. Final Concord wherein William Smith was plaintiff and John Evans with his wife Abigail were deforciants for four messuages in Coventry.
LII 24-25 Dec 1739. Lease and Release by William Smith and John and Abigail Evans to Ambrose Mason, miller, of all the premises except those beyond Gosford Gate, with declaration that LI should enure to Ambrose Mason's use.
Endorsement that A. Mason's name had been used in trust for John Cashmore (of Baginton, Warwickshire, baker).
LIII 8 Nov 1751. Copy of Will of Thomas Cashmore which left his three Bayley Lane messuages (occupied by George Newcomb, Widow Bird and Widow Sawrey) to his wife Sarah for life, then to his [baker-]brother John, subject to a 2/- annuity to his sister - Glenn and his brother John for their lives.
LIV 3 Aug 1759. Will of John Cashmore which left his daughter Eleanor and her heirs the Bayley Lane premises, expectant upon his sister-in-law Sarah Cashmore's death.
LV 10-11 Nov 1783. Lease and Release by way of Deed to Make a Tenant to the Precipe whereby the Bayley Lane premises were to enure as Eleanor Dawes, widow (daughter of John Cashmore) might appoint, John Kindersley and John Bradnick [maltster] also being involved.
LVI Trinity Term 24 George III. Common Recovery wherein John Bradnick was demandant, John Kindersley plaintiff and Eleanor Dawes vouchee for four messuages and 1a. land in St. Michael's parish.
LVII 17-18 Nov 1783. Lease and Release whereby for £200 Eleanor Dawes conveyed to Thomas Little (esq. [banker]) and George Owen (silkman), both of Coventry, a messuage, sometime since divided into several tenements, in Bayley Lane near St. Michael's (occupied by Sarah Haywood, William Walker [admitted to the freemanship as a threadmaker, Spon Street Ward, 1768], Jonathan Hewitt [weaver, Jordan Well Ward, 1768], Edward Whittington [silkweaver, Bayley Lane Ward, 1768]. Edward Stokes [bricklayer, Jordan Well Ward, 1774], Ann Budd, Sarah Lilly, Thomas Smith and Mary Chamberlain).
H Premises in Cuckoo Lane, formerly belonging to the Weavers' Company, now laid into the New Churchyard.
LVIII 22 Aug 1764. Grant in Fee Farm by the Weavers' Company to William Shaw (glazier) and William Burgess (husbandman), both of Coventry, of land on the eastern side of Cuckoo Lane (between a messuage occupied by William Lucas [ironmonger] on the south and St. Michael's churchyard on the north), on part of which lately stood an old decayed messuage (sometime occupied by Joseph Keen) which William Shaw had taken down, having a 55-foot frontage, being 55 feet 6 inches at the rear beside George Hunt's messuage [one of this name tenanted the "Crown", Bayley Lane in 1767], having a depth west-east on the north side of 18 feet 4 inches, on the south of 19 feet, with a new brick house then a-building; to be held at £4/12/- per annum.
LIX 26-27 Aug 1764. Lease and Mortgage in Fee by William Shaw and William Burgess to Edward "Dugilin" (of Tanworth[-in-Arden], Warwickshire, farmer) of the premises for £100.
LX 19 Oct 1764. Deed Poll whereby William Shaw charged all with a further £100.
LXI 19 Oct 1764. Bond for performance of LX's covenants.
LXII 21-22 Feb 1772. Lease and Assignment of Mortgage in Fee with Further Charge whereby Edward Duglin, with William Shaw and William Burgess, transferred to John Clarke (alderman [builder]) and Joseph Pearman (threadman), both of Coventry, the premises for £250 which belonged to William Glasscott (of Coventry, shopkeeper) and his wife Rebecca.
LXIII 16-17 Jul 1773. Lease and Assignment of Mortgage in Fee by John Clarke, Joseph Pearman, Rebecca Glasscott (widow), William Shaw and William Burgess to Anthony Power (of Coventry, gentleman) of the premises.
LXIV 17 Jul 1773. Bond by William Shaw for performance of LXIII's covenants.
LXV 16-17 Jan 1777. Lease and Assignment of Mortgage in Fee by Anthony Power and William Shaw to Rowland [I] Jackson (of Southam, Warwickshire, gentleman) of the premises.
LXVI 17 Jan 1777. Bond for performance of LXV's covenants.
LXVII 1-2 May 1788. Lease and Release whereby, having recited: firstly, that Mary Jackson (of Southam, widow and administratrix of Rowland [I]) was owed £259; and secondly, that Thomas Little [banker] and George Owen [silkman] had agreed to buy the property for £260: therefore (in consideration of £259 paid to her and £1 to them) Rowland [II] Jackson (then of Northall [Northolt?], Middlesex, gentleman; son and heir of Rebecca Child, late wife of Richard Child of Ladbroke, Warwickshire and sister of Rowland [I] Jackson), Mary Jackson and William Shaw conveyed to Thomas Little and George Owen the premises, subject to the fee-farm rent.
N.B.: Lease neither dated nor executed.
LXVIII 28 Jul 1788. Release whereby, having recited: firstly, LXVII and its premises' having vested in Thomas Little, Richard Burgh (esq. [banker]), B[ryan]T[roughton] (silkman), Jeremiah Lowe (silkman), Thomas Clay (silkman), George Owen (silkman), Charles Elliott (silkman), Martin Holbech (gentleman [stuffmerchant]), John Downing (factor), Joseph Worcester (grocer), Charles Weston (silkman), John Bishop (silkman), Richard Adams (silkman), Stephen Corbett (silkman) and William Ball (carpenter and joiner), surviving St. Michael's feoffees [sic]; and secondly, that the land had become part of the churchyard: therefore for £80 the Weavers' Company conveyed it to the feoffees as part of the burial ground, freed from the fee-farm rent.
I Premises at the corner of Cuckoo Lane, purchased of Horton and Evans and wife, and now laid into the New Churchyard.
LXIX 3 Sep 1687. Grant in Fee Farm by Richard Hayward (alderman [ironmonger]), Edward Owen (gentleman [capper]) and others (surviving St. Michael's feoffees), Richard Tebbit (woolman), Richard Veasey (baker) and others (then churchwardens) to Joseph Worster alias Worcester (carpenter) and Thomas Rose (gentleman), both of Coventry, of a messuage on the corner of Bayley Lane with Cuckoo Lane (successively formerly occupied by the widow Elizabeth Portman and the tailor Robert Yardley) at 30/- per annum.
LXX 3 Sep 1687. Counterpart of LXIX.
LXXI 9-10 Oct 1700. Lease and Release for £100 by Joseph Worster alias Worcester to William Snell (of Coventry, alderman [mercer]) of the premises, subject to the fee-farm rent.
LXXII 24 Mar 1741. Attested Copy of Marriage Settlement whereby, having recited that Francis While (of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, clerk [in Holy Orders]; eldest son of Humphrey Whyle (of Wellesbourne, clerk) and his wife Elizabeth (both deceased)) was to marry Hannah Olds (daughter of "Julynes" Olds of Coventry, mercer), therefore Francis While entrusted to Julynes Olds the premises, then occupied by Benjamin Jee's widow, to the successive uses of F. While and his heirs until the marriage, himself, Hannah Olds, their heirs male, their daughters and his right heirs.
LXXIII 24 Dec 1766 Copy of the Will of Humphrey Peck (of Birmingham, Warwickshire, tailor) whereby he left his daughter Sarah the wife of James Orton a moiety of his Bayley Lane dwelling (occupied by -) with remainder to her children as she might appoint, the other moiety passing similarly to his daughter Nancy Peck.
LXXIV 2-3 Mar 1784. Lease and Release, for £150, by James "Horton" (of Birmingham, shopkeeper) and his wife Sarah, Susannah Horton (of Birmingham, their ten year old daughter) and Richard Evans (of Birmingham, shopkeeper) with his wife "Fanny" (the other daughter of Humphrey Peck, who was cousin and heir of Francis Whyle of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, clerk [in Holy Orders], deceased) to Thomas Little (esq. [banker]) and George Owen (silkman), both of Coventry, of all the premises, subject to the fee farm; the Norton and Evans couples covenanted to levy a final concord, as should Susannah when of age, or by default her heirs within three months of her majority or prior death as the case might be[, John Bradnick (of Coventry, maltster), also participating].
LXXV 3 Mar 1784. Bond from James Horton and Richard Evans in £300 for Susannah Horton's further performance under LXXIV.
LXXVI 24 George III. Final Concord wherein John Bradnick was plaintiff and John Hill with his wife Elizabeth, James Orton with his wife Sarah and Richard Evans with his wife Fanny were deforciants [place not shown].
LXXVII "1780." Confirmation whereby, having recited: firstly, LXXIV, LXXV, that Susannah Horton had reached 21 and that she had married Richard Law (of Birmingham, plater); and secondly, that Thomas Little and George Owen had requested the Laws to ratify the conveyance: therefore that was done.
N.B.: Unsealed, hence did not prove title.
J Premises in Bayley Lane, mortgaged to Samuel Collins, deceased.
LXXVIII 16 Feb 1684. Feoffment by Jane Beardsley, spinster, of Leonard Piddock, gentleman [sometime Town Clerk] with a tenement fronting the southern side of Bayley Lane for 20 feet with a depth eastward to St. Michael's churchyard of 73 feet, to the successive uses of herself for life, Thomas Beardesley (turner) and his wife Mary for life of the longer liver, their bodily heirs and Thomas Beardesley's heirs.
LXXIX 20 Jan 1700. Deed to Declare the Uses of a Final Concord whereby Thomas and Mary Beardesley stated that the premises were conveyed to Edward Owen, alderman [and capper] by way of mortgage for securing £40 with interest.
LXXX 3-4 Nov 1701. Lease and Release by way of Mortgage by Edward Owen and Thomas Beardesley to Samuel Collins [clothier] of the premises for £40 plus interest.
LXXXI 20 Apr 1703. Further Charge by Thomas Beardesley to Samuel Collins of the premises for another £10 with interest.
N.B.: The property was not vested with the feoffees, who are only interested in the mortgage as beneficiaries under Samuel Collins' will.
K Wymondham [,Leicestershire] premises.
LXXXII 6 Aug 1534. Feoffment by William Wigston [merchant of the Calais staple] of the mayor bailiffs and commonalty with lands in "Womondham" [Wymondham].
Annexe. William Wigston's will which declared that he gave 26/8 to St. Michael's churchwardens for a weekly mass: as his brother Henry by his bequest of 26/8 had added 13/4 per annum thereto, if the mass could not be suffered, then 40/- per annum was to be bestowed at his executor's discretion [the benefactors were in fact William and Henry Pisford - see Charity Commissioners' Report for Coventry (Record Office searchroom library reference 361.02) p.267]; therefore, as executor, William Wigston said that the feoffees should become seised of lands for the performance of the mass over eighteen years - if no other demise be made during that term, the premises should be sold and the money used as the corporation might decide.
LXXXIII 18 Jun 1559. Lease from the feoffees et al and the churchwardens to John Fisher of the Wymondham estate for 21 years at 40/- per annum with a £6 entry-fine.
LXXXIV 17 Jun 1588. Deed wherein Charles Bagshott (of London, gentleman) et al, reciting 29 Elizabeth I letters patent for a grant of Wymondham estate which formerly had been devoted to superstitious uses, gave a £40 annuity to Richard Smith [vintner] et al, aldermen, etc. of Coventry, along with the land.
LXXXV 3 Apr 1589. Confirmation of LXXXIV from the tenant William Gamble to Richard Smith et al.
LXXXVI 20 Sep 1589. Assignment by Richard Smith et al of the annuity to Coventry corporation for maintenance of the city poor, Bablake Hospital and the House of Correction.
LXXXVII 28 Sep 1587. Copy letters patent to Charles Bagshott and Bartholomew Yardley (of London, gentleman).
LXXXVIII 20 Dec 1597. Grant whereby, having recited that a £4 annuity arose in perpetuity from the land, therefore the corporation granted the estate to Reynold Richardson [pewterer] et al, St. Michael's churchwardens, for repair of the church.
L Kenilworth estate.
N.B.: Twelve parchment and two paper writings accompanied LXXXIX.
LXXXIX 11-12 Mar 1793. Lease and Assignment of Mortgage in Fee by George Birch (of St. Leonard's Hill, Berkshire, esq.), John Harrold (silkdyer) with his wife Mary, and John Clowes (innholder) with his wife Sarah, and Joseph Eburne [a chamberlain, 1779] to John Davies (grocer), Richard Newman Clarke (baker), Robert Bunney (mercer) et al, churchwardens, of a messuage with tanhouse and lands, Kenilworth for securing £400 plus £4% per annum interest.
XC 12 Mar 1793. Bond for performance of LXXXIX's covenants.
XCI 12 Mar 1793. Declaration by John Davies, Richard Newman Clarke, Robert Bunney et al that LXXXIX's sum consisted of £300 left by William Edwards (of Coventry, mason) to St. Michael's minister and officials for investment in public funds so that they might use the interest to provide 6d. wheaten loaves to be distributed amongst St. Michael's parishioners, not receiving alms or poor relief, after Sunday service, to a maximum of 5/6 per Sunday and the residue any New and Old Christmas Day [i.e. 25 Dec under the post-1752 calendar and 5 Jan under the old], and £100 which William Edwards left to the churchwardens for investment so that from the interest they might pay £2/10/- to the person who should, at 6.00, 18.00 and 21.00, ring the six and nine o'clock bells, the rest to the sexton and other ringers equally every Old New Year's Day [i.e. 12 Jan under the revised calendar] who, upon receipt, should ring a peal in the donor's memory.
M Radford premises.
XCII 3 Jun 1756. Conveyance whereby, for £40, Thomas Oldham (esq., alderman [silkman]) and George Secker (mercer), with his wife Margaret, all of Coventry, sold to Joseph Steane (of Whitmore Park, Coventry county [no trade]) a messuage at Radford, Holy Trinity parish, with garden and orchard (lately occupied by Elizabeth Goode, widow), bounded north by a tenement inhabited by - Deane, south by a house occupied by William Park, east by the highway to Corley and west by Lammas grounds).
N.B.: No property vested in the trustees.
N Bayley Lane premises purchased by Sarah Gilbert.
XCIII 30 Mar 1683. Conveyance, for £35, by William Robinson (of Coventry, carpenter) to Sarah Gilbert (of Coventry, widow) of a messuage which he had built on the [southern] side of Bayley Lane between that occupied by Jane Beardesley on the south and St. Michael's churchyard on the north, then being held by - Perkins or his wife Ann.
N.B.: No property [vested] in the feoffees.
O Broadgate.
N.B.: "Also 6 old parchments relating to these records." [i.e. noted by the abstractor; not in this collection.]
XCIV 8 Oct 1602. Conveyance, for £18, by John Foleshill alias Sparry to John Moore [clothworker], Richard Bancks [tailor], Christopher Wharton [draper], Richard Pyke [draper] and William Smith [a sheriff, 1624] [churchwardens] of a messuage near Broadgate occupied by William Hickman [a St. Michael's churchwarden, 1603].
XCV 20 May 1637. Feoffment whereby, having recited that XCIV was executed as a trust for the church's use, therefore John Moore and Richard Bancks enfeoffed Abel Butler [a St. Michael's churchwarden, 1637], Lewis Million [clothier] et al, St. Michael's parishioners, with the premises so that they might devote the rents to the church's use; re-enfeoffment when the feoffees were down to four.
P Cappers' Company's St. Thomas' Chapel adjoining St. Michael's church.
XCVI 24 Mar 1630 ["1629" altered from "1622"]. Deed Poll whereby for £15 William Pywall and Roger Fisher, Cappers' Company masters, and Edward Owen (capper) sold to St. Michael's parishioners St. Thomas' chapel which adjoined St. Michael's church.
Q Two acres at Kenilworth.
XCVII "15 Henry VI" [1436-37]. Conveyance by Alexander Garsdaile alias Askmaker of Kenilworth to John Barrow and his wife Juliana of 2a. within the Duke of Lancaster's lordship, lying between the king's wood called Lefryth and John White's land, extending from Stokestile path to Bayley Lane, Kenilworth.
XCVIII 30 Henry VI [1451-52]. Conveyance of the premises [by whom not shown] to Roger Holtyng of "Berry Coat" [Bericote].
R Foleshill.
XCIX 26 Feb 1685. Will of Joseph Chambers [clothier] which left the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty his two closes in Foleshill worth £7 per annum so that they might use the rents for repair of "the stately fabrick" of St. Michael's, along with a moiety of the "George" [,Fleet Street] so as to devote the normally 7/- per annum annual rent to poor relief in St. Michael's parish with especial regard to Jordan Well Ward.
S Donations.
C 27 Apr 1523. Will of William Cook (of Coventry, Calais staple mercant) which bequeathed to Thomas White (of Coventry, fishmonger) et al a house next to [St. Mary's Hall] called "Cyrock [Syrcocks'] Tavern" for payment of the rents to St. Michael's churchwardens so that mass might be heard yearly on the day of his burial and 3/4 distributed the following day.
CI 6 Mar 1570. Will of William Hopkins [draper] which bequeathed to the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty a house on the western side of Little Park Street for payment of 20/- for the preaching of three sermons in St. Michael's or any church within Coventry every year.
CII 1590. Will of Thomas Nicholls [draper] which gave 20/- per annum rents from a Much Park Street house (inhabited by Thomas Dixon) towards the church's repair.
CIII 28 Feb 1631. Will of James Harwell [cf. BA/D/AR/1/1] which appointed his executor William [recte Simon] Norton (gentleman) [draper] to pay the city poor £20, and to lay out another £20 in purchase of lands worth 20/- per annum to enable preaching of sermons annually in St. Michael's on [25 Jul, 24 Aug and 24 Feb].
N.B.: This did not effect until after [Simon] Norton had died, when the testator's [mercer-]brother Henry added £15 and [Simon] Norton's executors allowed £5, to all of which [the mercer] John Clarke added a further £5, totalling £65.
CIV 18 Nov 1641. Settlement whereby for £65 the corporation settled Priors Orchard for service of the charity and covenanted with Henry Harwell, John Clarke and [Simon] Norton's executors to bestow yearly fifty dozen of wheaten bread upon St. Michael's poor (twenty dozen on 24 Feb, fifteen dozen on 25 Jul and fifteen dozen on 24 Aug) and pay "some able divine" 20/- per annum, equally divided, to preach the sermons on those three days.
CV 28 Jul 1634. Will of Thomas Jesson [see PA16/2 fols. 10 recto, 33 recto - 36 recto (fols. "64" - "67") for the will] which left the corporation £2,000 for purchase of lands so that £100 of the annual rents might be used for distribution of £2-worth of bread to the poor every [21 Dec] after divine service in St. Michael's, 4/- - worth of bread every Sunday similarly, £6 per annum for the mayor's choice of clergyman if that man preached every Wednesday (by default being divided amongst twelve poor people of Little Park Street Ward [there was not such a ward]), £2 to the vicar for a [23 Dec] sermon, and 15/- to the churchwardens for cakes and ale every [21 Dec].
CVI 2 Jul 1641. Will of Simon Norton [dyer] which entrusted [the draper] Sampson Hopkins (mayor), [the clothier] Henry Million et al with a messuage beyond Gosford Gate (occupied by [the clothier] John Hall), an adjoining close (farmed by Thomas Taylor) and eight cottages (formerly one tenement) in the suburbs so as to pay every [28 Oct] the vicar and churchwardens £10 to buy 200 dozen of wheaten bread for distribution to the poor of four dozen every Sunday before morning prayer, abating only eight dozen during the year at their discretion, devoting residuary profits to purchase of waistcoats and smocks for poor widows and cloth for clothing poor children within the city.
CVII 30 May 1668. Will of Richard Lee [for whom, see BA/A/G/26/1-3] which left a quarter of the yearly rent of a tenement (occupied by John Finis), which he had bought from [the clothier] Francis Bowater, so that his overseers F. "Bewdley" [a prominent family at that time was called Beardesley] and [the clothier] Michael Parker and the St. Michael's minister and churchwardens should give the money to one widow [living] "between Mr. Jessons' House and the Gate", or by default a widow in Little Park Street Ward [sic].
CVIII 9 Jan 1684. Will of Humphrey Burton, Town Clerk, which gave the corporation £20 so that it might bestow 8/- yearly on bread for distribution in St. Michael's church to make up the testator's father-in-law Mr. Simon Norton's four dozen per week.
CIX Jun 1714. Will of Mrs. Elizabeth Wright which entrusted Mr. Samuel Walker [mercer] and his wife Hannah for life with Taylors Meadow and a barn at West Bromwich, Staffordshire (tenanted by Mrs. Newry), then to Thomas Armstead [a Holy Trinity churchwarden, 1713] and [the apothecary] Thomas Bott so that during the residue of a thousand-year term they might allow St. Michael's and Holy Trinity vicars to lease out the land, from the profits giving twelve poor female churchgoers 25/- each 4 Oct to buy a warm gown, a linsey petticoat and a pair of shoes, but, if there were not enough money for all the shoes, that money should be divided between six more such women; the vicars should share any overall surplus.
T Little Park Street premises.
CX 4 Apr 1793. Lease by St. Michael's feoffees to Joseph Carter, sexton, of a messuage (divided into three) on the eastern side of Little Park Street near St. John's Street or Dead Lane (successively inhabited by William Witherley, Richard Hall and then Joseph Carter and his undertenants) from 29 Sep 1790 [sic] for 21 years at £3/16/- per annum.
[Margination: no title deeds.]
U Broadgate premises.
CXI [4 Apr 1793.] Lease by [St. Michael's feoffees] to Sarah Hitchens (of Broadgate, Coventry, widow) of Broadgate premises for 21 years from 25 Mar 1789 [sic] [no rent].
Unsigned.
[Margination: no title deeds.]
V Mill Lane.
CXII 12 Jul 1793. Lease by St. Michael's vicar and churchwardens to William South of Coventry of D's premises for 21 years at £8 per annum.
W Gosford Street.
CXIII 11 Mar 1777. Lease by St. Michael's churchwardens and overseers to Christopher Jackson (of Coventry, carpenter) of B's premises for 42 years at £10 per annum.
X Kenilworth.
As Q with an observation which implies that the land was never part of the St. Michael's estate.