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C.1837. The testator, having stipulated burial in the family vault in Stoneleigh church, entrusts a £40 rentcharge to Robert Bunney [III] and R[ichard] K[evitt] Rotherham (of Coventry, esquires) to be paid half-yearly to his daughter Catherine Hancock Phillips for life; he makes similar provisons for his daughters Helen Phillips, Augusta Hook Phillips and Maria Louisa Catherine Phillips for their own uses - all these annuities are payable from the testator's Whitmore Hall estate (let to Joseph Moggs), part of which descended to the testator as nephew of the intestate Edward Phillips [I] (who had received it as heir of his intestate brother Joseph Phillips [I], alderman) whilst the rest had been bought from Reverend Thomas Sheepshanks; the testator devises his Whitmore Park estate to hs son Edward [III] (being entrusted to Thomas Rotherham and William Rotherham (of Coventry, gentlemen)) with remainder to his issue and the testator's other sons (and their issue) in order of seniority (the younger sons are William Phillips [II], Frederick Joseph Phillips, Thomas Rotherham Phillips, Alfred Phillips, Joseph Phillips [II] and George Septimus Phillips): to Edward [III] will go a farm in the parishes of Corley and Bedworth, Warwickshire (occupied by George Walter Jones Canwell and inherited via Edward [I]): to William [II] will pass (a) a messuage and malthouse, etc. at Well Street, Coventry (part inherited from the testator's father William Phillips [I], the rest bought from the bankrupt Samuel Crossby); (b) "The Pilgrim" inn, Ironmonger Row, Coventry, occupied by Thomas Farr, which was built on the site of a malthouse called "Pilgrim's Rest" inherited from William [I], and supposedly mediaeval; and (c) 2a. 0r. 8p. at Radford, Coventry, occupied by Thomas Coillier and inherited from Joseph Phillips [I] via Edward [I]: to Frederick Joseph will descend (a) a messuage at Coundon, Warwickshire (occupied by John Rotherham Sammons), partly inherited from William [I] but the rest bought from Thomas Eagle with whom the testator served his apprenticeship; and (b) a Radford messuage (occupied by Lambert Horsfall) inherited from Joseph [I] via Edward [I]: to Thomas Rotherham (Phillips) are devised (a) property at Berkswell, Warwickshire (occupied by William Wilkinson) with a close there farmed by William Brown (bought from Thomas Rotherham's devisees); and (b) three messuages at Spon End, Saint John Baptist's parish, Coventry (occupied by Catherine Patrick (widow), William Lines and Willliam Edwards), one being called "The Punch Bowl" and all bought from James Swaine et al: to Alred are assigned (a) "The Falcon" inn on the northern side of Well Street (let to William Tidmarsh) with an adjacent tenement (built by the testator on the site of a stable which had belonged to the inn) inhabited by Willliam Wormald and inherited from William Phillips [I]; (b) two messuages on the northern side of Well Street (occupied by George Francis and George Townsend, and bought from, the late Jeremiah Goodall); (c) two Palmer Lane messuages (let to Elizabeth Ward, widow and John Knight) built by William [I] on the site of a stable bought fro William Morris; and (d) "The Balll" inn in Bishop Street and Rood Lane, occupied by Thomas Elton and inherited from Joseph [I] via Edward [I]: to Joseph [II] are consigned four messauges and two malthouses, etc. in Bishop Street (occupied by Nathaniel Lawrence, Spiers Godson, John Pickard and - Hewson, they were inherited from Joseph [I] via Edward [I]): and to George Septimus are promised (a) a Gosford Street house occupied by John Gaskings and bought from Samuel Gittings; (b) the "Black Swan" inn, Spon Street (tenanted by William Wall) with double privies (enjoyed by Samuel Vale, glazier or his tenants and bought from - Lees); (c) the "Black Prince", Much Park Street (occupied by Charles Thomas and inherited from William [I]); and (d) three messuages at Keresley, Saint Michae'ls parish [Keresley did not become an ecclesiastical parish (with Coundon) until 1848] (let to Charles Taylor, - Arnott and William Bonham; part had been the recoiry) with the right of common which the rectory house had over a 24a.-close called Scots Hill [hence The Scotchill road near Keresley Heath] or Scotshill (- Lamb's property) which descended from Joseph [I] via Edward [I], subject to a 1/- per annum rentcharge to The Queen's College, Oxford: portions of more junior sons dying without issue will go to Joseph [II]; if he dies, his lands (and any inherited from his brothers T.R., A. and G.S.) will go to Frederick Joseph; household goods will be taken by William [II] (except for any which the testator specifies for his other children), together with Edward [II]'s carriage, watch and patent of arms; ready money will be divided equally amongst the children and their issue; Edward [III], William [II] and Frederick Joseph are named executors. [Preparatory notes.]