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Under-Sheriff of Coventry for 25 years: Town Clerk 1812-36 (therefore Clerk of the Peace for the city and county of the city of Coventry (CCA/2/3/110/23(endorsement); CCA/2/3/399/1; CCA/2/3/400/1). registrar of admissions of freemen (PA219/4/16-18: PA295/48/111: PA272/1: PA299), clerk to the street-commissioners and to the collectors of assessed taxes); ejected under the Municipal Corporations Act, Carter (whose opposition to reform can be seen as far as the charities are concerned at PA101/136/2ff) gained his revenge by successfully advocating the merger of Coventry's county status within Warwickshire, 1839-42 (cf. PA96/61/15: PA468/6/1/2,3) - it was suspected that Carter harboured Henry VI's charter which made Coventry a county (1451), but the document has never been found. Carter (who resembles Mr. Hawley, one of "Middlemarch"'s less attractive characters) died on 28th. Dec., 1848. See PA101/1/41-44; PA101/8/22,194,804; PA101/9/55-56; PA101/11/573,997; PA101/12/3; PA101/143/1,2,25 (for his trusteeship of Edwards' Charity): PA317/6: PA328/7: PA346/56,67: PA206/4/1; PA206/8: PA202/1/25,26.VXII; PA202/9/5; PA202/16/10: PA242/2/1.XIV; PA242/4/22; PA242/7/1: PA221/3/78-80; PA221/4/10: PA50/1: PA115/30: PA171/14/11: PA444/1 fols. 1,2: PA14: PA17/18/34; PA17/61/2; PA17/76 passim: PA560/1: BA/A/G/12/19,20; BA/A/G/24/31: PA56/139/23: PA468/1/2/12: PA491/21/6.III. In 1826 he was a trustee of Thomas Cross' purchase of Great Heath cottages - see PA221/2/18-19. In 1839 Carter was a trustee of Jane Herbert's will - see PA65/2 - and so a lay impropriator of Foleshill tithes (see PA1728/1). PA186 refers to the charter case and involves Carter. Stoke Aldermoor's Carter Road is eponymous. Coroner, 1812-35, he had been described as "junior" when a chamberlain in 1795. Carter was in 1802 corporation attorney against the admission of Edward Soden to the council (PA22/8/6: BA/F/G/12/1,2). Carter owned Pinley House, 1809-46 (see PA242/2/58: PA216/1/1-20: BA/D/A/47/45.XLIV). He also owned a field near Barkers Butts Lane called Conduit Meadow from 1796 until he died (PA216/1/26: PA56/80/36-49 passim). See PA238/4 for a list of deeds respecting Lythall's Case whence arose the destruction of the county of the city of Coventry. For Lythall's Case, the main fonds is BA/F/B. For the firm, see BA/F/O/2/1: PA54/251/2 (1839 - Carter, Son & Kerr); PA54/312/1; PA54/359/1: PA56/65/2,4; PA56/86/7-17 passim; PA56/111/5; PA468/5/15/1. Carter acted as an attorney to deliver seisin - see BA/A/D/86/1: BA/B/P/167/2; BA/B/P/426/1. He was mortgage-assignee for a West Orchard/Cross Cheaping cornerhouse (1843 - BA/A/G/26/72), trustee for John Williamson's purchase of the "George" at Gosford Bars (1802 - BA/D/H/14/15) and a little tenement next to St. Mary's Hall (1804 - PA56/30/13-14), and was Viscount Hood's agent (1837-39: BA/D/A/47/46.XV,XVI,XXXV). Carter occupied Barbars Close, Butts, c.1819 - see PA436/5/33-35: PA500/126/1. He attended council meetings, 1795 - 1816, 1821-26, 1831, 1834. Carter was mortgage-assignee for Harnall land, 1809-17 - see PA484/1.IV,VII: PA56/64/3.III,VI, of some of which he was trustee, 1820 (PA56/64/3.XV: PA491/28/1.XIII). Of Little Park St. (1830). PA54/261 shows how in 1838 Carter hoped his son could retain a scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford. With his partner Richard Dewes, Carter was involved in sale of the "Unicorn" and other Cross Cheaping property (CCA/2/3/179/34-35,48: PA1681/27/1.LIX,LX). He was trustee for the purchase by James Hewitt, third Viscount Lifford (q.v.) of Lord's Wood, Corley, Warwickshire in 1843 (PA1681/44/1). Carter was a trustee to prevent dower from woodland in Corley and Allesley parishes, Warwickshire, 1810-12 (PA1681/47/1.I). Mortgage trustee for the "New Inn", Exhall, 1825 (PA56/9/4.V,VI). A trustee of Reverend Jonathan Edmonds (q.v.), 1798 - 1805 (PA56/35/14,15). On the commissions for Joseph Troughton, Charles Atkins Newcomb and James and Bryan Troughton, bankrupt bankers, 1821 (PA56/48/1.XIII); Thomas Ryley, dyer, 1831 (PA56/92/38.XX). Carter was trustee for Yardley Clarke's purchase of three-quarters of Highfield, Butts (1792 - PA56/93/18-19; called "junior") See PA56/116/25-27 (1798); PA56/127/1.XII (proposed as a charity trustee by the unreformed corporation in 1836). See PA56/122/4 for his interest in Fillongley, Warwickshire land, 1802. Carter was mortgage-assignee for Crabtree Close, Gosford Green, 1818-35 (PA56/138/4,6,7). Mortgage-assignee for Spon Street premises, 1813-14 (PA56/141/31-34). Carter was clerk to Wheatley's Charity (see PA468/4/5/3). He was involved in the defence of common rights in 1844 - see PA468/5/16/3. Qua Billing's Charity trustee, see PA489/4/47/25 (1827). Qua corporation attorney, see PA2297/2/3 (1796). See PA491/20/7.XXX; PA491/94/4: PA1023/10,11. In 1826 Carter became trustee for the appointment of Benjamin Ginn and Edward Reynolds (qq.v.) to administer land at Little Poddy Croft and Smithford Street (PA491/27/28-29). For Carter's interest in Mill Lane, Much Park Street and Dead Lane premises, 1822-35, see CCA/2/3/430/35: PA491/81/5.VI,VIII. Having land nearby (vide supra), it was probably this John Carter who owned part of Barbars Close (PA491/84/1). As trustee for Cross Cheaping premises, 1808-40, see CCA/2/3/212/73.II,V; for some at Walsgrave, 1819, see CCA/2/3/111/22; as trustee and mortgagee for a Great Butcher Row messuage, 1809-29, see CCA/2/3/129/35-36,42.XVII,XXVII. As a commissioner to hear married women's acknowledgement of deeds, see CCA/2/3/19/39; CCA/2/3/34/75; CCA/2/3/211/65; CCA/2/3/276/16; CCA/2/3/472/20. A commissioner for the bankruptcy of the baker William Denston (q.v.), 1793 - see CCA/2/3/170/23. Mortgage-assignee for Smithford Street messuages, 1816 - see CCA/2/3/167/35-40 passim. For Carter's dealings with the Westons who owned Mill Lane property, 1820, see CCA/2/3/430/13. In 1808 Carter was assignee for the benefit of the miller Richard Hewitt (q.v.)'s creditors - see CCA/2/3/237/15-16. For the firm in his time, see CCA/2/3/109/19; CCA/2/3/140/24,26; CCA/2/3/164/27; CCA/2/3/223/6; CA/2/3/313/12; CCA/2/3/440/49,50; CCA/2/3/497/9; CCA/2/3/595/21: PA811/2/29. He owned three little Earl's Mill Lane cottages, 1806-09 - see CCA/2/3/912/13-16. As trustee for the grocer Jeremiah Goodall (q.v.)'s enjoyment of Well Street property, 1802, see CCA/2/3/19/29-30. Cf. CCA/2/3/380/40. Carter was mortgage-assignee for part of the "White Lion", Smithford Street, 1815-27 - see CCA/2/3/1/25-26,35-36. He was mortgage-assignee for a Dead Lane messuage, 1828 - see CCA/2/3/469/29. PA2409/2/10/7/3 maintains that John was brother of the gaoler Samuel and uncle of the solicitor and Member of Parliament Samuel. CCA/2/3/432/8 shows that in 1829 Carter was trustee for the coaldealer Joseph Jackson(q.v.)'s purchase of Bishop Street houses. As mortgage-assignee for Saint Michael's Churchyard messuages, 1795 (when described as "junior") to 1813, see CCA/2/3/446/9,15-16. PA704/91/11 is Carter's deputation for appointment as steward of the corporation's manors in 1813. For Carter's involvement in the resale of land not needed to lay down Hertford Street, 1815, see CCA/2/3/458/20.I.