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PA101/138/1
15 Oct 1625
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
By Richard Butler (alderman and vintner), Christopher Davenport (alderman and pewterer), Matthew Collyns (alderman and draper) and Henry Smyth (son of Richard Smyth, vintner, deceased), all of Coventry and survivng feoffees for Whealtley's lands, of Henry Davenport, John Barker, Samuel Myles and Henry Harwell (all aldermen), Isaac Walden (draper), John Pixley (clothier), Thomas Potter (dyer), John Thomas (mercer), William Burbage (baker), Ralph Walden (haberdasher), Henry Million (clothier), John Clarke (mercer) and Thomas Ward (clothier), all of Coventry, with (a) Packington manor (at Little Packington alias Packington Piggott, Warwickshire) and its lands, (b) a tenement (with garden) called the "George" (lately held by John Bailiff) near Gosford bars (now held by William Hopkins, gentleman) with two cottages and crofts, (c) a Much Park Street messuage (lately tenanted by John Sibthorpe but now by John Million),(d) three Werst Orchard houses (once inhabited by Thomas Warren, Alice Johnson and Clement Higford; but now by Thomas Walker, John Kempe anf Thomas Bauldwyn), (e) a Cross Cheaping tenement (lately leased to Richard Streete but now to Paul Emerson), (f) eight Ironmonger Row houses (occupied by Edward Harrington, Richard Kilbee, Richard Crooke, Thomas Howton and Thomas Walker), (g) four messuages on the western side of Ironmonger Row (inhahited by John Johnson), (h) a house at the end of Palmer Lane (in succession formerly held by Ralph Profitt, Thomas Barker and John Petcher), (i) two tenements and two shops (lately occupied by George Oke, John Lilly, John Higford and John Oughton) in the Bull Ring (now let to Christopher Killingley, William Berke, Margaret Portman and William Cooke), (j) a Fleet Street house (once used by John Tillman but now by Humphrey Smallwood, alderman) adjoinnig the street's West Orchard end, (k) Pooleyard Close (farmed by Henry Smythk alderman), (l) a barn and two closes at Hill Street (lately held by John Rampton but now by Gilbert Walden) and Elizabeth Walker, widow), (m) "Crampers Feild" close (lately leased to William Sewall), (n) "Little Conduit Feild" and four selions in "Shooters Feild" (lately farmed by Thomas Arnold; now Benjamin Charlton has the close and Mary "Arnholl" (widow) the selions), (o) land near Barkers Butts (rented by Christian Barker, widow) and all other lands for which Richard Smyth and John Davenport (late of Coventry, tanner) were survivIng feoffees (and which they conveyed to R. Butler et al and others by a 19 Jun 1605 indenture) under a deed made by Thomas Wheatley with them on 7 Apr 1563.
15 Oct 1625. Letter of Attorney [atttached to the main deed] appointing Humphrey Burton to deliver seisin.
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