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 NEW MUNIMENT-ROOM OF ST. MARY'S HALL, 
 
 MADE AND EDITED 
 
 FOR THE C0RP0F[AT10N OF THE CITY OF COVENTRY, 
 
 BT 
 
 JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON, 
 
 B.A. Oxott., Barrister-at-Law oj the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, 
 
 and one of the Inspectors of Ancient Writings for Her Majesty's 
 
 Cotmnissioners of Historical Manuscripts. 
 
 18 9 6 A.D. 
 
 PRINTED AT THE HERALD OFFICE, 41, EARL STREET.
 
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 I» H^ E F" ^^ C E . 
 
 I travelled to Coventry on 18th February, 1895, the day on which long and 
 severe frost began to break, and I remained in the old city for thirteen consecutive 
 weeks, working upon the archives of the Corjioration, — recovering them fi'om 
 confusion, reducing them to chronological order, attaching descriptive labels to 
 most of the books and the more important of the separate writings, moving the 
 multifarious records to the beautiful New Muniment Room of St. Mary's Hall, 
 and producing in rough draft the Catalogue, that after undergoing careful revision 
 is now offered in print to general readers and special students. The work of re- 
 ordering and cataloguing so large a body of writings would have occupied me for 
 a much longer time, had not Mr. Browett, senior, the late Town Clerk of Coventry, 
 a fine antiquary and Master of Manuscripts, expended much care some years since 
 in classifying an enormous mass of old bills and miscellaneous papers, and binding 
 them into volumes. 
 
 But it may not be inferred that the present arrangement of the Coventry 
 Muniments is in eveiy particular the same arrangement in which I left them on 
 withdrawing from Warwickshire, or that I am the only person to be commended 
 for what is meritorious in the present catalogue, albeit I am the only person to be 
 censured for any defects that may be discovei'ed in its entries. Itesembling his 
 immediate official precursor in possessing unusual aptitude for archteological research, 
 and a knowledge of archaic penmanship, that is seldom possessed by custodians of 
 municipal archives, Mr. Lewis Beard, B.A., of the University of Cambridge, the 
 present Town Clerk of Coventry, has given several finishing touches to my work. 
 Acting in every matter with my concurrence and cordial approval, he has modified 
 my arrangement of the Books, and made one or two improvements in my disposition 
 of the Letters Patent, that are displayed under glass lids. It was since I left
 
 Coventry that he caused the Drawers and Cases of the Muniment Room to he 
 marked with the letters and numerals to which reference is made in the marginal 
 columns of the printed Calendar. To realize how great a part the Town Clerk has 
 taken in the preparation of the Catalogue, readers have only to take a cursory 
 view of its pages, and in doing so to bear in mind that the literary work on the 
 margms of the pages is the work of his hand. It is also my pleasant duty to 
 acknowledge the careful vigilance for clerical slips, with which the Town Clerk 
 studied the proofs of the Calendar as they came to his hands, and collated the 
 printed entries with the words on the corresponding labels on the several documents 
 and sets of documents. 
 
 My estimate of the value of Mr. Beard's part in the production of the 
 Calendar made me desirous that he would allow me the satisfaction of ainiouncing 
 on the title-page, that the work had proceeded from hinvself and myself, as joint- 
 editors ; but I failed to induce him to assent to the proposal. At this moment I 
 am well pleased with his decision on the question of literary justice and propriety, 
 as the presence of his name on the title-page would have deprived me of my present 
 and fittest occasion for acknowledging with proper warmth the great advantage that 
 came to me from his assistance. 
 
 I venture also to express my grateful sense of obligation to the gentlemen of 
 the Coventry Estates and Finance Committee — a committee consisting of Alderman 
 Tomson, Chairman ; Alderman Banks, Vice-chairman ; The Mayor ; Aldermen Gulson, 
 Hill, Read, Singer ; Councillors Andrews, Clements, Webb Fowler, Haywood, 
 Horton, Owen, and Starley ; who, besides assigning me an admirable working-room, 
 afforded me every facility and encouragement in their poAver for the performance 
 of an equally laborious and interesting task. 
 
 JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON.
 
 CATALOG U E 
 
 OP THE 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS IN THE NEW MUNIMENT ROOM 
 
 OF ST. MARY'S HALL, COVENTRY. 
 
 The large collection of manuscripts that have been recently recovered from dirt and 
 extreme confusion and been placed in good order in the new Muniment Room of St. Mary's 
 Hall may for tlie purpose of this catalogue be divided into the following group, to wit, — 
 
 A. Books, to the number of ... ... ... ... 188 volumes. 
 
 B. Charters, Letters Patent under the Privy Seal or the signet, with 
 or without the Sign Manual, and Indentures of Leases granted 
 
 by Sovereigns, to the number of ... ... ... ... 89 writings. 
 
 C. Deeds, to wit. Grants for ever, Quitclaims, Leases for Life or 
 lives in Survivorship, Leases for terms of years. Agreements, 
 Awards of Arbitrators, Testaments, Obligatory Bonds, Powers of 
 
 Attorney, &c., &c., to the number of ... ... ... 626-5 writings. 
 
 D. E.^emplifications of Curial Records, especially interesting Writs 
 and Lettei's of Commission 7iot being Letters Patent dated by 
 
 Sovereigns, to the number of ... ... ... ... 10 writings. 
 
 E. Rolls and Files, to the number of ... ... ... ... 18 sets. 
 
 F. Miscellaneous Matters, put away in ... ... ... 30 packets. 
 
 As several of the largest books are only so many more collections of separate writings 
 that were gathered together and bound into their respective covers in the middle of the present 
 century — as a single tile holds no less than 118 Statute Merchant Rolls, and as several of the 
 packets of " Miscellaneous Matters " contain in each packet from 50 to over 100 separate 
 writings — the number of MSS. in the Muniment Rojm that still are, or were some ,50 or 60 
 years since, separate writings, may on a cautious and moderate computation be said to exceed 
 11,000. 
 
 The ensuing catalogue of this lai-ge number of separate writings, and sets of writings, 
 consists of six several chronologically ordered catalogues — a separate catalogue having been 
 made of each of the already mentioned six groups of manuscrips, to wit, — 
 
 (i.) A Catalogue of the Books, beginning on p. 1. 
 
 (ii.) A Catalogue of the Charters and Letters Patent, &c., beginning on 
 p. 17. 
 
 (iii.) A Catalogue of the Deeds, beginning on p. 39. 
 
 (iv.) A Catalogue of the Exemplifications of Records and especially 
 interesting Writs, &c., beginning on p. 76. 
 
 (v.) A Catalogue of the Rolls and Files, beginning on p. 79. 
 
 and (vi.) A Catalogue of the Miscellaneous Matters, beginning on p. 82.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Acknowledgments ... C 217, E fi 
 
 Alienate, Licence to ... ... B 8.3 
 
 " Alleysleje " ... ... ... C 136 
 
 Apprenticeship, Indentures of ... F 2 
 
 Arch.Tological Institute ... ... A 92 
 
 Arms, &c., Laws for provision of ... B 78 
 
 Array, Commissions of ... B 78, 80, 82 
 
 Assizes at Coventry ... ... E 3 
 
 Attelbergh, Property at ... ... C 127 
 
 Attorney, Power of ... C 145, 156 
 
 Bablake (Land and Clini-rh) B 12, 5:5, 73, 8-1, F 5 
 "Bagot Waste" ... ... ... D5 
 
 "Baylly" Lane, Property in C 187, 196, 207 
 
 " Benfirlond " (tenement) ... ... C 86 
 
 Bills ... ... ... ... A 56, 62 
 
 Bishop Street, Property in, C 42, 66, 67, 104, 160 
 
 188, 228. 
 « Bobynhul," Property in 101, 103, F 5 
 " Boleford " Property at ... ... C 1.50 
 
 Bond 
 
 Boundary Suit 
 
 "Bradokes Wast" ... 
 
 Bread, Assize of 
 
 Bristowe, Wm., hia dispute w 
 
 C 203. 204, D 1, 2, E9, F 3, 4 
 
 Broadgate, Property in and near, C 55, 72, 141, 202 
 
 Burton, Notes on Edward VI. 's Charter A 13 
 
 „ Collection of Records relating to Chancery 
 
 Suit ... ... ... A 34 
 
 C 172 
 A 83, 84 
 C226 
 A 66 
 th the Corporation, 
 
 " Cardinal's Hat " Inn 
 Catherine Hall, Cambridge 
 Cesterton, Property in 
 
 Chamberlain, Office of (R. v. Banbury) F 23, 25 
 Chamberlains Books ... ... A 7 
 
 Chancery Suits, Papers in ... ... F 11 
 
 Charles, Prince, Action by against Corporation, A 34 
 Charities, various, A 12, 22, 67, 69. 74, 76, F 17 
 20, 23. 
 Sir T. White's, A 12, 65, 74, 76, E 13 
 F 18 
 „ Bablake or Bond's, A 15, 59, 60, B 53 
 
 78, 83, C 222, F 27. 
 „ Grey Friars or Pisford's ... A 38 
 
 „ Collin's ... ... ... A 58 
 
 „ .lesson's ... ... ... A 69 
 
 „ General ... ... ... A 75, 82 
 
 Chesterfield, Guild of St. Mary ... C 201 
 
 Cheylcsmore, Manor of, A 9, B 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 
 
 19. 21, 57, 64, 72, 81, C 181, 200, 212 
 
 E 13, 16, F 12, 20, 21 
 
 Cheylesmore Street or Lane, Property in, C 7, 62 
 
 84,98,99,100, 109, 110, 121, 125, 129 
 
 134, 143. 
 
 " Chiltenfeld " ... ... ... C 184 
 
 Churchwardens and Overseers ... F 16 
 
 C 202 
 F24 
 28 
 
 Cloth Manufacture 
 Committees' Reports, &c. 
 Commons, Siu-vey of 
 Companies — 
 
 Carpenters' ... 
 
 Cordwainers' 
 
 Drapers' 
 
 Mercers' 
 
 Tailors' 
 Concords 
 Conduit, Agreement for Repair 
 
 B 77, C 220 
 
 A 81, 8.5, 87, 88, 89 
 E 7 
 
 A 4, 5, 44, F 10 
 
 A 41 
 
 A 51 
 
 C 225 
 
 A 42, 50 
 
 F 1 
 
 C 227
 
 Constables, Presentments 
 
 A 33 
 
 „ Warrants 
 
 F 19 
 
 Corley Moor 
 
 C 221 
 
 Corporation Cl;arters aiul Letters Patent — 
 
 RalpL, Earl of Chester 
 
 B 1 
 
 Henry TI. ... 
 
 B 2, F 26 
 
 Edwarilll. ... 
 
 B 4 
 
 Isabella 
 
 B 14 
 
 Edwanl III, ... B 7 
 
 ,ft. 11, 16, 17,21,22 
 
 Richard II, ... 
 
 B 24, 31 
 
 Henry IV. ... 
 
 B 35 
 
 „ V. ... 
 
 B38 
 
 „ VI. ... 
 
 B47, 48 
 
 Edward IV. ... 
 
 B 50 
 
 Henry VII. ... 
 
 B 52 
 
 Henry VIII. ... 
 
 ... B 55,68 
 
 Edward VI. ... 
 
 .. A13, 26, 28, 37 
 
 Charles II. ... 
 
 ... B 87, 88 
 
 William IV. 
 
 B89 
 
 Corporation Lands — 
 
 
 Surveys an I Terriers 
 
 .. A 24, 32, 64, E 14 
 
 Rentals ■ . 
 
 A 29, 57, 61 
 
 Leases 
 
 .. A 29, 57, 64. 71 
 
 Ledger of 
 
 ... A 55, 57 
 
 Licences in Mortmain 
 
 B 29, 39, 42, 45 
 
 Rents out of 
 
 B 67 
 
 Council Minute Books 
 
 A 14 
 
 Coventry, Fee Farm of 
 
 B70 
 
 „ History of A 1 
 
 0, 37, 43, 48, F 8, 20 
 
 „ Court Books 
 
 A 25 
 
 „ Rights and Privile 
 7, F 15. 
 Cross Cheaping, Property in 
 
 2;es, A 26, C 181, D 6, 
 
 C 165, 183 
 
 Crowenhull, Property in 
 
 C 41 
 
 " Crown " Inn 
 
 C 202 
 
 Cnndelinc, or Connduline {'. 
 
 Coundon), Property 
 
 in, C 20, 26, 27, 39, 
 
 41, 88, 113, 117, 124 
 
 126, 136, 156, 216, I 
 
 ) 4. 
 
 Currency 
 
 B 54 
 
 Debts, &('.. 
 
 A 8 
 
 Deeds, Registers of 
 
 A 2, 45, 46 
 
 Deputy Lieuteuants 
 
 D9, 10 
 
 "Dodemanswell," Property at ... C 136 
 
 Dog Lane, Property in ... ... C 160 
 
 " Drapery, the Groat " ... C 194, 195 
 
 Earl Street, Property in, B 74, C 21, 50, 59. 61 69 
 
 83, 90, 141, 144, 145, 151, 163, 161, 191. 
 Eccleshale, Manor of ... ... B 81 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, Address to ... F 9 
 
 '• Euedemedowe " ... ... ... C 12 
 
 " Erlesmyll Laue," Property in ... C 208 
 
 Eton (? Nuneaton), Property at ... C 127 
 
 E.Kchequer quietuses ... ... Ell 
 
 Fair, Great ... ... ... B 21, 48 
 
 Fee Farm, Grants in, A 19, B 26, C 17, 18, 33, 42 
 
 138, 147, 164, 175. 
 Fillongloy, Property in ... C 214, 215, 224 
 
 Fillongley Manor ... C 218, 223, 224, E 10 
 
 "Folewell" ... ... ... C 136 
 
 Foleshill (Foxhill), Land at ... B 81, C 182, D 4 
 Forms, Books of ... ... ... A 52, 72 
 
 Fountain Street, Property in, (? Well Street, see 
 
 C 114), C 31,63, 114, 
 Frankland Fellowship ... ... F 24 
 
 Frankpledge, View of ... B 21, C 20, E 5 
 
 Freedom of the City ... A 63, E 17, 18 
 
 "Frechbroke " the. Property near ... C 158 
 Frere Lane, (or Friar'.s Lane), Property in, C 108 
 
 135, 147. 
 
 Gas Company ... ... ... A 90 
 
 Gosford Street, &c.. Property in and near, C 13, 16 
 33, 35, 46, 64, 80, lis, 120, 157, 176, 225 
 F22. 
 Grey Friars' Hospital ... ... A 38 
 
 Guilds and Chantries, A 21, B 5, 35, 38, 40, 41 
 43, 47, 75, E 13, F 18. 
 Corpus Christi, A 6, B 20, 25, 27, 75, C 177 
 
 178, 179, 206. 
 Merchants ... ... ... B 6 
 
 St. John ... B 9. 12, C 159, 165 
 
 St. Kathorine ... ... ... B 10 
 
 Holy Trinity B 23
 
 Holy Triiiily, 15. V. M. and S(, Joim Baplifl, 
 B 28, 30, 32, 3;?, 36, 41, 19, o3, .56, 75 
 C 180, 182, 183, IS.J, 187, 188, 191, I9.J 
 196, 198, 201, 200, 207, 208, 210, E 8. 
 
 St. Anne (unlicensed) 
 
 St. George (do.) 
 
 Nativity 
 
 St. Nielioliis 
 
 St. Mary 
 
 •' Sclotoschaniitery " 
 Gutters, Agreements for 
 " Gylyard " The, Property in 
 
 C 148, 
 
 ... 1$ 10, 41 
 
 B 43 
 
 li 4(), 63, 76 
 
 C 206, 210 
 
 1.53, 1.59. 16-5 
 
 C 199 
 
 (J 11.5, 137 
 
 C 207 
 
 Harnall, Property at and near, C 4.5, o.*?, 60, 79, 92 
 
 128, 141. 
 
 Hawksbury Coal Minos ... ... F 13, 14 
 
 Hinekley, Property at ... ... C 127 
 
 Ilonsc of Correction ... ... C 224 
 
 •• Hull " Street, Property in ... C 47, 184, 189 
 
 " Hylmylfeld," The ... ... C 197 
 
 Inquests post mortem 
 
 Inquisitions — 
 
 Gates and Bridges 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 Keresley, Property at 
 
 A 1 
 
 B 31 
 
 B 71, 78, C 221 
 
 C 192, D 4 
 
 Lammas and Common Lands ... E 18 
 
 Leases, Registers, &c. A 19, 29, o7, 64, 71 
 
 Leet Books ... ... ... A3 
 
 Letters and Papers, Original ... ... A 79 
 
 Loans, Charitable ... ... ... A 12, 76 
 
 Loans to the King ... B 58, 59, 60, 85, F 5 
 
 Local Board of Health Minute Books ... A 86 
 
 ,, Inspector's Kcports A 91 
 
 '• Lodeloweslane," Property near ... C 131 
 
 Maintenance, Agreement for ... C 123 
 
 Market ... ... ... B 21 
 
 Market, Property iu the ... C 40, 52 
 
 Margaret, Couutcse of Richmond ... F 26 
 
 " Mcalu and Come " 
 Mills 
 
 Ministers' Kaic 
 "Muryholt" (held) 
 Murage 
 
 Newgate, Land near 
 New Pool, the 
 
 Ubites, Agreement for 
 Orehird, The Great and Little 
 
 ... 
 
 
 ... 
 
 A 27 
 
 ... C 38, 
 
 68 
 
 111, E 1 
 
 ... 
 
 
 
 A 40 
 
 
 
 
 C 184 
 
 A 39, 
 
 B 42, 
 
 45, C 209 
 
 
 
 
 C 229 
 
 
 
 
 B 65 
 C210 
 
 lo 
 
 
 
 B65 
 
 Palmer Lane, Property in ... ... C 170 
 
 Papers, Miscellaneous ... F 8, 20, 30 
 
 Park Street, Upper, ifec.. Property in, C 8, 17, 23 
 
 37, 43, 51, 57, 70, 73, 74, 76, 81, 91, 96 
 
 97, 102, 106, 107, 11.5, 119. 138, 139, 141 
 
 142, 146, 148, 153. 161, 169, 184, 19.3, 198 
 
 230, 232 
 
 Party Walls, Agreenient.s for C 115, 137 
 
 Payments, Book of ... ... A 16 
 
 Peter the Les.s, Property in the Street of C 132 
 Pinley, Property at ... ... C 128 
 
 Poddyeroft, Property in C 8.5, 219, E 1, F 21 
 
 Poor Inhabitants, Petition of ... F 26 
 
 Prints, Portfolio of ... ... F 29 
 
 Priory, B 3, 34, 37, G5, 66, C 20, 22, 26, 41, 56, 58 
 60,62,71,79,86,88, 116, 126, 158, 177 
 186, 190, 197, 209, 216, D 5, E 2, 12, F 5 
 Property, various, in Coventry, C 15, 18, 19, 25, 
 29, 44, 48, 54, 58, 78, 82, 85, 93, 103, 105 
 126, 127, 128, 131, 149, 152, 154, 157, 
 159, 162, 166, 167, 173, 174, 213, 231 
 D 4, E 1, F 5. 
 " Pudiugcroftc," Little ... ... C 219 
 
 Radford, Property in, C 39, 95, 126, 128, 133, D 4 
 
 E 1. 
 Receipts, Books of ... A 17, 18, 20 
 
 Rentals, &c., ... A 8, 11, 29, 57, 61, E 13 
 
 Retainers ... ••- ••• B 51
 
 iv 
 
 Riots 
 
 A 49, B 62 
 
 „ (R. V. Goodall) 
 
 F 23 
 
 Road Trustees 
 
 A 73 
 
 "Ruydinges," The... 
 
 D5 
 
 Rytou, Property at 
 
 F 
 
 Sacrament Certificates 
 
 A 53, F 5 
 
 " Scbocherefeld," Property in 
 
 C So 
 
 School Lands, llentiils 
 
 E13 
 
 Sessions of Peace ... 
 
 ... A 47, E 4 
 
 Sheriff's Court 
 
 A 54 
 
 Ship Money 
 
 A 35, D 8 
 
 Smitliford Street, Property in, C 94, 123, 168, 185 
 
 199, 206. 
 So we. Property at, B 3, C 9, 36, 112, 128, 190,E 2 
 Spon Street, &c.. Property in and near, C 2, 3, 5, 6 
 10, 11, 14, 30, 32, 36, 49, 62, 65, 87, 89 
 116, 122, 130, 136, 155, 156, 205. F 22. 
 St. John's College, Oxford ... F 7 
 
 St. Michael, Vicar of, &c. ... ... C 26, F 5 
 
 St. Nicholas Street, Property in ... C 126 
 
 St. Nicholas Church, Property near C 171, 186 
 Statute Merchant Rolls ... ... E 6 
 
 .Statute Bonds, &c. ... ... A 68 
 
 vStoke, Laying out of Flats ... ... A 30, 31 
 
 Stoke, Property at C 4, 24, 25, 39, 75, 77, 128 
 Stoke, Manor of ... C 200, 222. D 5, E 15 
 
 Street Commissioners ... A 70, 77, 73 
 
 Slyvechali, Property at ... C 128, F 5 
 
 Surveys and Terriers of Corporation Lauds, A 34 
 
 32, 64, E 14. 
 
 Surveys and Terriers of Stoke Lauds ... A 30 
 
 Survey of Zouch's Farm ... ... A 69 
 
 Swan's Pool, the ... ... B 65 
 
 Sword and Mace Riots ... ... A 49 
 
 Tallies ... ... ... ... F 27 
 
 Tithes ... ... A 2.3, C 216, 226 
 
 Towers ... .. C 219, 229 
 
 Treasurer's Bonks of Payments a'jd Receipts, A 17 
 
 18, 36. 
 Troun;htou Drawings ... ... F 28 
 
 Voters, List of 
 
 A 80 
 
 " Walbiuleye " (? Whoberley) C 124, 136, 156 
 Walls, City. (See also " Murage") C 219, 229 
 War Contributions B 18, 58, 59, 60, 61, 69, 86 
 
 " Wencbfeldcs " ... ... ... D5 
 
 West Orchard, Property in ... ... C 140 
 
 Whitefriars' Church ... ... F 6 
 
 Whitley, Property at ... ... C 34 
 
 Whitley Common, C 203, 204, D 1, 2, E 9, F -3, 4 
 
 Whitley Manor 
 
 " Whytemor," Property at 
 
 " Wbittawerescraft" 
 
 " Wodenmilueleye " 
 
 " Woodeude," Property at 
 
 Wykeii, Property at 
 
 " Wyndemilufeid " 
 
 D3 
 
 C 22, 58, 7 1 
 
 C 184 
 
 CSS 
 
 1.50, D 5 
 
 C 88, 190, D 5 
 
 C 184 

 
 /. BOOKS. 
 
 27 Edward I. — 16 Elizabeth. Collection of Escheators' Inquests 
 post-mortem, bound together into a cover, which is lettered 
 at the back " Inq. Post Mortem." 
 
 Henry IV. — Henry VIII. Chartulary and Deeds-Register : a vellum 
 quarto in clog-cover, containing on the opening membranes a 
 few matters of an earlier period 
 
 Leet Booiv of 
 
 Leet Books : — 
 
 (a) 8 Henry V. — 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, 
 the City of Coventre. 
 
 (b) 30th Elizabeth— 1834. Leet Book of the City of 
 Coventre : an extremely interesting book, for its exhibi- 
 tion of matters, touching the condition, industries and 
 manners of the city in the sixteenth and seventeenth 
 centuries 
 
 Temi^. Henry A^I. and Edvvai'd IV. Book of the Receipts and 
 Payments of the Masters of the Company of the Craft of 
 Carpenters in the City of Coventre 
 
 1478 — 1652. Another Book of the Receipts and Payments of 
 successive Masters of the Company of the Ciaft of Carpenters 
 in the City of Coventre. {Vide A 44 and A 67) 
 
 3 Henry VII. — 1 Mary. Yearly Accounts of successive Masters of 
 the Guild of Corpus Christi and St. Nicholas of Coventre, 
 closing with the account of Thomas Leche, bailiff of the 
 possessions of the late Guild of Corpus Christi of Coventre, for 
 one year, made on 24th November, 1 Mary. Defective in the 
 later part, this bulky folio has been bound into a modern leather 
 cover, lettered at the back " Corpus Christi and St. Nicholas 
 Guild Accounts. 3rd Henry VII., A.D. 1488 to 1st Mary, 
 A.D. 1553." 
 
 14 Henry VII — 9 Anne. Chamberlains' Books : — 
 
 (a) 14 Henry VII.— 16 Elizabeth. Book of the Yearly 
 Accounts of successive Chamberlains of the Corporation 
 of the City of Coventre. 
 
 No. of volumes 
 
 No. of 
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 Shelf No, 
 
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 No. of volumes cai'ried over 
 
 {b) 17 Elizabeth to 11 Charles I. 
 
 (c) 12 Charles I. — 9 Anne. Book of the Yearly Accounts 
 of successive Wardens and Chamberlains of the City of 
 Coventry 
 
 A 8. 1522 — 1697. Miscellaneous Writings, comprising Rentals and Bills 
 of Debts, &c., bound together in chronological disorder in a 
 modern leather cover, lettered at the back " Miscellaneous 
 Papers. Vol. 1 : Book of Debts, &c." 
 
 A 9. 1542 — 1561. Account Book of the Manor of Cheillesmore, having 
 upon the opening leaf this statement of the book's contents, to 
 wit, " Thys booke conteyneth aswell the receites of al sommes 
 of money brought in and payd to the Chambre or treasorie of 
 the Citie of Coven trie, as well by the Chamberleyns wardens and 
 all other accomptauntes of the seid citie, as otherwise, yerlie 
 ccmmyng and growing to the use of the commoinaltie or comen 
 box ot the same citie, as also dyvers charities paymentes and 
 deduccions owt of the same, and also what revenewes and 
 profittes and yerlie imposicions and charges be to the citie for 
 everie Meires tyme as hereafter in the same more plenlie may 
 appere." 
 
 A 10. 1543 — 1704. Book of Copies of miscellaneous writings, touching the 
 History of Coventre, lettered at the back of its vellum cover, 
 " MSS. City Affiairs." ... 
 
 All. 37 Henry VIH — 1566 A.D. Several Rentals bound together in 
 ■ leather cover, lettered at the back " Book of Rentals." 
 
 A 12. 1551 — 1779. Books of Loans and Allowances : — 
 
 (a) 1551 — 1704. Folio Register of payments made, by way 
 of loan or allowance, out of various estates held by the 
 Mayor and community of Coventre in Trust for charitable 
 uses, to wit, the Charity Estates of Lady Spencer, Mr. 
 Symon Parker, Mr. White of Bristowe, Mr. Willyngton, 
 Mr. John Talente, Mr. Nethermyll, Mr. Hopkyns, Mr. 
 Tompson, Mr. Over, Mr. Niccolls, Mr. Elkinton, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Sharratt, Mrs. Jane Picken, Mr. Wheatleye, 
 Mr. Haddon, Mr. Sale, Mr. Davenport and others 
 
 No. of volumes 
 
 No. of 
 Volumes. 
 
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 Book Case 
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 3 
 
 17
 
 A 13 
 
 A 14. 
 
 No. of volumes carried over 
 
 (b) 19 ]£liz;abetli — 1625 A.D. Folio Register of Loans and 
 Allowances of money made out of the estates held by the 
 Mayor and community ot Coventre for charitable uses ... 
 
 (c) 1736 — 1779. Book of Loans: Being "An Account of 
 the Loan money of Sir Thomas White, which has been 
 retained by the Corporation of Coventry since the pro- 
 nouncing of the Decree dated the twentieth day of 
 December in 1723." 
 
 6 Edwai'd VI. English Translation of r^etters Patent dated in the 
 said year, in confirmation of the ancient Liberties, &c., of ihe 
 Burgesses of Coventre, and of the Charters granting those 
 liberties : Interleaved with Burton's Notes on the successive 
 clauses of the said Letters Patent ... 
 
 1557—1858. Council Books :— 
 
 («) 1557 — 1635. Council Book : Orders and Proceedings at 
 Meetinf^s of the Town Council of Coventre ... 
 
 o 
 
 (b) 1635— 1G96. Ditto 
 
 (c) 1696—1725. Ditto 
 
 (d) 1698—1725. Ditto 
 
 (e) 1702—1722. Ditto 
 
 (/) 1722—1738. Ditto 
 
 (g) 1738—1758. Ditto 
 
 (h) 1758—1769. Ditto 
 
 (J) 1769—1780. Ditto 
 
 (k) 1780—1790. Ditto 
 
 (I) 1790—1801. Ditto 
 
 (m) 1801—1811. Ditto 
 
 (n) 1812—1819. Ditto 
 
 (o) 1818—1821. Ditto 
 [Hiatus] 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto, bound in modern leather 
 cover, lettered at back 
 " Ordei-s of Council, &c 
 1698—1725" 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 ditto 
 
 No. of volumes 
 
 l>"o. of 
 
 Volumes. 
 
 17 
 
 Book Ciuie 
 Shelf No. 
 
 1 
 
 24 
 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
 3 
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 42
 
 • No. of volumes carried over ... 
 
 Continuation of Council Books : — 
 
 (p) 1826 — 1830. Council Book : Orders and Proceedings at 
 
 Meetings of the Town 
 Council 
 
 (q) 1830—1833. Ditto 
 
 (r) 1833—1835. Ditto 
 
 (s) 1835—1841. 
 
 (t) 1841—1848. 
 
 («) 1848—1854. 
 
 {c) 1855—1858. 
 
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 (tc) 1858—1864. (November) Ditto 
 (.r) 1864—1869, (June) Ditto 
 
 (w) 1869—1873. (August) Ditto 
 
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 A 15. 1561 — 1573. Separate Accounts of Overseers of the Bablake Hospital, 
 bound together in modern leather cover, lettered at tlie back, 
 "Bablake: Overseers' Accounts, 1561 — 1573." 
 
 A 16. 1561 — 1653. Book of Payments out of the Municipal Treasury: 
 the first leaf of the Book being headed with these words, to wit, 
 " In this booke be mencioned and wrytten all and singuler 
 summes of money whiche have been taken of the Tresourie of 
 this citie and payed either in the aftayres and busynes of the 
 citie or otherwise sithe the first day of November in the thiixl 
 yeire of the Pteigne of our Sovereign Ladie Queue Elizabeth at 
 whiche day Mr. Hugh Hervie was sworne and admitted into the 
 office of Maior there — 1561." Lettered at the back of the 
 modern leather cover, " City of Coventry. Book of Payments, 
 1561 — 1653." ... 
 
 A 17. 1561 — 1653. Book of Payments into the Municipal Treasury, the 
 first leaf of the Book being headed with these words, to wit, " In 
 this booke be mencionede and wrytten all and singuler sommes 
 of money growing and corny ng to the use of the Corporacion of 
 the Citie of (yoventre as well by reason of eny accompantreceivour 
 baillie or other accomptant of the same, as otherwise, whiche 
 
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 have been put into the Tresourie of the said citie sith the first 
 day of November in the thirde yeire of the reigne of our 
 Sovereign Ladie Queen Elizabeth, at which day Mr. Hugh 
 Hei-vie was admytted and sworn Maior ther — 15G1." Lettered 
 at the back of the modern leather cover, " City of Coventry. 
 Book of lleceipts, 1561 — 1G53." 
 
 A 1 8. Book of Receipts ; being a collection of separate acknowledgments 
 by a large number of persons of the payments to them of moneys 
 paid out of the Municipal Treasury, bound together in a modern 
 leather cover, lettered at the back, " Receipts, 1561 — 1G81." ... 
 
 A 19. 1562 — 1777. Register of Leases and of Grants in Fee-Farm ; inscribed 
 on the outside of the vellum wrapper, " Mr. Birch's Lease Book, 
 and an Account of Grants in Fee Farm." 
 
 A 20. 1568 — 1678. Receipts for sums of money paid by a considerable 
 number of persons ; bound into a modern leather cover, lettered 
 at the back, " Receipts, 15G8 — 1678." 
 
 A 21. 1573 — 1734. Books touching the Possessions of the Guilds and 
 Chantries of Coventre : — 
 
 (a) 15 Elizabeth— 19 Charles II. Large Folio of the Yearly 
 Accounts of successive Bailiffs and Receivers of the rents 
 and revenues of the lands and tenements, &c., formerly 
 pertaining to the Guilds and Chantries in the City of 
 Coventre. 
 
 (b) 20 Charles 11—1698 A.D. Folio of the Yearly Accounts 
 of successive Bailifis and Receivers of the rents and 
 revenues from the lands and tenements, &c., formerly 
 belonging to the Guilds and Chantries in the City of 
 Coventre. 
 
 (0) 
 
 1692—1701. Large Folio of yearly Accounts of successive 
 Bailiffs and Receivers of the rents and revenues from the 
 lands and tenements, &c., formerly belonging to the Guilds 
 and Chantries in the City of Coventre. — N.B. This folio 
 has lost its three opening leaves. 
 
 (d) 1700 — 1701. Bookof Accounts of the Bailiff and Receiver 
 of " the rents and revenues of the lands and tenements 
 
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 Continuation of books touching lands, &c., of Guilds and Chantries :— 
 
 called the Guilds and Chantreys " : containing a compre- 
 hensive Rental of the various lands, tenements and stocks 
 in the hands of the Corporation of the City of Coventre 
 for municipal and charitable uses. 
 
 (e) 1728 — 1734. Book of Payments out of the estates 
 formerly belonging to the Guilds and Chantries. 
 
 A 22. 17 Elizabeth — 2 James II. Large Folio of the Yearly Accounts of 
 successive Bailiffs and Receivers of the rents and revenues from 
 lands and tenements, &c. , held by the Corporation of the City of 
 Coventre for charitable uses. 
 
 A 23. 1577— 1 830. Books of Tithe Accounts of the City of Coventre :— 
 
 (a) 1577 — 1697. Tithe Accounts, bound together into a 
 modern leather cover, lettered at the back, " City of 
 Coventry. Tithe Accounts, 1577 — 1697." An imperfect 
 collection. 
 
 (J) 1608 — 1705. Tvi^enty-elght separate Tithe Account Books 
 ofthe following years, 1608, 1609, 1611, 1614, 1615, 1616, 
 1617, 1619, 1622, 1675, 1679, 1684, 1685, 1688, 1689, 
 1690, 1691, 1692, 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, 1697, 1698, 
 1702, 1703, 1704, 1705, ... 
 
 (c) 1612. The Tythe Book anno 1612 ; bound into a modern 
 cover, lettered at the back, " Tythe Book — 1612." 
 
 {d) 1822—1830. Ledger of the City of Coventry Tithe- 
 Accounts, lettered on one of the outer sides and at the 
 back, " Corporation Tithe Accounts."... 
 
 A. 24. 23 Elizabeth. Book of the Survey of all the lands and tenements of 
 the Corporation of the City of Coventre, " Surveid by John 
 Emerson, the BaUiffe of the lands late Yeldes and Chauntries in 
 the said Cittie and Thomas Banester the Clarke to the Counsell 
 of the same Cittie." 
 
 A 25. 1585 — 1824. City of Coventre Court Books : — 
 
 (a) 1585—1589. Rule Book. ... 
 
 (b) 20 Elizabeth to 29 Elizabeth. 
 45 Elizabeth — 12 James I. 
 1 4 James I. — 4 Charles I. 
 
 Court Book. 
 
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 Continuation of Court Books ; — 
 
 6 Charles I. — 22 Charles II. Court Book. 
 
 21 Charles II. — 6 William and Mary. Ditto. 
 
 3 — 6 William and Mary Ditto. 
 
 10—12 William III. Ditto. 
 
 13 William III— 4 George I. Ditto. 
 
 1717—1737. Ditto 
 
 1815—1824. Ditto 
 
 (c) Four Bail Books of the Court for the following terms of 
 years, to wit, (l) 1646—1653, (2) 1653— 1659, (3) 1661— 
 1683, (3) 1683—1691. 
 
 30 Elizabeth. Collection of Matters touching the rights and privileges 
 of the City of Coventre : including an English translation of the 
 Letters Patent dated to the Mayor, Bailiffs and Community of 
 Coventre by Edward VI. on November 25 th of his sixth regnal 
 year ... 
 
 1596 — 1597. Book of "The Storehouse for Seals of Meale and 
 Come" in Coventre. 
 
 Temp. Elizabeth. English Translation of the Letters Patent, dated 
 by Edward VI. in his 6th regnal year, in confirmation of Charters 
 dated by former Kings of England to the Mayor, bailiffs and 
 community of Coventre ... 
 
 1613 — 1808. Book of Rentals and Leases of Lands and tenements 
 belonging to the Corporation of Coventre 
 
 1617. Book of a Survey of Lands in the Lordship of Stoke, display- 
 ing at the head of its first page this statement, to wit, " The 
 Survey of those severall landes in the Lordship of Stoke, which 
 the freehoulders and tenants intend to lay in severall flatts, 
 begonn the 26 dale of January 1617 and ended the of. " .. 
 
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 101 
 
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 106
 
 A 31. 
 
 A 30 and 
 
 A 31 
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 togetlier. 
 
 A 32. 
 
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 1617 — 1619. Booke of the laying forth of the Flattes in Stoke 
 Common feildes and meadowes begonn March 12, 1617, and 
 ended in September, 1619 : Which was done by the opinions and 
 consent of the names of theise which follow, viz., Mr. Thomas 
 Ligons for Loid Berkeley and Mr. Ralph English his tenant, 
 Mr. Christofer Waryn freehoulder, Mr. Samuell Myles for the 
 City of Coventey and for the Drapers being their tenant, Mr. 
 John Hammond Doctor in Physick freehouldei', Mr. lieginald 
 Home freehoulder, Mi\ Christopher Bowdell freehoulder, and 
 John Sharman tenant to the City of Coventre 
 
 1625. A Terrier of all " the arable lands leyes and meadows" in the 
 lordship of Gad.sby co. Leicester, belonging to the Mayor bailiffs 
 and community of Coventre 
 
 1629 — 1742. A collection of Constables' Presentments bound into a 
 leather cover, lettered at the back, " Constables' Presentments, 
 1629—1742." ... 
 
 10 Charles I. Burton's Book : a large folio described on the opening- 
 leaf as "A collection of divers Records deeds evidences and 
 proceedings concerning the great Suit in Chancerie brought 
 against this Citie of Coventrie and others by Prince Charles for 
 
 £98 6s. 8d. rent per annum as 
 Cornewall, taken out of the Tower, 
 and other places, and of certain 
 Citie, &c." 
 
 par cell of the Dutch ie of 
 Augmentacion Office, Rolls 
 Charters belonging to this 
 
 30. 
 
 A 30. 
 
 1635 — 1677. Book of matters touching ship money: containing on 
 the fly-leaf this explanatory note by the maker of the book, to 
 wit, " This Booke touching ship money raised In Warwickshire 
 sheweth the manner and proceedings thereabouts, and how that 
 the Citie of Coventrey and the Countie thereof is to be rated, but 
 at a fifteenth part of Warwickshire, in all levies assessments and 
 taxaclons wherein the said Citie jolneth with the countie of 
 Warwick, and that it is so ordered by the right honourable 
 the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable Privie 
 Councell, for the future quietness of tliat City In all such services 
 and assessments whatsoever." 
 
 1641 — 1733. Treasm-ers' Books of Payments and Receipts : 
 
 (a) 1G41 — 1690. Treasurers' Book of Payments and Receipts 
 
 (b) 1690—1733. Ditto ditto 
 
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 1647. Compilation of Matters touching the History of Coveiitre, 
 opening with an English Translation of the Letters Patent of 
 6 Edward VI. : Continued by another compiler from 1647 
 to 1747 
 
 1648. History of the Hospital or Almshouse in Gray Friar Lane, 
 from the time of its foundation in the reign of Henry VIII 
 
 1650. The Murage Booke of the Citie of Coventre, of all tenements 
 within the walls of tlie Citie 
 
 1652. Book of "The Rate and Assessment of all houses, shops, 
 warehouses, cellars, stables and all other landes, tenementes and 
 hereditaments in the said citie of Coventrie at eighteen pence in 
 the pound per annum, and for everie ten shillings nyne-pence per 
 annum, for raising of maintenannce for the Ministers in the said 
 Citie by vertue of an Act of Parliament, dated the 21th of 
 March 1650, intituled ' An Act for the more frequent preaching 
 of the Gospell, and better maintenannce of the Ministers in the 
 Citie of Coventry ' " ... ... ... 
 
 1653 — 1760. Book of an imperfect series of the Accounts of the 
 Corvisors' or Curriers' Company : Lettered at the back of the 
 Leather cover, " Cordwainers' Company, Accounts, 1653 — 1760." 
 
 1659 — 1660. Book of the Taylors and Clothworkers' Company, in 
 the time of Henry Ashburne, Master. {Vide A 50.) ... 
 
 Temp. Charles II. Compilation of matters touching the History of 
 Coventry 
 
 1665 — 1840. Book of the Accounts of successive Masters of the 
 Company of Carpenters in the City of Coventry. ( Vide A 4 & A 5) 
 
 Index of Deeds, in handwriting of the later part of the 
 
 seventeenth century : Lettered at back of its modern leather 
 cover, "Citie of Coventre : Index of Deeds, &c." 
 
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 Alphabetical Index to the Deeds and Evidences in the 
 
 Treasury of the City of Coventry, made towards the close of 
 the seventeenth century, and perfected from an Index made in 
 September 1621, that was in Mr. Thomas Sharp's possession in 
 May 1832 ... ... 
 
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 1689 — 1835. — Sessions of Peace Books : 
 
 {(t) 1G89 — 1725. City of Coventre : Special Sessions' Book 
 
 1823—1835. Ditto ditto (of Highways) 
 
 1780—1787. Ditto ditto 
 
 f Book of Petty Sessions held in the 
 \ Mayor's Parlour ... 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 A 48. 
 
 A 49. 
 
 A 50. 
 
 (b) 1802—1807. 
 
 1816—1825. 
 1821—1830. 
 
 (c) 1745—1752. 
 
 (d) 1825—1831. 
 
 {e) 1813—1821. 
 1830—1835. 
 
 Sessions' Book of the Recognizances of 
 Licensed Victuallers and their Sureties, for 
 keeping good order and rule in the houses 
 of the same victuallers 
 
 Book of Orders and Proceedings of Justices 
 of the Peace for Coventry, assembled at 
 Court of Quarter Sessions and acting in 
 pursuance of a Statute of 4 George IV., 
 entitled " An Act for consolidating and 
 amending the Laws relating to the build- 
 ing, repairing and regulating of certain 
 Gaols and Houses of Correction in England 
 and Wales 
 
 Adjourned Petty Sessions Book 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 1703. "A Brief History of the City of Coventry from the most 
 early accounts of it to this year in Annals." — A compilation that 
 deserves consideration 
 
 1713. Papers touching a cause between the Attorney General 
 plaintiff' and the Mayor bailiffs and community of the City of 
 Coventry, defendants : Bound into a volume, lettered at the 
 back of its cover, " Sword and Mace lliots 1713" 
 
 1728 — 1764. Papers of the Tailors' Company, put together in 
 chronological disorder, and bound into a leatlier cover, lettered at 
 the back, " Order Book — Tailors and Sheremen's Company 1728 " 
 {Vide A 42.) 
 
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 A 51. 
 
 A 52. 
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 A 54. 
 
 A 55. 
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 A 57. 
 
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 A 59. 
 
 A GO. 
 
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 1729. Abstract of the Deeds and Writings of Lands, &c., belonging 
 to the Drapers' Company in the City of Coventry. Lettered at 
 the back, " Deeds and Writings of Lands belonging to the 
 Drapers' Company — in the City of Coventry" ., 
 
 Temp. George I. and George IL Town Clerk's Book of Common Forms 
 
 1720 — 1730. Collection of Sacrament Certificates : bound together 
 into a leather cover. Lettered at the back " Sacrament Certifi- 
 cates 1720—1730." 
 
 1727—1730. 12 — 26 George IL Book of Sheriffs' Courts held in 
 the Mayor's Parlour in the City of Coventry. Also, a similar 
 Book of Sheriff's' Courts of the period 1769—1790 ... 
 
 1748 — 1775. Ledger of the Estates of the Corporation of Coventry 
 
 1750 — 1800. Collection of Old Bills and Receipts, bound into a 
 leather cover. Lettered at the back, "Bills 1750—1800. 
 Miscellaneous " 
 
 1752 — 1861. Ledger of the Estates of the Corporation of Coventry : 
 Containing rentals and leases 
 
 1757 — 1781. Book of Receipts from and Payments out of Mr. 
 CoUins's Charity Estate ... 
 
 1760 — 1778. Book of Bond's Charity : Lettered on one of the sides 
 of its leather cover, " Bond's Hospital Accounts, Receipts and 
 Payments" 
 
 1790. Printed Account of Bond's Charity, vsrith this title page, 
 " An Authentic Account of Mr. Thomas Bond's Hospital in the 
 City of Coventr}^ called Bablake Hospital : From its foundation 
 in 1497 to the present year 1790. Published for the Information 
 and Direction of the present Managers and Trustees of the said 
 important Trust. Containing ...cts of several Decrees and 
 Orders of the Court of Chancery, relating to that Charity : With 
 the most eminent Lawyers' opinion taken on Mr. Bond's Will, 
 and the proceedings of former Trustees in the faithful discharge 
 of their duty. Published in the year M,DCC,XC. "... 
 
 A 61. 
 
 1762—1770. Index to Bailiffs' Rentals 
 
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 A 62. 1767 — 1785. Collection of Tavern Bills for dinners and horse-meat, 
 and of Bills for Corporation Dinners, etc. ; bound together into a 
 leather cover, lettered at the back, ''Bills, 1767 — 1785. Hotel 
 and Dinner Bills." 
 
 A 63. 1769. Report of the hearing before Lord Mansfield of the three 
 causes of liiley v. Corporation of Coventry, Wagstaffe v. the 
 same Corporation, and Bird v. the same Corporation, touching the 
 Freedom of the City 
 
 A 64. 1772 — 1823. Book of Terriers and Leases of farms belonging to the 
 Corporation of the City of Coventry 
 
 A 65. 1772 — 1775. Book of Orders and Proceedings at Meetings, held in 
 the Mayor's Parlour, of the Committee appointed to take steps in 
 consequence of the recent service upon the Corporation of a Writ, 
 for the execution of a Decree made in the year 1723 in the Court 
 of Chancery in a cause, then and there depending between the 
 said Corporation as plaintiffs, and his Majesty's Attorney-General, 
 the Masters and Wardens of the Merchant Taylors' Company and 
 other defendants, relating to Sir Thomas White's Charity 
 
 A 66. 1776 — 1798. Assizes of Bread Book ... 
 
 A 67. 1777 — 1779. Book of Orders and Proceedings of a Committee, 
 specially appointed "to manage and defend any Informations or 
 Suits that may be commenced or prosecuted against this Corpoi'a- 
 tion " of the City of Coventry " either respecting their Charities 
 or otherwise." ... 
 
 A 68. 1781 — 1831. Register of Statute Bonds, Mortgages and Assign- 
 ments... 
 
 A 69. 1782. Survey of Mr. Zouch's Farm in the Parish of Cliffbrd in the 
 County of Gloucester, belonging to the Trustees of Mr. Thomas 
 Jesson's Charity, taken in the year 1782 by Thomas Eagle 
 
 A 70. 1790 — 1807. Streets' Commissioners' Book, to wit. Book of Orders 
 made and Proceedings at meetings of the Commissioners 
 appointed to execute the Act of Parliament " for the better 
 paving cleansing lighting and watching the City of Coventry 
 and the suburbs thereof, and removing and preventing nuisances 
 and annoyances therein" 
 
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 1801 — 1805. Small Book of Orders of Council with respect to Leases, 
 
 19th Century. Book of Forms, Precedents and Directions for 
 executing the office of an Under-Sheriff 
 
 1812 — 1832. Book of Receipts and Payments by the Trustees imder 
 the Statute 52 George III., entitled "An Act for hnproving the 
 public roads in and through Coventry " 
 
 1813. Eegister of the Charity Estates of the City of Coven tre, 
 lettered at the back, " Charity Memorial Register " : opening 
 with " a Memorial or Statement in pursuance of an Act of 
 Parliament for the Registering and Securing of Charitable 
 Donations," giving particulars of " the Charity Estate called Sir 
 Thomas White's Charity " 
 
 1819 — 1845. Book of Charity Estates: Setting forth the Estates 
 under the management of the Trustees of the General Charities 
 of the City of Coventry, together with the names of the several 
 Lessees thereof, the amount of rent to be paid by each of the 
 said Lessees, the term of years for which each estate is let, and 
 the date at which each term expires ... ... 
 
 1823 — 1833. Account-Book of the Loans received of Sir Thomas 
 White's Charity and placed out by Messrs. Carter and Dewes, 
 commencing with their Partnership on 1st May, 1823. ... 
 
 1823 — 1835. Book of Receipts of and Payments by the Commissioners 
 for executing the Statute of 30 George III., " for the better 
 paving cleansing lighting and watching the City of Coventry "... 
 
 1827 — 1836. Book of Orders made and Minutes of Proceedings at 
 Meetings of the Commissioners for the better paving, cleansing, 
 lighting and watching the City of Coventry 
 
 1834. Collection of Original Letters and Papers, beginnmg with a 
 letter written in behalf of the Friars Minors of Coventre by 
 Queen Isabella to the Mayor, bailiffs and commonalty of Coventre, 
 and closing with the Indenture, dated 24th October, 1704, of 
 the acknowledgment made by Samuel Billing, maior elect of the 
 City of Coventry, of his receipt of the silver plate and other things 
 of the Corporation, and of his promise to restore the same silver 
 
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 plate and other things to the Treasury of the said City on tlie 
 detennination of his Mayoralty : the Collection of Letters and 
 other writings having been arranged and bound by the late 
 Messrs. Thomas Sharp and George Eld into two large folios that 
 are lettered at the back " Original Letters and Papers " 
 
 A 80. 1835. City of Coventry, List of Voters of 
 
 A 81. 1836 — 1858. Eeports to the Town Council by the Estates Com- 
 mittee from October 1842 to December 1858, and Reports to the 
 same Council by the Market Tolls Committee from May 1836 to 
 July 1858 : Bound into a volume, lettered at the back " City of 
 Coventry. Reports to Council : Estates Committee, 1 8 October, 
 1842 to December 1858. — Market Tolls Committee, 26 May, 
 1836, to 6 July, 1858" ... 
 
 A 82. 1837. Abstract of the Leases of the several Estates under the 
 management of the Trustees of the General Charities of the City 
 of Coventry 
 
 A 83. 1839, October 12th. Reports made by Mr. Stacey Grimaldi to 
 Messrs. Troughton and Lea, solicitors of the Corporation of 
 Coventry on the Territorial Extent of the town or city of 
 Coventre, &c., after searching public and other records " in order 
 to ascertain whether the Hamlets of Ansty, Exhall, Foleshill, 
 Kere.sley, Sowe, Stivichall, Stoke and Wyken are or were 
 antiently with the Town of Coventry or the jurisdiction of the 
 same." Large Folio, lettered at the back, " City of Coventry. 
 Reports as to the territorial extent of the City of Coventry and 
 jurisdiction of the Corporation of Coventry over adjoining 
 hamlets" 
 
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 A 84. 1839—1842. Book of the Case for the City of Coventry, with Brief 
 delivered to Council, in the cause in the Court of Exchequer 
 between the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of 
 Coventry, plaintiifs, against Edmund Lythall, William Wilson 
 and seven others, defendants. — Lettered at the back of the 
 leather cover, " City of Coventry. Boundary Case. Brief, &c.... 
 
 A 85. 1846 — 1858. Reports by the Cemetery Committee to the Town 
 Council of Coventry, bound into a leather cover, lettered at the 
 back, " City of Coventr'. — Cemetery Committee Reports, 13 Jan., 
 1846 to 30 Nov., 1858" ... 
 
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 1849- 
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 1872. 
 
 
 1 849—1 872. Seven Local Board of Health Minute Books : 
 
 Local Board (i.e. Board of Health) Minute 
 
 ■•• ■•• ••• •»» ••• 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 Local Board of Health Minute Book 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 Ditto ditto 
 
 1851 — 1858. Reports by the Baths Committee to the Town Council 
 of the City of Coventry : Bound in leather cover, lettered at the 
 back, " City of Coventry Baths Commit. Reports, 28 April, 
 1851 to 30 Nov., 1858" ... 
 
 1851 — 1858. Reports of various Committees 
 
 1858 — 1864. Report of General Works Committee 
 
 1855 — 1884. Coventry Gas Company Book : Lettered at the back of 
 the leather cover, "Register of Mortgages or Bonds." — With a 
 companion book for the legistration of Transfers : Lettered at the 
 back " Transfei's of Mortgages and Bonds " ... 
 
 1859 — 1864. Reports by the Inspector of Nuisances to the Local 
 Board of Health, under the Nuisances Act of 1855, for the City 
 of Coventry : Bound into a volume, lettered at the back, " City 
 of Coventry, Local Board of Health — Reports of Inspector of 
 Nuisances, Jan. 1859 to Dec. 1864 " 
 
 ] 864. Book touching the Visit of the Archaeological Institute to the 
 City of Coventry on 28th July, 1864 ; containing signatures of 
 the Visitors 
 
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 188
 
 //. Charters^ Letters Patent, Letters under the Privy Seal 
 or the Signet, with or without the Sign Manual ; 
 and Indenttires of Leases by Sovereigns. 
 
 B 1. 
 
 B 2. 
 
 B 3. 
 
 Charter dated at Covintre {sic) by Ranulph (Ralph) Earl of Chester : 
 Granting with other concessions to his burgesses of Covintre and 
 their heirs, that they may hold in free burgage of him and his 
 heirs more firmly and freely than they held in the time of the 
 Earl's father and other ancestors ; with Grant to them of all the 
 liberties and good laws enjoyed by the burgesses of Lincoln, and 
 With Grant that they shall not be drawn in any matter to the 
 Earl's Castle to plead, but shall have their own portmote, in which 
 all pleas touching the Earl and them may be dealt with. 
 
 Henry II. Charter dated by Henry II. " apud Merlebergam," of 
 Confirmation to the burgesses of Covintre {sic) of the charter 
 granted to them by Ralph, Earl of Chester ; With further con- 
 cessions, for the greater security of the liberties, granted to the 
 same burgesses by the Earl's charter. 
 
 31 Edward I, November 6th. — Letters Patent of Licence to Peter de 
 Blockesley to give and assign for ever to the Prior and Convent 
 of Coventre a messuage and two virgates of land with then- 
 appurtenances in Sowe, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 B 4. 
 
 B 5. 
 
 17 Edward II., July 10th. — Charter of Inspeximus and Confirmation of 
 Henry the Thu'd's Charter of Inspeximus and Confirmation of the 
 Charter given by Henry II. to the Burgesses of Coventre, in 
 Confirmation of the Charter of Concessions given by Ralph Earl of 
 Chester to the burgesses of Coventre. 
 
 13 Edward III., January 17th. — Letters Patent (French), dated at 
 Risyngs Castle by the Queen- Mother Isabella, of Licence to 
 John de Holland chaplain, John Lemman, John le Porter, Richard 
 de Stoke, William de Welneburghe and others to acquire and hold 
 lands, tenements and rents, &c. to the yearly value of twenty 
 pounds in the Queen's seigniory of Coventre, the Statute of 
 Mortmain notwithstanding, for the maintenance of a Chantry of 
 six chaplains, to chant masses and other saci'ed services at the 
 parochial churches of the Holy Trinity and St. Michael of Coventre 
 
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 for the good estate in this life of the said Queen, and of her son 
 the King, and of the Duke of Cornewaille, and for their souls 
 when they shall have died, and also for the souls of the Queen 
 Isabella's Lord Edward the late King of England, and the same 
 Queen's dear son John late Earl of Cornewaille. 
 
 B G. 14 Edward III., May 20th. Letters Patent of Licence to the men of 
 the town of Coveutre and their successors to have a Merchants' 
 Guild and a fraternity of brethren and sisters of the same Guild in 
 the said town, and a Master or Keeper of the same Guild, &c. 
 
 B 7. ! 15 Edward III, May 10th. Charter of Inspeximus and Confirmation 
 of the Charter of Inspeximus and Confii-mation dated by Edward 
 II., of Inspeximus and Confii-mation of the Charter dated by 
 Henry III., of Inspeximus and Confirmation of the Charter whereby 
 Henry II. confirmed the Charter of liberties and laws, granted to 
 the Burgesses of Coventre by Eanulf (Ealph) Earl of Chester ; 
 With Inspeximus and Confirmation of a charter dated in former time 
 by the aforesaid King Edward III., granting to the Merchants of 
 Coventre and to their heirs and successors being merchants of the 
 said town, that they should be exempt for ever from toll, pannage, 
 pontage, murage, &c., in respect to their goods and merchandize 
 throughout the King's realm and dominion ; With further con- 
 cession to the burgesses and honest men of Coventre, that all 
 Inquisitions made in the said town, before the King his heirs 
 justices or ministers, or the justices or ministers of his heirs, 
 respecting contracts agreements or trespasses made or to be made in 
 the said town, or respecting lands and tenements within the same 
 town, should and ought to be made by burgesses and men of the 
 said town, and not by foreigners, so long as the matters to be 
 enquired into touch neither the King nor the community of the 
 said towm. 
 
 15 Edward III., May 10th. Charter, dated by Edward HI to the 
 Burgesses of Coventre, Opening with Inspeximus and Confirmation 
 of the Charter, dated to the burgesses of the same town by 
 Edward II., of Inspeximus and Confirmation of a Charter dated by 
 Henry III., of Inspeximus and Confirmation of a Charter by 
 Henry II., granting and confirming to the Bui-gesses of Coventre 
 all the liberties and free customs and good laws, &c. gxanted to 
 them by Ealph Earl of Chester ; With a recitation of the con- 
 cessions of the charter of the said Earl. 
 
 B 9. 16 Edward III., October Gth. Letters Patent, dated by the said King, 
 of Licence John Holand chaplain, John Lemman and four other 
 persons to found and establish a fraternity and Guild in honour of 
 
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 B 10. 
 
 St. John the Baptist in Coventre, and to hold lands tenements 
 and rents, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding, for creating 
 and maintaining chantries of six chaplains, to celebrate daily in 
 the parish churches of the Holy Trinity and St. Michael divine 
 rites and services for the souls of the said King's ancestors, and 
 for the health of the said King, his mother Queen Isabella, his 
 consort Queen Philippa and his childi^en and Walter de Chesthunt 
 and William de Belgrave whilst they shall be living, and for their 
 souls when they shall have been taken from this life, and for the 
 welfare of the brethren and benefactors of the said Guild wliilst 
 they shall be living, and for their souls when they shall have died, 
 and for the soul of the King's brother John de Eltham late Earl 
 of Cornewall, and for the souls of all who have died in the Faith. 
 
 17 Edward III., November 12th. Letters Patent of Licence granted 
 by the said King to Thomas de Ichynton, Nicholas Pake, William 
 de Tuttebury, William de Overton clerk, Peter Percy, Richard le 
 Darkere, Simon Wareyn, John Vincent, and John de Pakynton 
 to found a fraternity and Guild of themselves and others brethren 
 and sisters in honour of St. Katherine at Coventre, and to find 
 three chaplains who shall daily celebrate divine rites for the souls 
 of the said King's progenitors, and for the welfare of the same 
 King his mother the Queen Isabel and his consort the Queen 
 Philippa and the children of the same King and Queen, and of 
 Robert de Sadyngton, Master John de Thoresby, John de St. Paul, 
 William de Thorp, Richard de Smetheton, and William de Burgh 
 during their lives, and for the souls of the same persons when 
 they shall have died, and for the aforesaid grantees and the 
 brethren and sisters of the said Guild and their benefactors during 
 then- lives, and for their souls when they shall have died and for 
 the souls of all who have died in the faith, in the chapel of St. 
 Katherine in the church of the hospital of St. John the Baptist 
 Coventry ; With Licence to the brethren and sisters of the 
 
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 same Guild to assemble yearly, to elect a Master or Keeper of the 
 same Guild and the aforesaid chaplains. 
 
 Edward III., January 20th. Charter dated by the said King, at 
 the instance and request of his mother Queen Isabella, to whom 
 the Manor of Cheylesmore had been granted for life, and also m 
 consideration of the King's first-born son the Prince of Wales to 
 whose hands the manor would pass after the said Queen's death : 
 Granting that the men of Coventre, tenants of the said manor, 
 may elect annually from amongst themselves a Mayor and fit 
 Bailiffs, and have cognizance of all pleas as well of trespasses, 
 contracts and agreements as of other things arising within the 
 
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 B 12. 
 
 B 13. 
 
 town, and may have in the said town a seal tor taking recogni- 
 zances of debts, according to the form of the Statute for Merchants 
 published ; and also Granting that the said town may have a 
 prison for the correction of malefactors, and that the Mayor and 
 bailiffs of the said town for the time being shall have the custody 
 and charge of the same prison and of the prisoners committed 
 to it. ... 
 
 18 Edward III., May 7th. Letters Patent (French) dated by the 
 Queen Mother Isabella at Risyngs, Granting to the good people 
 of the Guild of St. John the Baptist in the town of Coventre 
 a piece of land called Babbelak in the said town, in order that 
 they may there build a chapel in honour of God and St. John the 
 Baptist, and have there two chaplains daily chanting masses and 
 other divine sei'vices for the good estate of the said Queen's dear 
 son the King, and of the said Queen Isabella, and of her dear 
 daughter the Queen Philippa and of the Prince of Wales, during 
 their lives, and for then* souls when they shall have died, and for 
 the soul of the said Queen's dear Lord the late King of England, 
 and for the soul of her dear son John the late Earl of Cornewaille, 
 and for the lives and souls of the brethren of the same Guild, &c. 
 
 18 Edward III., August 23rd. Letters Patent ot Precept to Arch- 
 bishops, bishops, abbots, earls, sheriffs and others : Declaring the 
 King's will that his mother the Queen Isabella may have and 
 enjoy for the whole of her life all the liberties and privileges in 
 the Manor of Cheylesmore, heretofore granted to the said Queen 
 for life, and set forth in the same Letters Patent. 
 
 B 14. 
 
 18 Edward III., October 12th. Letters Patent (French) dated at 
 Kenynghale by the Queen Mother Isabella, Queen of England, &c. ; 
 Granting to her good people of the town of Coventre, during her 
 pleasure and their good conduct, that they may elect from amongst 
 themselves a bailiff, who may yearly render loyal account of the 
 issues and profits arising to her from the same town. ... 
 
 B 15. 19 Edward III., June 16th. Charter, dated by the said King at the 
 Tower of London : Confirming to his mother the Queen Isabella 
 and the King's first-born son the Prince of Wales the King's 
 previous concessions touching the Manor of Cheilesmore, to wit, 
 that she during her life and the said Prince and his heirs after her 
 death may, either by their own stewards or by the Mayor and 
 bailiffs for the time being of Coventre, have cognizance of all pleas 
 arising within the liberty of the said town, as well those respect- 
 ing lands tenements and rents as those respecting trespasses, 
 agreements, contracts, &c., together with other privileges and 
 
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 B 16. 
 
 B 17. 
 
 B 18. 
 
 powers heretofore granted to the same Queen and Prince within 
 the liberty of the said manor, in which Coventre is situated. 
 
 19 Edward III., December 3rd. Letters Patent dated by the said 
 King in confirmation of the grant heretofore made by him, at the 
 instance and request ot the Queen-Mother Isabella, Granting to 
 the men of Coventre, being tenants of the Manor of Cheilesmore, 
 that they may have and yearly elect from amongst themselves a fit 
 Mayor and bailiffs for the said town, and in confirmation of divers 
 other powers and privileges, heretofore granted by the same King 
 to the men of Coventre and their successors. 
 
 19 Edward III., December 3rd. Letters Patent dated by the said 
 
 King, at the instance and request of the Queen-Mother Isabella, 
 to whom the Manor of Cheillesmore pertains for her life, in con- 
 firmation of previous charters granted by him to the said Queen 
 and the men of Coventre, tenants of the said Manor, to wit, 
 (1) a charter granting, with other things, that the Men of 
 Coventre may have a Mayor and bailifis, to be elected annually 
 from amongst themselves, with cognizance of pleas, touching as 
 well trespasses, contracts and agreements as other things, arising 
 within the same town, and a seal, &c., (2) a charter granting to 
 the said Queen View of Frankpledge of the said Manor and town, 
 with Forfeitures of felons and fugitives within the said Manor &c , 
 and (3) a charter granting to the said Queen and all the men of 
 her said Manor freedom of pannage, passage, stallage, tollage &c., 
 throughout the said King's whole realm, together with other con- 
 cessions to same Queen and the men of her said manor of 
 Cheillesmore. 
 
 20 Edward III., August 16th. Letters Patent of Acquittance and 
 
 Discharge, made in consideration of a sum ot 50;^ paid by the 
 men of the town of Coventre into the Receipt of the King's 
 Exchequer, for the charges of fifteen armed men about to cross to 
 parts beyond sea in the King's service : Acquitting and discharging 
 the said town in respect to the said charges. 
 
 B 19. 
 
 21 Edward III., June 14th. Letters Patent of a grant, for the time 
 of the Grantor's life, dated by the Queen Mother Isabella at 
 Risyngs Castle, of a rood of land with appurtenances in Coventre 
 in her park of Cheylesmore to Peter de Stoke merchant of 
 Coventre, at a yearly rent of five silver pence. 
 
 B 20. 22 Edward III., May 26th. Letters Patent of a Grant by the said 
 King of Licence to Robert Chaundos, John de Wynwyk clerk and 
 seventeen other grantees, to found a guild to the honour of the 
 
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 precious Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, with a chaplain 
 to celebrate daily divine rites and services for the good estate of 
 the said King and of the grantees and of the brethren and sisters 
 of the same Guild during their lives, and for their souls when they 
 shall have died : With Licence to the brethren and sisters of the 
 same Guild to assemble yearly, in order to elect a Master and 
 Chaplain for their said Guild. 
 
 B 21. 22 Edward III., July 17th. Letters Patent, dated by the said King, 
 of Inspeximus and Confirmation, of the Letters Patent, dated by 
 the Prince of Wales on 12th March in the said year, of 
 Inspeximus and Confii-mation of the Letters Patent dated by 
 the Queen Mother Isabella at the Castle of Rysyng on 12th 
 February of the same year, whereby the said Queen approved the 
 Charter of liberties and privileges whereby her son Edward III. 
 granted at her instance and request, together with other powers, to 
 the men of Coventre, being tenants of the Manor of Cheilesmore, 
 that they might elect yearly a Mayor and bailiffs from amongst 
 themselves, and whereby the said Queen Isabella granted for her 
 life to the same men of Coventre all the liberties &c. which the 
 said King conceded they should enjoy after her death, and whereby 
 the same Queen granted to the same men of Coventre, that they 
 might have during her life a market, a fau-, and View of Frank- 
 jDledge in the said town of Coventre : It being stipulated in the 
 same last-mentioned Letters Patent that, in consideration of the 
 concessions made to them in the same Letters by the said Queen, 
 the Men of Coventre should during her life pay to her yearly the 
 sum of 50£, in two equal portions at the feasts of Easter and St. 
 Michael in each year. 
 
 B 22. 36 Edward III., October 18th. Letter Patent (French) addressed by 
 the said King to all justices, sheriffs, bailiffs and his other 
 ministers, &c., who ai'e thereby instructed that the Commons of 
 the town of Coventre should be in no way molested, contrary to 
 the tenor of the King's Pardon to them. 
 
 B 23. 38 Edward III., March 23rd. Letters Patent of Licence granted by 
 the King to Henry Kele and Thomas Orme to found and create 
 a fraternity and Guild to the honour of the Holy Trinity, and to 
 acquire and hold lands, tenements and rents to the yearly value 
 of ten marks within the liberty and lordship of Coventre, and to 
 hold the same to themselves and the brethren and sisters of the 
 said fraternity and Guild and their successors for ever, for the 
 maintenance of two chaplains to celebrate divine rites daily in 
 the church of the Holy Trinity in Coventre, for the good estate 
 
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 of the said King and his consort Philippa Queen of England and 
 their children so long as they shall live, and for their sonls, when 
 they shall have died, and for the souls of all the brethren and 
 sisters of the said Guild and their benefactors and for all who have 
 died in the Faith, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 B 24. 1 Richard II., March 4th. Charter of Tnspeximus and Confirmation 
 of the Charter whereby Edward III. granted to the Merchants of 
 Coventre and their successors, to be free of toll, pannage, pontage 
 and murage, &c., for their goods and merchantable articles : "With 
 Inspeximus and Confirmation of the Charter dated by Edward III. 
 in confirmation of the Charter dated by Edward II., in confirma- 
 tion of the Charter whereby Henry III. confirmed the Charter 
 granted by Henry II., in confirmation of the Charter given by 
 Ranulph (Ralph) Earl of Chester to his burgesses of Coventre : 
 With Inspeximus and Confii-mation of other Charters dated by 
 Edward III., conceding liberties and powers to the burgesses of 
 Coventre 
 
 B 25. 4 Richard II., April 4th. Letters Patent, dated by Richard II., of 
 Inspeximus and Confirmation of the Letters Patent whereby 
 Edvs^ard III., on 26th May in his 22nd regnal year, granted 
 Licence to Robert Chaundos, John de Wynwyk clerk and 
 seventeen other persons to found a fraternity and Guild of 
 themselves and others brethren and sisters in honour of the 
 precious Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ at Coventre, 
 and to find a chaplain to celebrate divine rites daily for the 
 welfare of the said King Edward III. and of the said Robert 
 Chaundos and John de Wyn-wyk clerk and the seventeen other 
 grantees, and the brethren and sisters of the said Guild, during 
 their lives, and for their souls, when they shall have died, and for 
 the souls of all who have died in the faith, &c. 
 
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 B 26. 8 Richard II., October 20th. Letters Patent, dated by the said King, 
 in ratification of an indenture, whereby the Mayor bailiffs and 
 chamberlains of Coventre on 26th December 2 Richard II. granted 
 in fee-farm a piece of land in Coventre to Geoffrey Skartheburgh 
 of Coventre and his wife Agnes, at a yearly rent of four shillings 
 of silver 
 
 B 27. 16 Richard II., June 28th. Letters Patent, dated by the King in 
 consideration of 50£ paid to him by the Master brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of the precious Body and Blood of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ in Coventre, of Licence to John Scardeburgh of 
 Coventre, John de Wedon, Richard Marshall, Adam Deyster and
 
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 B 28. 
 
 Nicholas Dudley of Coventry, to give and assign to the aforesaid 
 Master brethren and sisters of the aforesaid Guild twenty-nine 
 messuages, eight acres of land, eighteen denarates of rent and 
 one half of a messuage in Coventre, to hold to themselves the 
 said Master brethren and sisters of the said Guild, and their 
 successors, the Statute of Mortmain nothwithstanding, in order 
 to find a chaplain to celebrate divine rites daily for their benefit, 
 and for doing certain other works of piety, at the ordinance of the 
 said Master, brethren and sisters, for ever. 
 
 16 Richard II., June 30th. Letters Patent setting forth particulars of 
 the foundation and privileges of the Guild of St. John the Baptist 
 of Coventre, temp. Edward III. and the Guild of the Holy Trinity 
 of Coventre founded in the same reign, and granting that the said 
 two Guilds may be united and incorporated into one GuUd under 
 the name of the Fraternity and Guild of the Holy Trinity, the 
 Blessed Mary Virgin and St. John Baptist of Coventry, and 
 granting that the same Guild may have power to hold within 
 Coventre and elsewhere lands tenements and rents, &c., to the 
 yearly value of £86 13s. 4d., the Statute of Mortmain notwith- 
 standing. 
 
 16 Richard II., August 4th. Letters Patent of the concession, made 
 by the King in consideration of 20£ paid to him by the Mayor 
 bailiffs and community of Coventre, of Licence to William de 
 Okham, John de Marton deyster, William Palmer and Thomas 
 de Sutton, all four of the said city, to give six messuages with 
 their appurtenances in Coventre to the aforesaid Mayor, bailiffs 
 and community, and also of Licence to the same Mayor, bailiffs 
 and community to receive and hold the same six messuages to 
 themselves and their successors, in order to do and support certain 
 works of piety at the ordinance of the said William, John, 
 William and Thomas, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 •" ^^- 16 Richard II., August 5th. Letters Patent, dated by the said King, 
 of Licence to John Percy, William Wolfe, Rolland Damet, 
 Richard Verdon, Henry Kele, Adam Keresley, John Wedon and 
 others and their heirs, or the Master brethren and sisters of the 
 Guild of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the 
 Baptist and their successors, to hold certain lands, tenements, 
 rents, &c., for ever, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding : 
 The said Licence being granted to give effect to the same King's 
 previous Licence to the same Guild to acquire and hold lands and 
 tenements, &c., to the yearly value " quater viginti et sex librarum 
 tresdecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum." 
 
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 B 31. 22 Richard II., November 13th. Letters Patent addressed by the 
 said King to William Bage, stevvai-d of the King's Manor of 
 Cheylesmore, and Guy Spyne the Escheator of Warwick ; appoint- 
 ing them to enquire by the oaths of honest men, whether it wouhl 
 be prejudicial to the King's interest or the interests of others, 
 should he grant to the Mayor baihffs and community of tho 
 town of Coventre and their successors all gates, bridges and 
 profits within the following bounds, to wit, from Jabotsasshe to 
 to the Mill called Nassyngton Mill to the corner ot the stone 
 wall of the park of Cheilesmoi-e, and thence by the same wall 
 and the palings of the same park to Baronueswell and thencr 
 to the house of John Yate of Duderaanneswell, and thence to 
 the church and cemetery of St. Nicholas of Coventre, and thence 
 to Bottecrosse and thence to Harnhale Qwarele, and thence to 
 Gosford Green. 
 
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 B 32. 6 Henry IV., November 12th. Letters Patent dated 
 of Wales, in consideration of 10£ paid to 
 
 brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist in Cov^nitre, of Licence to 
 John Preston of Coventre merchant and William Whitchurch of 
 Coventre merchant, to grant foiu- messuages, one toft, one garden 
 and eleven acres of land in Coventre, and also the remainder of a 
 messuage in Coventre which Agnes, formerly the wife of Thomas 
 Brone late of Coventre, holds for the term of her life, to the 
 Master brethren and sisters of the aforesaid Guild, to have and 
 hold the same to themselves and their successors, the Statute of 
 Mortmain notwithstanding, in aid of their livelihood and for the 
 performance of certain works of piety according to the ordinance 
 of the aforesaid John and William. 
 
 B 33. 6 Henry IV., November 12th. Letters Patent, dated by the King in 
 consideration of sixteen pounds paid to him by the Guild of the 
 Holy Trinity and St. John the Baptist of Coventre, of Licence to 
 John Preston of Coventre merchant and William Whitchurch of 
 Coventre merchant, to give for ever four messuages, a toft, a 
 garden and eleven acres of land with appurtenances, and also the 
 remainder for ever of a messuage in Coventre on the death of 
 Agnes, formerly the wife of Thomas Brone of Coventre deceased, 
 who holds the said messuage for life, to the Master brethren and 
 sisters of the said Guild, to hold the same messuages &c. to them and 
 their successors of the said Guild for ever, in aid of the livelihood 
 of the said Guild, and for the performance of pious works to be 
 done by the same Guild, according to the direction of the said
 
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 John Preston and William Whitclmrch : With Licence to the 
 same Guild to hold the aforesaid messuages, the Statute of 
 Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 B 34. fi Henry IV, November 24th. Letters Patent of Inspeximus and 
 Exemplification of the Petition (French), exhibited to the King in 
 his parliament held at Coventre by the Prior and Convent of the 
 Cathedral Church of Coventre, Setting forth the pains and 
 charges with which the petitioners and their predecessors have 
 brought water by an underground aqueduct to their priory, — and 
 Complaining of the injuries done to their said aqueduct by 
 malicious persons, who also hinder the petitioners when they 
 would survey and repair the same conduit, and who also corrupt 
 the water of the Shirburn that runs to the petitioners' mills, — 
 And Praying that henceforth no one shall be sufiered to injure 
 the said conduit, or to hinder the petitioners from surveying and 
 repairing it, or to corrupt the water of the Shirburn by throwing 
 entrails of beasts, garbage or other filth into it, under a penalty 
 of 10£ to the King and treble damages for injury done in those 
 respects to the petitioners. 
 
 B 35. 8 Henry IV., November 18th. Letters Patent, dated by the said 
 King to the Mayor ballifis and community of the City of 
 Coventre : Granting that no more or other Guilds than those 
 at present existing in Coventre shall ever exist within the said 
 city. 
 
 B 3G. 10 Henry IV., February 16th. Letters Patent, dated by the King 
 in consideration of fifty shillings paid to him by the Guild of the 
 Holy Trinity, to William Broke parson of the Church of Lodbroke 
 and his brother John Broke and John Barbour of Bysshopychynton, 
 to give and assign for ever a messuage with appurtenances in 
 Coventre to the Master brethren and sisters of the said Guild, 
 With Licence to the same Master brethren and sisters and their 
 successors, to hold the same messuage, the Statute of Mortmain 
 notwithstanding. 
 
 B 37. 13 Henry IV., December 1st. Letters Patent (French) dated by 
 Henry Prince of Wales, in consideration of good service rendered 
 and to be rendered, of a Grant for life to Thomas Porter valet of 
 the said Prince's bedchamber, of a messuage of a himdred acres 
 of arable land, twenty acres of meadow and an acre of wood with 
 their appurtenances in Wodende called Ernesplace, which messuage 
 of arable land, meadow and wood are held of the Prince and seized 
 into his hands, because the Prior of Coventre puichased and 
 appropriated them to Mortmain without the said Prince's licence. 
 
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 B 38 1 Henry V., March 8th. Letters Patent of Inspeximus and (-onfirraa- 
 tion of the Letters Patent whereby Henry IV. in his 8th regnal 
 year ordained that henceforth there should be no more or other 
 Guilds within Coventry than the Guilds at present existing within 
 the said city. 
 
 B 39. 6 Henry V., June 10th. Letters Patent, dated by the King in con- 
 sideration of 40£ paid to him by the Mayor and community of 
 Coventre, of Licence to John Leder, John Esterton, John Preston, 
 Richard Southam, Lawrence Cook, and William Dilcok to give 
 and grant for ever divers lands tenements and rents to the said 
 Mayor and community, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 B 40. 8 Henry V. (?), November 22nd. Letters of Mandate, addressed by the 
 King to the Mayor and bailiffs of Coventre upon information that 
 a number of young men, being "journemen" servants of tailors 
 and other artificers of the said city, have assembled and held and 
 continue to assemble and hold meetings within the Priory of the 
 said city and the houses of the Brothers there under the name of 
 the Fraternity of St. Anne, which action on their part may work 
 to the injury of the Fraternities of the Holy Trinity and Corpus 
 Christi within the same city : Requiring the said Mayor and 
 bailiffs to make proclamations against the aforesaid unlawful 
 assemblies, and to arrest all persons who shall disregard such 
 proclamations, and to hold the offenders in safe custody, until the 
 King shall make further orders in the matter, and to make return 
 of the principal persons who have brought about the said unlawful 
 assemblies. 
 
 B 41. 1 Henry VI. _(?), March 8th. Letters of Mandate, addressed to the Mayor 
 and bailiffs of Coventre, upon information that a number of young 
 men, being journeymen tailors and other artificers of the said city, 
 have held and continue to hold assemblies within the Priory of 
 Coventre, and the houses of Brothers there, in order to maintain 
 a Guild there under the name of St. Anne, to the discredit and 
 prejudice of the Fraternities of the Holy Trinity and Corpus 
 Christi, and to the injury of the whole community of the said 
 city : Requiring the aforesaid Mayor and bailiffs to make procla- 
 mations in the said city, prohibiting the said unlawful assemblies, 
 and to arrest promptly all persons disregarding and disobeying the 
 same proclamations, and to hold them in safe custody till the King 
 shall have ordered their enlargement. 
 
 B 42» 2 Henry VI., November 16th. Letters Patent of Licence to William 
 Babyngton and William Botener, to give and assign for ever to 
 the Mayor and community of Coventre a messuage with appur- 
 
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 tenances in Coventre, yielding thii'teen sliillings and four pence 
 per annum, to be held by the said Mayor and community in part 
 satisfaction of a grant, made by the present King's father to the 
 samr Mayor and Community, of Licence to acquire and hold for 
 ever, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding, lands, tenements, 
 rents and services to the yearly value of 40£. within the said city 
 and the precinct thereof, towards the support of the burdens of 
 the same city, the aforementioned grant by Henry V. having been 
 made in consideration of the heavy burdens sustained by the 
 Mayor and community in respect to the min-age of their city, and 
 also in consideration of the lact that the Mayor and community 
 neither possessed nor ever had possessed any means for sustaining 
 the murage and other burdeiis of their city, apart from collection 
 imposed upon the poor folk of the same city to their manifest 
 injury, ... ... ... v 
 
 B 43, 3 Henry VI., February 14th. — Letters of Mandate, adch-essed by the 
 King to the Mayor, Keepers of Peace and bailiffs of the City of 
 Coventre, upon information that a number of youths and men 
 being the servants of tailors and other artificers, working by the 
 day and called " journeymen " of the said city, have combined and 
 held meetings in the Chapel of St. George and elsewhere within 
 the said city, and have presumed without the King's licence to 
 make themselves into a Guild or Fraternity named the Fraternity 
 of St. George of Coventre, and intend to maintain the same 
 Fraternity with collections to be made amongst themselves, and 
 have elected and maintain Masters, clerks and other officers, to 
 the discredit and injury of the Guilds of the Holy Trinity and 
 Coi-pus Christi, and to the injui-y of the whole community of the 
 same City : — Requiring the aforesaid Mayor, Keepers of the 
 Peace, and bailiffs of the same city to make proclamations and 
 order the offenders to desist from holding such meetings, and from 
 maintaining the same unauthorized Guild of St. George or any 
 like fraternities, and to arrest promptly all persons who disregard 
 the said proclamations, and return the names of the principal 
 offenders into the King's Chancery, in order that they may be 
 punished according to their demerits. 
 
 B 44, 3 Henry VL, September 12th. — Letters Patent of a Pardon to William 
 Dylcok the Master and the brethren and sisters of the Guild of 
 the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the 
 Baptist of Coventre, of all offences committed by them before the 
 8th day of December last past. 
 
 B 45, 5 Henry VI., May 11th. — Letters Patent, dated in consideration of 
 the heavy burdens sustained by the Mayor and Community of 
 
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 B 46. 
 
 Coventre for maintaining the Murage of their city, of Licence to 
 the said Mayor and Comminiity to acquire and hohl lands, tene- 
 ments and lents, &c., to the yearly value of /iiO, in aid of the 
 support of the said town. ... ... ... ... ( -ase 1 1 
 
 18 Henry VI., . Letters Patent of Licence to William 
 
 Donyngton, John Michell and John Whityng chaplain, to grant 
 to the Master and In-ethren of the Guild of our Lord Jesus Christ 
 in the City of Coventre the reversion of four messuages, a mill and 
 a piece of land whereon stands a chapel built in honour of St. 
 George, of the yearly value of forty shillings, which John Cook 
 and his wife Alice hold tor their lives in survivorship, and also of 
 Licence to the Master and brethren of the said Guild to enter 
 upon and hold the said messuages to themselves and their suc- 
 cessors, on the deaths of the aforesaid Lawrence and Alice, the 
 Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding, the said Licence being 
 gi'anted to the said Guild in part satisfaction of the grant, Avhereby 
 Richard II. gave Licence to the Master and brethren of the same 
 Guild to acquire and hold lands to the yearly value of eight marks, 
 for finding a chaplain to celebrate divine rites daily for the souls 
 of the Founders of the said Guild, and of all who have died in 
 the faith. ... ,.. ... ... ... ... ,, 10 
 
 B 48. 
 
 B 47 19 Henry VI., January 25th. — Letters Patent of Inspeximus and 
 Confirmation of the Letters Patent, dated by Henry V. in the first 
 year of his reign, in confirmation of the Letters Patent, whereby 
 Henry IV. in his 8th regnal year granted to the Mayor, bailiffs 
 and community of Coventre and their successors for ever, that no 
 more or other Guilds than those at present existing in Coventre 
 should ever be established or ordained within the said city. 
 
 23 Henry VI., July 7th. — Charter of Confirmation of Henry the 
 Second's Charter to the Burgesses of Coventre : With further 
 Grant by Henry VI. to the Mayor bailiffs and community of the 
 town of Coventre, of Licence to hold yearly a fair in the said town 
 for eight days, beginning "die Veneris" next following the Feast 
 of Corpus Christi in each year, as freely and wholly as they have 
 hitherto from ancient time held in the same town a yearly iair for 
 one day, to wit, on the morrow of the Feast of Corpus Christi in 
 each year. 
 
 B 49. 25 Henry VI., October 21st. — General Pardon to the Master brethren 
 and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Mary 
 Virgin, St. John the Baptist and St. Katherine the Virgin of 
 Coventre, of all offences committed by them before the 9th day of 
 April last past. 
 
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 B 50. 12 Edward IV., June 20th — Letters Patent of a Special Pardon to the 
 Mayor, bailiffs and community of the City of Coventre of all offences 
 committed by them before the last day of September, in the said 
 King's 11th regnal year. ... ... ... ... Case 11 
 
 B 51. 1 Heniy VII., January 31st. — Letters, under the Sign Manual and 
 Privy Seal, by Henry the Seventh to the Mayor and Justices of 
 the Peace of Coventre : Enjoining the said Mayor and Justices of 
 the Peace to permit no citizen nor inhabitant of their city to be 
 
 retained by any man, except as "dwellyng servant or his 
 
 necessarie office accordyng to our lawes and statutes therfore 
 made and ordered." 
 
 B 52. 1 Henry VII., March 7th. — Letters Patent of General Pardon to the 
 Mayor, bailiffs and community of the town of Coventre of all 
 offences committed by them before November 7th of the said year, 
 
 B 53. 23 Henry VII., March 3rd. — Letters Patent of Licence to the Master 
 brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist, St. Katherine the Vu-gin of 
 of Coventre, to hold lands, tenements and rents, &c., to the 
 yearly value of 5 0£., the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding, 
 for the support of a chaplain to perform sacred services, prayers 
 and obsequies, and of twelve poor men and one woman, to offer 
 prayers for the King's health so long as he shall be living, and for 
 his soul when he shall have died, and for the good estate of the 
 brethren and sisters of the aforesaid Guild while they shall be 
 living, and for their souls when they shall have died, and especially 
 for the soul of Thomas Bonde late of the City of Coventre, and for 
 the souls of all who have died in the Faith, in a certain chapel and 
 house in a certain place called Bablake in the aforesaid city, now 
 newly built and constructed to the honour of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 B 54. 23 Henry VII. (?), May 27th. — Letters Patent, addressed to the Sheriffs, 
 of the City of Coventre, embodying a Proclamation to be published 
 at divers places of the said City and County thereof, to inform the 
 people of the differences between English " grotes and double 
 plackes" which are so dipt, w^orn and diminished as not to be 
 rated as good coin, and those " grotes and double plackes " which, 
 although they be in some degree worn, defaced and diminished, 
 are to be rated and accepted by the King's subjects, as good and 
 lawful English money. ... ... ... ... ... Drawer 1. 
 
 B 55. 1 Henry VIII. — Letters Patent of a General Pardon to the Mayor, 
 baiUffs and community of all offences, committed by them before 
 the 23rd day of April last past. ... ... ... ... Case 13 
 
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 B 56. 
 
 B 57. 
 
 B 58. 
 
 1 Heniy VIII., May 21fct. — Letters Patent of a General Pardon to the 
 Master brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, tlu^ 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist and St. Katherine the 
 Virgin of Coventre, of all offences committed by the said Guild 
 before the 23rd of April last past. ... 
 
 14 Henry VIII., July 11th.— Letters Patent of the Grant for life to 
 the King's well-beloved and faithful Ralph Swillyngton esquire of 
 the office of Steward of the King's lordship or manor of Cheiles- 
 more in the county of the City of Coventre, and of all the King's 
 manors, lands and tenements, &c., within the same county of the 
 same city, and also of the office or offices of Master of the King's 
 Park of Cheilesmore, and of the veneiy of the same park, and 
 Keeper of the King's woods within the aforesaid lordships, manors 
 and lands, &c. 
 
 14 Henry VIII., (October 3rd. — Letters dated under the Privy Seal, 
 in which the King promises to repay to the lenders all the divers 
 sums of money advanced to him by way of loan, for the main- 
 tenance of his wars against France and Scotland, by persons of the 
 City of Coventre whose names are set forth in an indented 
 schedule, and whose contributions of money amoimt in the whole 
 to " oone thowsand and nyne poundes thrytten shillinges four 
 penys." 
 
 B 59. 
 
 14 Henry VIII., November 17th. — Letters under the Privy Seal, 
 whereby the said King promises to repay divers sums, amounting 
 in the whole the sum of £'36 G 8, advanced by divers persons of 
 Coventre (whose names are given in an annexed schedule) by way 
 of loan to the said King, for the maintenance of his wars "agaynste 
 Fraimce and Scotland." 
 
 B 60. 15 Henry VIII., May 19th.— Letters under the Privy Seal, whereby 
 the King promises to repay divers and numerous sums of money 
 (amounting in all to ^150 11 0), advanced to him by way of 
 loan by 194 persons of the City of Coventre, to Avit, persons 
 " haveyng landes and tenementes frome the value of xx£. to the 
 yearly value of xxs., and also that have moveable goodes frome the 
 value of xx£. to the value of fyve powndes within the Cytte of 
 Coventre and presyncte of the same"; the names of the several 
 lenders and the various sums lent by them being set forth in t n 
 annexed schedule. 
 
 B 61. 16 Henry VIII., April 25th. — Blank Letters of Commission under the 
 Great Seal, appointing some person or persons, whose names do 
 not appear, to levy and gather the moneys granted by the King's 
 
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 B 62. 
 
 B 63. 
 
 loving subjects in Coventry " towards the recovery of" the King's 
 " crown and realme of Fraunce and dyvers other domynyons and 
 
 possessions vyghtefully ajjperteigning within the same" to the 
 
 said King. 
 
 17 Henry VIII., November 6th. — Letters Patent of Mandate, 
 addi-essed to the Mayor and Sheriffs and all right-minded persons 
 of every degi-ee and condition in Coventre to take measures for 
 arresting and bringing to punishment the perverse and ill-disposed 
 persons, who are set on renewing the riotous assemblies and 
 disorderly routs in Coventre against the Mayor, Aldermen and 
 burgesses of the said city, that were recently suppressed by the 
 punishment and correction of divers persons, guilty of taking part 
 in the same disturbances. 
 
 28 Henry VIII., May 10th. — Letters Patent of Inspeximus and 
 Confirmation of a Chartei- (stated in the present Letters Patent 
 to liave been dated by Henry V. in his seventeenth regnal year, 
 whereas Henry V. reigned for no more than nine years, Jit'e 
 months and eleven days), granting Licence to the Cutetrs and 
 Fullers of the Guild founded to the honour of the Nativity of 
 Jesus Christ of Coventry to acquire lands, tenements and rents to 
 the yearly value of ten marks, to find a chaplain to celebrate divine 
 rites daily for the souls of the founders of the said Guild and for 
 the souls of all who have died in the faith ; it been stated in the 
 said Charter that the King Henry, who granted the Letters of 
 Licence, did so on the understanding that his progenitor Richard 
 II. had in his time granted Licence to the same Guild, to acquire 
 and hold lands, &c., to the yearly value of eight marks, the 
 Statute of Mortmain notwithstandino-. 
 
 The curious error as to the date of the original Grant of 
 Licence to acquire and hold lands to the yearly value of ten marks 
 reappears in the Letters Patent of Inspeximus and Confirmation 
 of 8 Elizabeth, June 1st, that is noticed in a later page of this 
 catalogue, and appears from the last named Letters Patent to 
 have figured in the Letters Patent dated by Edward VI. as \\'ell 
 as in the Letters Patent dated by Henry VIII. in confirmation 
 the faulty charter. 
 
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 Henry VIII., March 11th. — -Letters Patent, whereby the King- 
 granted to his servant John Hygford, one of the dapifers of the 
 same King's chamber, the office of bailiff of the Manor of Chellys- 
 more in the county of the City of Coventre, and the Keepershij) 
 of the said manor, and the place of Keeper of the park of Chellys- 
 more, to have and enjoy the same offices with all the wages, fees 
 
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 and perquisites pertaining to them for the term of his life, from 
 the time when the same offices shall become vacant and revert to 
 the King's hands by the death or retirement or forfeiture of John 
 Dyngley, one of the dapifers of the aforesaid chamber, to whom 
 the same offices were granted for life by Letters Patent, dated by 
 the same King on 6th February in the 15th year of his reign. ... 
 
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 B 65. 31 Henry VIII., February 20th. Lease for twenty-one years at a 
 yearly rent of £4 14s. 4d., by the said King to Henry Over, of an 
 orchard called " le greate Orchard " containing eight acres, lying 
 without the precinct of the late Prioiy or Cathedral Church in 
 Coventre recently dissolved, and another orchard called " le lytle 
 orchard " containing two acres and a rood, late in the hands of 
 the same Priory or Cathedral Church, and a piece of standing 
 water called " the Swannes poole " and containing an acre, and 
 another piece of still water called " Newe Poole " containing an 
 acre, which orchards and pools formerly belonged to the said late 
 Priory or Cathedral Church ; the Lease being granted on the 
 advice of the Council of the Court of Augmentations of the 
 Revenues of the Crown. 
 
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 B 66. 
 
 33 Henry VIII., June 26th. Lease for twenty-one years, at a yearly 
 rent of forty-one shillings and eight pence, of two tenements, two 
 gardens, two orchards, two crofts of arable land and six acres of 
 pasture in Stoke, Wyken and Biggen in the county of the city 
 of Coventre, called Biggeucroft &c., late belonging to the now 
 dissolved Priory or Cathedral Church of Coventre, by the said 
 Lord the King Henry VIII. to " Hugh Wyatt of London 
 mynsterell ; " the said lease being granted at the advice of the 
 Council of the Court of Augmentations of the revenues of the 
 King's Crown. 
 
 B 67. 
 
 34 Henry VIII. , August 20th. Letters under the Privy Seal, by the 
 said King to the " Chamberers," i.e. the Chamberlains of the City 
 of Coventre : commanding them in vehement and strenuous terms 
 to pay forthwith, under a penalty of 100£ in case of further 
 remissness, the sum of twelve shillings of arrears of rent, issuing 
 from a tenement in Wellestret in Coventre, to the Receiver of the 
 " Revenues of thaugmentacions of our Crowne in our Countie of 
 Warwick." 
 
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 B 68. 36 Henry VIIL, February 12th. General Pardon for all offences to 
 the Mayor, sheriffs, bailiffs and community of the City of 
 Coventry. 
 
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 B 69. 
 
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 B71. 
 
 B72. 
 
 B73. 
 
 B 74. 
 
 38 Henry VIII., May 16th. Letters Patent of Commission, addressed 
 to John Hertford mayor of the City of Coventre, Sir George 
 Throgmarton (sic) knt., and Sir Fulke Grevyle knt. ; appointing the 
 addressees to be commissioners to confer with the King's subjects 
 in Coventre, and to take needful steps for raising in the said city 
 a contribution towards the aid and reUef of the King, in his need 
 to resist and repel his enemy, the King of the French. 
 
 Henry VIII. Letters under the Privy Seal by the said King to the 
 Sheriffs of the City of Coventre ; Requiring them, under a penalty 
 of 500£. in case of remissness on their part, to appear forthwith 
 personally before Sir Robert Southwell knt. and Bartholomew 
 Westby one of the Barons of the said King's Exchequer at West- 
 minster, as well to pay 200£ due to the same King for the fee- 
 farm of the town of Coventre, as to account for the arrears of the 
 same 
 
 Henry VIII., July 9th. Letters of Mandate under the Privy Seal, 
 addressed to certain persons, whose names do not appear in the 
 letters : Requiring the said pereons to make enquiry touching the 
 truth and justice of the complaint of William Coke against one 
 Richard Marlowe, set forth in an accompanying Bill and Answer, 
 and to certify the King and his Council of the truth of the matter. 
 
 1 Edward VI., May 8th. Letters Patent of a Lease for twenty-one 
 
 years, at a yearly rent of forty-four shillings of lawful money of 
 England, of the Little Park of Cheilsmore (" totum illud clausum 
 
 terre nostrum vocatum the litle Fark .jacens et exlstens in 
 
 comitatu Warr' ac parcellam manerii de Chelismore in eodem 
 comitatu Warr', quodquidem manerium est parcella terrarum et 
 possessionum ducatus nostri Cornubie,") by the said King to 
 William Wightman gentleman 
 
 2 Edward VI., December 13th, Letters Patent of the Grant, to the 
 
 Mayor bailiffs and community of the City of Coventre, of the 
 church of Bablacke in the said city and the campanile and 
 cemetery of the said church, to have and to hold the same of the 
 said King his heirs and successors by the service of one penny 
 yearly in free burgage : With further Grant to the same Mayor 
 bailiffs and community of the issues, rents, revenues and profits of 
 the same church, and of the bells, lead, iron, glass, jewels and 
 ornaments belonging to the same church 
 
 6 Edward VI., March 10th. Lease for twenty-one years, dated by 
 the said King, at a yearly rent of fifty-thi'ee shillings and four 
 pence, of a messuage and tenement in Earl Strete, late in the 
 
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 occupation of Alice Enderby, and now in the tenure of William 
 Enderby, and another messuage or tenement in the tenure of 
 William Herdy, to the said William Enderby. 
 
 6 Edward VI., September 18th. Letters Patent of a grant (made in 
 consideration of a payment of £1,31.') 1 8) in fee-farm tor ever to 
 the Mayor bailiffs and community of the City of Coventre and 
 their successors, of a large number of messuages, lands, tenements 
 and rents, &c., formerly belonging to the late Guilds of Corpus 
 Christi and St. Trinity of Coventre, and messuages, tenements 
 and rents, &c , formerly pertaining to divers Chantries in the same 
 city, and of divers rents and moneys heretofore held in trust for 
 the celebration of yearly Obites in Coventre or elsewhere, for 1 he 
 souls of deceased persons : To be held by the aforesaid Mayor and 
 bailiffs and community of the said King his heirs and successors 
 as of the manor of Greenwich co. Kent, at a yearly rent of 90^. 
 
 1 Elizabeth, June 1st. Letters Patent of Inspeximus and Confirmation 
 of Edward the Sixth's Letters Patent of Laspeximus of the Letters 
 Patent, whereby Henry VIII. in his 28th year inspected and 
 confirmed a Charter, giving Licence to the Cutters and Fullers of 
 the Guild of the Nativity of Jesus Christ in Coventre, to hold 
 lands and tenements and rents to the yearly value of ten marks, 
 in order to find a chaplain, &c. — N.B. In these Letters Patent 
 reappears the error of the draughtsman who, in Letters Patent 
 of 10th March, 28 Henry VLIL, represented that the Charter of 
 Licence was a Charter " Henrici Quinti," and was dated in the 
 17th I'egnal year of Henry v., who did not live to complete his 
 10th regnal year 
 
 10 Elizabeth, March 22nd. Letters Patent for the regulation and 
 encouragement in Coventre of the manufacture of two sorts of 
 woolen cloths commonly called Ulterfynes and Cromple Lysts, now 
 usually made at Armentiers in Flaunders : It being granted, 
 during pleasure, that no other person or persons than the Mayor 
 bailiffs and community of Coventre, and such other persons in 
 Coventre as are appointed by virtue of the same Letters Patent shall 
 be allowed in England, or in any other of the Queen's dominions 
 to make or cause to be made " any of the said sort of clothes 
 called Ulterfynes or Croraplelystes or any other Wollen Clothes 
 
 lyke thereunto." In connection with these Letters Patent, 
 
 mention may be made of a remarkable Indenture (put away in the 
 Muniment Room with the " Miscellaneous Matters " ) made on the 
 same day between Queen Elizabeth of the one part and the Mayor 
 bailiffs and community of Coventre of the other part, for the more 
 
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 precise regulation of the manufacture of and trade In the same 
 Ulterfyne or Utterfyne clothes and Cromple Lists : containing 
 orders for the breadth, length, weight, and quality of the several 
 pieces of the same cloths, and settling the penalties and punish- 
 ments to be inflicted on manufacturers and dealers who disobey 
 the same orders. 
 
 B 78. 11 Elizabeth, July 18th. Letters Patent of Commission, addressed to 
 Ambrose Earle of Warwlcke, Robert Earle of Leycester, Sir 
 Robert Throkmorton knt.. Sir William Wlgston knt.. Sir Thomas 
 Lucie knt., Sir William Devereux knt , and Clemente Throkmorton 
 and John Fisher of Pakington esquires : Directing the addressees 
 to associate the Mayor of the City of Coventre for the time being 
 with themselves, for the execution of a commission to enquire 
 respecting all ofiences, committed since the 5th of April last past 
 against the laws for maynteynlng of horses and the provision of 
 armour and weapons, and to take muster of the able men of 
 Warwickshire. 
 
 B 79 14 Elizabeth, July 12th. Letters patent, granted at the request of 
 Robert Earl of Leicestre, for the reparation and maintenance of 
 the Hospital of Bablake within the City of Coventrie, of Licence 
 to the Mayor bailiffs and community of the said city to acquire 
 and hold manors, messuages, lands and tenements to the yearly 
 value of 100£, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 B 80. 15 Elizabeth, April 24th. Letters Patent of Commission of Array, 
 appointing Robert Earl of Leicestre, the Mayor of the City of 
 Coventre for the time being. Sir Fulke Grevlll knt.. Sir William 
 Wlgston knt., Edward Egllonby esq., Thomas Rylay, Edward 
 Damperd, Thomas Dudley, Richard Smythe and Henry Kirden 
 aldermen of the said city to be Commissioners of Array, To muster 
 and drill all the men-at-arms above sixteen and under sixty years 
 of age in the City of Coventre, as well horse as foot, archers and 
 sclopetaril {i.e., soldiers armed with arquebuses or carbines) and to 
 Instruct in military duty all the youths and men hitherto ignorant 
 of military affairs in the said city. — Attached to this commission 
 appears in English, " A dlreccion for the Commissioners for the 
 musters in the Citle of Coventrie, howe they shall precede in the 
 execution of the said Commission." 
 
 B 81. 17 Elizabeth, June 22nd. Letters Patent of Inspeximus of certain 
 Letters Patent, dated on 11th November 15 Elizabeth, of a 
 Commission to Edwarde Holte esq., Humfrey Ferrers esq., 
 Edward Egllonby esq. and Arthur Gregory gentleman, the 
 Queen's feodary in the county of Warwick, Appointing them 
 
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 to enquire and ascertain by the oaths of good and loyal men, of 
 what lands and tenements John Nethermyll, late an alderman of 
 the City of Coventre, held on the day of his death, and to return 
 their inquisition into Chancery for the Queen's information ; with 
 Inspeximus of the Inquisition, dated on 9th May, 17 Elizabeth, 
 whereby the Commissioners certified that on the day of his death 
 the said John Nethermyll was seised in his own demesne as of fee 
 of and in the Manor of Eccleshale with its appurtenances in 
 Eccleshale and Folleshill co. Coventre, and also of four messuages, 
 three hundred acres of arable land, one hundred acres of meadow, 
 two hundred acres ot pasture, four hundred acres of wood, and one 
 hundred acres of scrub and briery, and of ten librates and six 
 solidates of i-ent with their appurtenances in Eccleshale and 
 FoUeshull aforesaid, and that the said manor, four messuages and 
 other premises m Eccleshale and FolleshuU aforesaid are held and 
 at the time of the said John Nethermylle's death were held of the 
 Mayor bailiffs and community of the City of Coventre, as of the 
 manor of Chellesmore, otherwise called their Manor of Coventre &c. 
 
 B 82. 19 Elizabeth, May 31st. Letters Patent of Commission of Array 
 addressed to Robert Earl of Leicestre, the Mayor of Coventre for 
 the time being, Sir Fulke Greville knt., Sir William Wigston 
 bart, Edward Egliambye (sic) esq., Thomas Ryley, Edward 
 Damperde and Thomas Dudley aldermen of the said city to be 
 Commissioners for mustering, arraying and inspecting and drilling 
 all the men at arms, horse and foot, archers and sclopetarii (to wit, 
 soldiers armed with arquebuses or carbines) and all other able men 
 within the City of Coventre, &c. 
 
 B 83. 40 Elizabeth, October 30th. Letters Patent of a Grant to Richard 
 Butler, in consideration of thirty-three shillings and four pence 
 paid by the grantee, of Licence to sell, alienate and convey to John 
 Stapleton esq. for ever, a messuage with a dovecote, a garden, an 
 
 orchard, acres of pasture, an acre of wood, two acres of arable 
 
 land, &c., in the oity and county of the city of Coventre. 
 
 B 84. 7 James I., July 15th. Letters Patent of a Grant for ever (made in 
 consideration of a sum of 100£ paid to the King by the grantees) 
 to Edward Stapleton esq., Henry Sewall of Coven trie draper and 
 Hnmfrey Wightwick of the same city grocer and their heirs and 
 assigns, of the Almeshouse in Bablacke built by Thomas Bonde 
 and the chapel and chamber adjoining the same Almeshouse, and 
 of a close of pasture called Hickfield in Goundou co. Warwick, 
 and of lands tenements and x-ents &c. in Old Fillonghley, Newe 
 Fillonghly, Corley, Alspade and Merelbrookes co. Warwick, and of 
 
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 a messuage called the Moate House in Spoonestreete in Coventrie, 
 and of divers other lands and tenements &c. in Coventrie and 
 elsewhere. ... ... ... ... ... ... Case 1& 
 
 B 85. 2 Charles I., October 11th. Letters Patent of a Commission, for 
 raising a loan in the City and County of the City of Coventry ; 
 Appointing WiUiam Ear] of Northampton, Robert Earl of Mon- 
 mouth, Foulke Lord Brooke and the Mayor and aldermen of 
 Coventry to be Commissioners for the said purpose. ... ... „ 19 
 
 B 86. 18 Charles I., April 4th. Letters Patent of Commission and Mandate, 
 Appointing the Mayor of Coventre for the time being, and Henry 
 Million, John Clarke, Thomas Ward, William Jetfyn and John 
 Baker, aldermen of the said city, and John Hales and Richard 
 Greene esquires and Thomas Basnett to be commissioners for 
 levying a proportion, and Requiring them to levy the same 
 proportion of the money voted by the present parliament by an 
 annexed Statute, entitled " An Act for the raisemg and levyinge 
 of moneyes for the necessary defence and great affaires of the 
 kingdomes of England and Ireland and for the payment of debt 
 undertaken by the Parliament," And further Requiring the sheriffs 
 of the said city to aid in every way the said Commissioners to 
 execute their commission. ... ... ... ... „ 20 
 
 B 87. 15 Charles II., July 6th. Letters Patent dated by King Charles the 
 Second to the Mayor bailiffs and community of the city and 
 county of the city of Coventre, for the reconstitution of the 
 Corporation ; With Inspeximus and Confirmation of Charters 
 dated by previous sovereigns, to wit, James I., Elizabeth, Mary, 
 Edward VI., Henry VIIL, Henry VII., Edward IV., Henry VI., 
 Henry IV., Richard II., Edward III., Edward II., Henry III., 
 Henry II. ... ... ... ... ... ... „ 20 
 
 B 68. 35 Charles II., October 31st. Letters Patent of Concessions and Ordi- 
 nances for the better government of the Borough and City of 
 Coventre. ... ... ... ... ... ... „ 21 
 
 B 89. 6 William IV., March 7th. Letters Patent of a Grant to the Mayor 
 aldermen and burgesses of the Borough of Coventry ; Granting 
 that " a separate Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall 
 henceforth continue to be holden in and for " the said " Borough 
 according to the provisions " of an Act of Parliament passed in 
 the said year of the said King's reign and entitled " An Act to 
 ju'ovide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England 
 and Wales." ... ... ... ... ... ... ,, 22
 
 ///. Deeds : — Grants for ever. Quitclaims, Leases for 
 life or lives in Survivorship, Leases for terms 
 of years, Agreements, Obligatoiy Bonds, Powers 
 of Attorney, &c., &c. 
 
 (a) LABELLED WRITINGS. 
 
 C L 
 
 C 2. 
 
 C 3. 
 
 C 4. 
 
 C 5. 
 
 C 6. 
 
 C 7. 
 
 C 8. 
 
 Deed of Sale and quitclaim by Vincent the son of Reginald 
 
 Kempe to Robert the son of Roger de Cornlegh of a rent of 
 twelve pence, which William Le Knave used to pay yearly to 
 the said Vincent, from land which the Knave held of the same 
 Vincent. 
 
 Gift for ever of a yearly rent of four pence 
 
 issuing from a 
 shop in Coventre, and of a meadow in Spanne Field, at a yearly 
 rent to the grantor and his heirs of a clove, by Adam Haldeyn to 
 John de Lodelawe. 
 
 Gift for ever of a pasture (pastura mea de Sponnd Commun) 
 
 by John Le Flecher, with the assent of his wife Alice, to Philipp 
 de Winchcumba. 
 
 Gift for ever of a piece of land with the buildings upon it 
 
 in Stoke, by Robert Stony of Stoke to Walter Hakon. 
 
 Release and Quitclaim, in respect to a yearly rent of twelve 
 
 pence issuing from a tenement in Sponn Street in Coventre, by 
 Gerard de Allispack to Robert de Hanneley and his heirs. 
 
 Gift for ever of a curtilage in Sponne Street in Coventre, 
 
 with the houses thereon, by Thomas Hayldoyn to Robert de 
 Kanneley of Coventre. 
 
 Gift for ever, at a yearly rent of a pair of gloves " de precio 
 
 unius oboli," by Walter the son of Atherard the Painter of 
 Coventre to John the son of William the Painter " in liberum 
 maritagium cum Wyinarkia filia Galfridi zonarii," of a piece of 
 land in the street of Cheylismor in Coventre. 
 
 Gift for ever of a messuage in the Upper Park Street (" in 
 
 superiori vico parci de Coventre ") by Christiana de Milnehale in 
 her virginity and lawful power to Geoffrey Le Luffe of Coventre. 
 
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 C 9. 
 
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 C 11. 
 
 C 12. 
 
 C 13. 
 
 C 14. 
 
 C 15. 
 
 C 16. 
 
 C 17. 
 
 C 18. 
 
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 Gift in almoiae for ever of a meadow within and without 
 
 the foss in the town of Sowe, by Walter the son of Symon the 
 clerk of Sowe to William the Prior of Coventre and the monks 
 serving God there. 
 
 Quitclaim in respect to a messuage in Spanne Street in 
 
 Coventre, by Agnes the daughter of Haylward the tanner to 
 Hugh the son of Richard the son of Agnes. 
 
 Gift for ever of a messuage in Spanne Street in Coventre 
 
 by Walter le Marescal of Warewyk, with the consent of his wife 
 Agnes, to Hugh the son of Richard the son of Agnes. 
 
 ■ Gift for ever of a meadow called " Enedemedwe" by Robert 
 
 le Busservile to John de Hwttele. 
 
 Gift for ever of a piece of land in Goseforde Street in 
 
 Coventre, by Henry the son of William Pie to Alexander de 
 Gloverina. 
 
 Gift by way of a marriage-portion, of a piece of land in 
 
 Sponne Street in Coventre, to Matilda the daughter of Elias Le 
 Waffrer and her affianced husband, Thomas the son of Thomas the 
 mason of Coventre, and the heirs issuing from the same bride and 
 bride-groom, by William the Chaplain (son of Roger Le Waffrer 
 of Coventre) the uncle of the aforesaid Matilda. 
 
 Gift of sixteen denarates of yearly rent, issuing from a 
 
 croft in Coventre, by Godfrey the son of Alwin to William the son 
 of Simon the Baker ; a yearly rent of four silver pence being 
 reserved to the said Godfrey and his heirs. 
 
 Grant by Adam de Kinesbure of one half of his curtilage 
 
 without Gosford, at a yearly rent of four shillings, to Roger de 
 Bulbenhall and his heirs. 
 
 Grant in perpetual fee-farm, at a yearly rent of twelve silver 
 
 pence, of a piece of land with a house upon it in Lesser Park 
 Street outside the bar (extra barram), by to. 
 
 Grant in perpetual fee-farm, at a yearly rent of five shillings 
 
 of silver, of a curtilage with a garden in Coventre, by Alexander 
 the Vintner of Coventre to Henry Oky and his heirs and assigns. 
 
 Quitclaim, in respect to a piece of land in Coventre, by 
 
 Matilda formerly the wife of Henry Beket in her pure widowhood 
 to John de Wytele cook. 
 
 Case 22 
 
 „ 22 
 
 „ 22 
 
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 Drawer 1
 
 41 
 
 C20. 
 
 C 21. 
 
 C22. 
 
 Acknowledgment and undertaking by Symon Cliatel of 
 
 Cundelin, that in consideration of a grant ot certain land in the 
 town of Cundeline made to him and hia heirs or assigns by the 
 Prior and Convent of Coventre, at a yearly rent of forty silver 
 pence, that he and his heirs or assigns will make two journeys in 
 each year to the church of same Prior and Convent, for view of 
 Frankpledge. 
 
 Sale and quitclaim of a curtilage with a barn in Earl's Street 
 
 in Coventre, by Thomas the son of Ossebert Durdeut of Coventre 
 to Peter Walence of the same place, to have and hold the same 
 for ever of William de Bilney and his heirs, at a yearly rent of 
 two shillings of silver. 
 
 Grant in pure and perpetual almolne, for the health of the 
 
 grantor's soul and of the souls of his grandfather Robert Scot and 
 his father Ralph, of land in Aylwardesick near Whytemor and of 
 land and rents in (/oventre, by William Le Scot to the Lord 
 William the Prior of Coventre and the convent of the same place 
 and their successors. 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 C 23. Quitclaim lor ever, made in consideration of a payment of 
 
 twenty shillings sterling, by Roger de Burtigburi to Alexander 
 the Vintner of Coventre, in respect to a messuage between 
 " Littleparkstreth " on the one part and the land of Richard Le 
 Coupe on the other part. 
 
 C 24. Gift for ever of a yearly rent of twenty pence, issuing from 
 
 a tenement in Stoke, by Richard de St. James in Coventre to 
 Robert de Stoke and his heirs. 
 
 C 25. 
 
 C 26. 
 
 C 27. 
 
 Gift of seven selliones of land in Stoke " in le Hokemllfeld " 
 
 and a yearly rent of eleven pence, issuing from a tenement and 
 messuage in Coventre, by William Blauuchinal to Robert de 
 Stokes and his heirs. 
 
 Acknowledgment by Richard de Willowe, vicar of the 
 
 Church of St. Michael of Coventre, that he and his successors have 
 received of the Prior and Convent of Coventre a grant in fee-farm 
 of a croft in Kunduline for ever, at a yearly rent of two silver 
 shillings. 
 
 Lease for life and for twenty years of lands and tenements 
 
 in Counduline, by John the son of John de Canleye of Sty vechale 
 to Symon Reynale, at a rent of four shillings. 
 
 Case 22
 
 42 
 
 C 28. 
 C 29. 
 
 C 30. 
 
 C 31. 
 C 32. 
 
 C 33. 
 C 34. 
 
 C 35. 
 C-36. 
 C37. 
 
 C 39. 
 
 Quitclaim in respect to a messuage and a virgate of arable 
 
 land in Cesterton by Robert Raysun to Gydon de Tyllelt. 
 
 Gift for ever of twenty-two denarates of rent issuing out of 
 
 two tenements in Coventre, by Margery the widow of Robert de 
 Lodelowe to Robert de Stoke and his wife Joan. 
 
 Gift of a toft and an acre of arable land in the territory of 
 
 Sponn, by Alice the daughter of William de Sponn to Symon de 
 Lymeseye and his heirs, and to any to whom he may assign the 
 same " preterquam domui religiose." 
 
 Sale and quitclaim for ever of land in Fountain Street by 
 
 Hugh de Arraz to William Corduarius. 
 
 Quitclaim by the widow Havyse, daughter of William the 
 
 Palmer, to John de Kendale and his wife Isabella in respect to a 
 messuage in Sponnestret in Coventre. 
 
 Gift in fee-farm, at a yearly rent of twelve silver pence, of 
 
 a piece of land lying outside Gosford, by Brunus Loccarius to 
 Ralph de Grantham. 
 
 Quitclaim, made in consideration of a payment of half-a-mark 
 
 of silver, in respect to a messuage in Whitele and ten acres of 
 arable land in the fields of Whitele, by Roger the son of Ormus to 
 his 1 -roth er Adam and the heirs of the same Adam. 
 
 Gift of a piece of land in Gosseford Street in Coventre by 
 
 Pagan Pake to Henry the son of Henry le Guldineti'e and his heirs. 
 Gift for ever of a curtilage in Spon Street in Coventre, by 
 
 Osbert the son of Jordan the Miller to Symon King. 
 
 Sale and quitclaim of certain land in Park Street in Covintre, 
 
 by William Blod to Richard de Bluke, his heirs and assigns. 
 
 — — — Gift for ever, at a yearly rent of a clove to the gi-antor and 
 his heirs, of a meadow in Coventre near the mills, called the " the 
 Altegeder Milnys " by Robert de Lodelowe to Alexander the vintner 
 of Coventre and his heirs. 
 
 Gift by Sir Thomas Arderne knt. " dominus de Rottel " of 
 
 all his rents in Stoke, Radeford, Cundoline and Coventre, with all 
 homages and services thereto appertaining, to Master Guy de 
 Tyllebrok and his heirs. 
 
 Case 22 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Case 22 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Case 22 
 
 Drawer 2
 
 43 
 
 C 40. 
 
 41. 
 
 C 42. 
 
 C 43. 
 
 C 44. 
 
 45. 
 
 C 46. 
 
 O 47. 
 
 C 48. 
 
 C 49. 
 
 O 50. 
 
 Deed of Gift for ever, by Robert de Eton to his daughter 
 
 Felicia, of a piece of land with a building upon it in the Market of 
 Coventre, where cloth is sold. 
 
 Gift in pex'petual almoine of two solidates of yearly rent, 
 
 issuing from lands in Cundeline and CrowenhuU, by Ilichard 
 Burser of Coventre to William the Prior of Coventre and the 
 monks there serving God, and especially to their Refectorarius. 
 
 Gift in fee-farm, at a yearly rent of four pence, of a piece of 
 
 land in Bishop's Street in Coventre by Amilia the daughter of 
 Herbert, to Richard the son of " Hery de Fonte." 
 
 Gift for ever of two solidates of yearly rent, issuing from a 
 
 messuage in the Greater Park Street by Adam " le La toner " of 
 Coventre to Geoffrey Le Lef of Coventre. 
 
 Gift for ever of lands and tenements, rents and reversions, 
 
 &c. in the town and fields of Coventre by Thomas de Leghtoun of 
 Coventre to the Lady Agnes Hauberch of Schaldeforde. 
 
 Gift for ever of a yearly rent of twenty-eight shillings, 
 
 issuing from land in the territory of Harnhale, by Philipp Barbe 
 of Averil to his brother Thomas. 
 
 Gift of a piece of land in Gosford Street in Covintre, by 
 
 Reginald de Calisby, burgess of Covintre, to his son Symon and 
 the same Symon's heirs. 
 
 Gift for ever of a curtilage in HuUe Street in Coventre, by 
 
 William Seleth of Coventre clerk to John de Hales of Coventre 
 dyer and his Margaret. 
 
 Sale and quitclaim of certain land in Coventre, by Beterice 
 
 the widow of William Bochart to William the son of Symon the 
 Baker of Coventre. 
 
 Gift for ever of land with a building upon it in Sponne 
 
 Street in Coventre, by Henry the son of Thomas the weaver of 
 Coventre to Beatrice the daughter of Adam de Kiderminster, the 
 grantor's sister. 
 
 Quitclaim in respect to certain land with houses upon it in 
 
 Earl Street in Coventre, by Margery the widow of Ralph le 
 Turner of Gloucestre to Henry the Baker and Adam Russel and 
 their wives Agnes and Alice. 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Case 22 
 
 22 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Case 22
 
 44 
 
 C 51. 
 
 C 52. 
 
 C 53. 
 
 C 54. 
 
 C 55. 
 
 C 5G. 
 
 C 57. 
 
 C 58. 
 
 Gift for ever of a curtilage in Lesser Park Street in Co ventre 
 
 and of rents issuing from tenements in the said town, by Basilia, 
 the daughter of Nicholas Bokervile of Coventre, in her pure 
 widowhood, to John the son of Walter Sweteman " le Combere." 
 
 Gift of a stall with its appurtenances in the market of 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Coventre, at a yearly rent of a clove to the grantor, and a rent of 
 nine silver pence to be paid to the High Altar of the Blessed Mary 
 ot Coventre, by Simon " le Botmonger " to Richard de Fonte. 
 
 Gift of fifteen "seliones" of arable land in the town of 
 
 Harnhale, at a yearly rent of eight pence, by William Underwode, 
 formerly the son of Stephen Strownt of Harnhale, to William 
 Huttyg of Coventre and his heirs. 
 
 Gift by the widow Margery Pake, formerly the wife of 
 
 Pagan Pake of Coventre, to her son William his heirs and assigns 
 of certain tenements in Coventre, which descended to the said 
 Margery by inheritance, after the death of her uncle Master 
 Richard the Vintner. 
 
 Grant of a piece of land near the Broad Gate, at a yearly 
 
 rent of four silver shillings, by Hugh the son of Martin to Richard 
 Meu and his heirs. 
 
 Gift in perpetual almoine, for the health of the donor's soul 
 
 and the welfare of the souls of his ancestors and heirs, ot a messuage 
 and divers lands and tenements in Sowe with all things appertain- 
 ing to them, by Peter de Blocksley clerk to God and the Church 
 of the Blessed Mary of Coventre and to Henry the Prior of the 
 said place, and the Monks there serving God. — Also, a duplicate 
 deed of the same Grant. 
 
 Release and Quitclaim for ever, made in consideration of a 
 
 payment of twenty shillings of silver, in respect of one half of a 
 certain messuage with appurtenances in Park Street (in vice parcl) 
 in Coventre, by Hugh Le Bretun of Coventre to Thomas de 
 Fakinham of Coventre. 
 
 Gift for ever in pure almoine, for the welfare of the grantor's 
 
 soul and the souls of his ancestors, of a messuage and piece of 
 land outside the toAvn of Coventre, and a piece of land in the moor 
 of Wytemor, by Peter the son of Gilbert de Blockeleye to God 
 and the Blessed Mary of Coventre, and to Henry the Prior, and 
 the Monks there serving God and their successors. 
 
 Case 22 
 
 Drawer 2
 
 45 
 
 C 59. — Gift by William the son of Hugh " locar' " of Coventre of 
 
 two shops in Earl's Street towards Goseford to Symon Pymme 
 upon his free marriage with the grantor's sister Alice (" in liberum 
 maritagium cum Alicia sorore mea"); a yearly rent of twelve 
 silver pence being reserved to the grantor and his heirs. 
 
 C 60. — Quitclaim, made in her jrare widowhood by Alice formerly 
 
 the wife of Roger Gardiner of Coventre to God and the Church 
 of the Blessed Mary of Coventre, and to the Prior and Monks 
 there serving God, in respect to her dower in lands in the territory 
 of Harnhal formerly pertaining to her said husband, and also in 
 respect to rents in Coventry which he sold to the said Prior and 
 Monks. 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 C 61. Gift by Richard " le brochere " of Coventre of a piece of 
 
 land with houses upon it in Earl's Street, which extends from the 
 King's highway to the Castle Ditch (" extendit se a Via Regia 
 usque ad fossatum quod vocatur le Casteldich) and a curtilage to 
 Jolm de Rydewale on his free marriage with the grantor's 
 daughter Margery, to have and hold the said land and curtilage to 
 the same John and Margery and their lawfully begotten heirs 
 from the body of the said Margery (" dictis Johanni et Margerie 
 et heredibus a corpore dicte Margerie legitime procreatis "). 
 
 C 62. Gift in pure and perpetual almolue, for the welfare of the 
 
 soul of the gi'antor and the souls of his M'ife and ancestors and 
 successors of a messuage at Spaini (" ad Spannam ") in Coventre, 
 with its buildings, garden, dove-house and curtilage, and of a croft 
 above the garden called " Statherscroft," and of another croft 
 called " Cristescroft," extending from the aforementioned croft to 
 " Dedelone," and of eight " seyliones " of arable land in the field of 
 Spanne, and of five other " seyliones" in the same field, and of an 
 enclosed meadow in the same field, and of the meadow which the 
 gi-antor bought of William Payn, with an annexed place which the 
 grantor had of the Prior of Coventre, and of the oven which the 
 grantor bought of Richard de Wygorn' in " Cheilesmor Lone" 
 with its buildings rents and appurtenances, by Philipp de Winclie- 
 cumb to God and the church of the Blessed Mary of Coventre, 
 and to William the Prior and the convent of the same place, and 
 their successors. 
 
 C 63. Henry III., 1239 A.D. Lease for twelve years of a piece of land 
 with houses upon it in Fountain Street in Coventre, by Adam 
 the son of Andrew of Coventre to Alexander de Ruton. 
 
 Case 22
 
 46 
 
 € 64. 
 
 C 65. 
 
 Henry III., 1240 A.D. Gift for ever of a piece of land beyond 
 Gosseforde in the town of Coventre, by Philip le Aimer to Hugh 
 Pipe. 
 
 Henry III., 1256 A.D. Agreement made by Philip de Winchecumbe 
 of the one part and John le Flecher of the other, For the determina- 
 tion of their discord respecting certain common pasture m the 
 fields of Sponn. 
 
 C66. 
 
 C 67. 
 
 Henry III., 1257 A.D. Lease for five years of a piece of land in 
 Bishop's Street in Coventre, by William the son of Piobert le 
 Redeknave to Hawise the widow of Robert de Feugere of Coventre. 
 
 C 68. 
 
 C 69. 
 
 C 70. 
 
 C 71. 
 
 € 72. 
 
 41 Henry III. Gift for ever by William the son of Robert le Redeknave 
 of Coventre to Richard the son of William the Weaver of a piece 
 of land with a house upon it in Bishop's street in Coventre, which 
 land Hawisia, formerly the wife of Adam Le Redeknave, held of 
 the grantor in the name of dower : The witnesses of the deed 
 being Ricardus de Bokvill then bailiff " ex parte Comitis," William 
 Lewin then bailiff " ex parte Prioris," John Lysner, Richard de 
 Fonte, Roger Molendarius, Alexander de Gloveruia, John le Blund, 
 John Yngeram, Hugh le Bretun clei k and others. 
 
 18 Edward I. Gift for ever of a mill in the manor of Shettle called 
 
 the Bussete MUle with all easements &c. pertaining to the same 
 mill, by Hugh de Vienna clerk to John de Langele and Richard 
 de Nora merchants of Coventre. 
 
 19 Edward I. Release and quitclaim, in respect to a messuage in 
 
 Earl's Street in Coventre, by Richard Le Bouldere and his wife 
 Mary, daughter of Ralph de Stuvechale to Richard de la Muyre of 
 Coventre merchant. 
 
 22 Edward I. Gift for ever of a tenement in the Greater Park Street, 
 by Geoffrey Le Lek of Coventre to John Le Ken and Hugh de 
 Meriton of Coventre merchants. 
 
 22 Edward I. Lease for six years, at a yearly rent of nine pence and 
 
 one half-penny, of a part of the lessor's land towards Wyteraor, by 
 Susan the widow of William Hornewod to the Prior of Coventre. 
 
 23 Edward I. Gift for ever by Henry Le Marchal of Coventre and his 
 
 wife Matilda of a pai't of their tenement towards the Broad Gate 
 in Coventre to Symon de Coleshul. 
 
 Case 22 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 Drawer 2
 
 47 
 
 C 73. 23 Edward I. Gift for ever of a yearly rent of eleven pence of silver, 
 issuing i'rom a tenement in Greater l*ark Street, by William del 
 Blaunchenal of Stoke and his wife Isabel to Robert de Stoke. 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 C 74. 25 Edward I. Gift for ever of two solidates of yearly rent, issuing 
 from a messuage in Greater Park Street in Coventre, by Geoffrey 
 le Lek to Adam le Latoner. 
 
 C 75. 25 Edward I. Release and quitclaim, in respect to certain land in 
 Stokes in Le Hokenylefelt, to wit, eighty " selliones " of land, by 
 Isabel widow of William Blanchynal of Stokes to Robert de 
 Stokes and his wife Joan. 
 
 C 76. 25 Edward I. Gift for ever of a piece of land with its appurtenances 
 in the Lesser Park Street in Coventre by John Holoway the 
 miller to John le Wedon the Brewer ; the grantor's circular seal, 
 attached to the deed, bearing on its margin the legend " IHS. 
 Molendarius." 
 
 C 77. 27 Edward I. Gift for ever of a virgate of a meadow in Stoke, by 
 Geoffrey Scorchevile of Stoke to William Arthingworth of 
 Coventre merchant. 
 
 C 78. 
 
 C 79. 
 
 27 P^dward I. Grant for lives in survivorship, by Joan formerly the 
 wife of John Corvyn of Stokes to Robert de Stokes and his wife 
 Joan, of rents and services issuing from tenements in Coventre, 
 and also of all liberties commodities and easements which the 
 grantor has, had or was able to have in Coventre after the deatli 
 of her ancestor, PhilipjD of Barbedaueryl. 
 
 28 Edward I. Quitclaim for ever by Margery the daughter of Robert 
 Herbert of Coventre in her pure widowhood to John de Hales of 
 Coventre dyer and his wife Margaret, in respect to a piece of land 
 lying near the highway leading from Coventre towards Harnhale 
 " inter terram hospitalis Sancti Johannis de Coventre et terram 
 Johannis le Gaunter ex una parte et terram domini Prioris et 
 Conventus de Coventre que vocatur gardinerescroft." ... 
 
 C 80. 1301. Gift by Ralph de Helgrave in Coventre to William de Shepeye 
 of Coventre merchant, of a yearly rent of twelve pence, issuing 
 from a messuage in Gosseforde Street. 
 
 C 81. 30 Edward I. Gift for ever of a piece of land in the Greater Park 
 Street of Coventre, by William le Glawrihte to Hugh de Meryton. 
 
 Case 23 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Case 23
 
 48 
 
 C82. 
 
 30 Edward I. Gift for ever by Matilda formerly the wife of William 
 de Naylistone of Coventre, in her widowhood and full power, to 
 Robert de Stokes and his wife Joan, of all the messuage land and 
 rent, which the grantor recovered against them in the Court of 
 the Lord the King " per breve de ingressu." 
 
 CSS. 
 
 C84. 
 
 C85. 
 
 C86. 
 
 C 87. 
 
 C8B. 
 
 31 Edward I. Gift for ever of a third part of a messuage in Earl's 
 Street in Coventre, by John Pat and his wife Alice to William de 
 Schepeye of Coventre merchant. 
 
 31 Edward I. Gift for ever of a curtilage in Cheylesmor Lane in 
 
 Coventre, by John the son of William the Painter of Coventre to 
 William de Metingham of Coventre merchant and his wife Matilda. 
 
 32 Edward I. Gift for ever of certain lands in the fields called Pody- 
 
 croft and Schocherefeld in Coventre, and three yearly rents issuing 
 from as many tenements in Coventre, by Alice formerly the wife 
 of Henry de Alscote, in her pure widowhood, to John de Langbene 
 and Henry de Raynyre of Coventre merchants. 
 
 1306. Quitclaim by Alice, the widow of John de Chylton of Coventre, 
 to Henry the Prior and the Convent of Coventre, in respect to 
 any right or claim she may have by way of dower in a tenement 
 called " Benfirlond." 
 
 35 Edward I. Lease for life by Felicia Cause and her son Thomas de 
 Dufton to Thomas le Wardur (?) of Coventre of a messuage in 
 Sponne Street, at a yearly rent of four pence for ten years and 
 afterwards at a yearly rent of six shillings. 
 
 35 Edward I. Gift in perpetual almoine of the donor's third part of 
 WodenmUnebeye, with his meadow in Wykene, and his twelve 
 denarates of yearly rent issuing from a virgate of land in the 
 territory of Coventre towards Cunduline, by Peter de Blockele 
 clerk to Henry the Prior and the Convent of the Church of St. 
 Mary of Coventre, and especially to the Sacristan of the said Church. 
 
 C89. 
 
 C 90. 
 
 — Release and quitclaim by Adam the son of Hugh Le Purser 
 
 to Robert de Kenneleye, in respect to a piece of land in Spone 
 Street in Coventre. 
 
 1307. Gift for ever of a yearly rent of ten shillings of silver issuing 
 from a cellar in Eai'l's Street in Coventre by John the son of 
 Adam Clerk to Henry the baker of Coventre. 
 
 Drawer 2
 
 49 
 
 C91. 
 
 92. 
 
 93. 
 
 C94. 
 
 C 95. 
 
 C 96. 
 
 C97 
 
 C 98. 
 
 C 99. 
 
 C 100. 
 
 2 Edward II. Quitclaim in respect to a yf^arly rent of twelve pence 
 issuing from a tenement in the Greater Park Street in Coventre, 
 by Alice the daughter of Benedict " le Cotiler" of Coventre, 
 formerly the wife of John de Todenham, to John de Ricon. 
 
 2 Edward II. Agreement between Robert de Stoke and Henry Bagot, 
 
 both of Coventre, for the conditional surrender by the said Robert 
 to the said Henry of a yearly rent of four shillings and tenpence, 
 part of a certain rent issuing from lands and tenements in the 
 town of Harenhale near Coventre. ... ' 
 
 3 Edward II. Quitclaim for ever, by John the son of John le Bolyngere 
 
 to Peter Barun of Coventre, in respect to a messuage in Coventre, 
 lying " in vico ubi pulteria venditur versus portam Prioratus." . . . 
 
 5 Edward II. Gift for ever of a messuage in Smytheford-street in 
 Coventre, by Alice the widow of Thomas Haldeyn of Coventre in 
 her pure widowhood to Richard the Spicer and his wife Agnes. ... 
 
 7 Edward II. Lease for lives in survi%'orship, by John de Wyteley of 
 Radeford to Richard le Couper of Coventre butcher and his wife 
 Alice, of a place of pasture called Enedmere in the territory of 
 Radeford, at a yearly rent of a rose for sixteen years, and after- 
 wards at a yearly rent of forty shillings of silver. 
 
 9 Edward II. Gift for ever of a messuage in the Greater Park Street 
 of Coventre, by Matilda formerly the wife of John Le Longe, of 
 Coventre, in her pure widowhood to Roger Sweyn merchant. 
 
 9 Edward IT. Gift for ever of a messuage in the Greater Park Sti'eet, 
 by William " Le Glasrugihe" of Coventre and Emma his wife to 
 Roger de Bray of Coventre and his wife Emma. 
 
 Edward II. Gift for ever of a tenement 
 William de Metyngham of Coventre 
 merchant. 
 
 in Cheilesmorlane, by 
 to Robert de Gartone 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 10 Edward 11. Quitclaim, by Felicia formerly the wife of Richard de 
 Cundona of Coventry in her pure widowhood, to Robert de Garton 
 merchant, of all her claim and title to a tenement in Cheilesmorlane 
 in Coven ti'e. 
 
 10 Edward II. Agreement between Robert de London of Coventre 
 chaplain, Roger Dayseye and his wife Matilda of the one 
 part, and Walter de Norton of Coventre cook and his wife Amice 
 and Richard the first-born son of the same Walter on the other 
 part, whereby the said Robert, Roger and Matilda granted and 
 
 Case 2 a 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 2-
 
 50 
 
 ClOl. 
 
 (;io2. 
 
 C103. 
 
 C104. 
 
 CIO 
 
 0. 
 
 C ] OG. 
 
 C107. 
 
 conveyed for life in survivorship to the said Walter, Amice and 
 Richard an annual rent of ten shillings and sixpence issuing from 
 a tenement in Cheilesmorlane in Coventre, and also granted and 
 conveyed to the same Walter, A mice and Richard the same tene- 
 ment for their lives in survivorship from and after the death of 
 Richard de Wygorn' chaplain, who holds the same tenement for 
 the term of his life. 
 
 10 Edward II. Lease for life of a croft in Bobynhul, lying between 
 the highway and the garden of the rector of the church of 
 Bobynhul, by Richard Quocus of Bobynhul to John de Lyndeseye 
 of Bobynhul, to have and hold the said croft iree of rent for eight 
 years, and on the expiration of the said term of eight years, at a 
 yearly rental of forty shillings. 
 
 10 Edward II. Lease for life and for ten years of a messuage in the 
 
 Greater Park Street of Coventre, by Henry de Meriton to Dionisia, 
 formerly the wife of Philip de Barsham ot L-oventre, with a con- 
 cession that, should the said Dionisia die within ten years, her 
 heirs and assigns may have and hold the said messuage till the 
 end of the said term of ten years. ... 
 
 11 Edward II. Lease for lives in survivorship of seven " seliones " of 
 
 land, at a yearly rent of a rose flower to be paid at the Feast of 
 the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, by Richard the cook of 
 Bobinhul to Matilda de Abinhale of Bobynhul and her three sons 
 Richard, Robert and Laurence. 
 
 11 Edward II. Gift for ever of a messuage in Bishop's Street in 
 Coventre by Warner de Hamslape and his wife Alice to Ralph de 
 Staunton chaplain. 
 
 14 Edward TI. Gift for ever of four •'seliones" of arable land with 
 one " forera " (" quatuor seliones terre cum una forera ") and a 
 meadow by Henry the son of the whilom Richard Aiuieys of 
 Coundelin to John de Edynghal of Coventry cook 
 
 17 Edward II 
 
 of Coventry by Roger 
 Coventry merchant. 
 
 Gift for ever of a messuage in the Greater 
 Le Bray to William de 
 
 Park Street 
 Leycestre of 
 
 17 Edward II. Quitclaim for ever, by William the son of William 
 Gnape (?) of Coventre to William de Leycestre of Coventre 
 merchant and his wife Matilda, in respect to two solidates of 
 yearly rent, issuing from a tenement in the Greater Park Street 
 of Coventre. 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Case 23 
 
 Drawer 2
 
 51 
 
 C 108. 17 Edward II. Gift for ever of lauds and tenements, rents and 
 reversions In " le Frerelone in Coventre," lying between the King's 
 way leading towards " Cheylesmor gi'ene " on the one part and 
 the land that foiinerly belonged to Master Richard of the TTall on 
 the other part, by liichard de St. James of Coventre to Adam Le 
 Sadelere of Coventre and his wife Alice. 
 
 C 109. 20 Edward II. Release and quitclaim, in resjiect to a tenement in 
 Cheilesmorlane in Coventre, by John the son of the whilom 
 William the Painter of Coventre to Walter Le Ken of Coventre 
 and his wife Amice. 
 
 Dici 
 
 awer 
 
 C 110. 20 Edward 11. Gift for ever of a tenement in Cheylesmorelane in 
 Coventre by Robert de Garton to Walter le Ken and his wife 
 Amice. 
 
 C 111. 
 
 C 112. 
 
 C113. 
 
 C 114. 
 
 C Hi 
 
 1 Edward III. Gift for ever of ten solidates of yearly rent, issuing 
 from the Mill which is called Erlesmilne in Coventre, by Henry 
 Bagot of Coventre and his wife Katherine to William de 
 Passingham clerk. 
 
 1 Edward III. Lease for lives in survivorship of an acre of waste land 
 in the fields of Sowe, at a yearly rent of twelve pence, by Henry 
 the Prior and the Convent of the Cathedral Church of Coventre 
 to Thomas Bagot of Coventre, his wife Petronille and their 
 daughters Katherine and Elizabet. ... 
 
 1329 A.D. Lease for twenty years ot lands and tenements in 
 Counduline, by John the son of John de Canleye of Styvechale 
 to Symon Reynold of Counduline. 
 
 3 Edward III. Gift for ever of three solidates of yearly rent issuing 
 from a tenement in Fountain Street opposite the Hill Cross (" in 
 vico fontis Coventre ex opposite Hulle Cros "), by Robert de 
 Chilton of Coventre to Roger Oky of Coventre clerk. 
 
 Edward III. Agreement made between Isolda formerly the wife of 
 William de Grantham in her widowhood of the one part and 
 Margery Tynal of Coventre in her vu-ginity of the other part, 
 they being occupants and owners of adjoining tenements in the 
 
 Lesser Pai'k Street in Coventre (" tenementa annexa et 
 
 edificata in Minori Vico jDarci (-oventre"): By which agreement 
 the said Margery undertook for herself and her heirs and assigns 
 that she and they would at their costs and charges sustam the 
 party-wall dividing the two tenements for ever, and the said Isolda 
 
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 C116. 
 
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 C119. 
 
 C120. 
 
 C121. 
 
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 C123. 
 
 vindertook for herself, her heirs and assigns, that she and they 
 should put a sufficient gutter above the same wall and should for 
 ever cleanse and repair the same gutter as occasion should require. 
 
 4 Edward III. Grant for ever of a piece of land in Sponne Street in 
 
 Coventre, at a yearly rent of two shillings of silver, by Henry de 
 licycestre Prior of the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Mary of 
 Coventre and of the Convent of the same place to Peter de Ruyton 
 and Rowland de Bredon chaplains, about to celebi'ate divine services 
 and rites in the Nave of the said Church. 
 
 5 Edward III. Gift and quitclaim for ever of certain lands and tene- 
 
 ments in Coundiline, by John the son of John of Styvychale to 
 Symond Reynald of Coundiline his heirs and assigns. ... 
 
 5 Edward III. Quitclaim for ever, in respect to a messuage in Gosford 
 Street in Coventre, by William Page the son of the late Hugh 
 Page of Coventre to Agnes formerly the wile of Simon Uttyng of 
 Coventre and to Richard the son of the same Symon and Agnes. 
 
 5 Edward III. Gift for ever of a tenement in the Greater Park Street 
 in Coventre, by Robert the son of Ralph de Trewe of Coventre 
 to Roger le Hunte of Coventre. 
 
 5 Edward III. Lease for sixteen years and for life, at a yearly rent of 
 forty shillings, of a tenement lying beyond the bridges of Gosford 
 in Coventre (" extra pontes de Gosford in Coventre ") by Alice the 
 daughter of the whilom Margaret, who was the wife of Richard Le 
 Northerne of Coventre, in her widowhood (" Alicia filia quondam 
 Margarete que fuit uxor Ricardi Le Northerne de Coventre in 
 viduitate mea"), to Ralph Byllyng of Coventre. 
 
 5 Edward III. Gift for ever of four solidates of yearly rent, issuing 
 
 from a tenement in Cheylesmorlane in Coventre, by Roger 
 Dayseye of Coventre and his wife Matilda to Walter the Cook of 
 Coventre and Amice his wife. 
 
 1332 A.D. Gift for ever of four cottages in Spannestrete in C'oventre, 
 and six solidates of yearly rent issuing from a tenement in Spanne- 
 strete aforesaid in the holding of Roger Bromcote, by Richard de 
 Buyton of Boventre and his wife Alice and Thomas the son of the 
 said Alice, to John Warde of Coventre merchant. 
 
 6 Edward III. Agreement, whereby Henry Le Spicer of Coventre 
 
 and his wife Mary granted to Richard Le Spicer, father of the said 
 Henry, a yearly rent of fifty shillings issuing from a tenement in 
 Smytheford Street, and further gi-anted to the same ]lichai'd for 
 
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 C124. 
 
 C125. 
 
 his life a sufticiency of meat and drink at his own table like that 
 provided for the grantors, and a fit place for his bed in the same 
 grantors' own tenement and fit clothes for the same bed, and a 
 robe of fit cloth to be received by him yearly at St. Andrew's 
 Feast of each year with fur fit for an over-tunic, and on evei-y 
 second year a winter-coat with a cap and suitable fur at the Fe;ust 
 of 8t. Michael, and a summer over-tunic at the Feast of the 
 Discovery of the Holy Cross, and also granted to him for life a 
 yearly livery of two pairs of linen clothes and four pairs of list 
 shoes and six pairs of shoes to be received every year. 
 
 1334 A.D. Gift for ever, by Roger de Walburleye of Allesleye to 
 Richard de Cumba of Coventre butcher, of all the lands and 
 tenements, rents and services, which the said Roger had in 
 Walburleye and Coundulin of the gift and feoffament of Robeit 
 Le Blake of Walburleye chaplain. 
 
 7 Edward III. Deed of Confirmation, dated by Agnes the daughter 
 and heir of the whilom Roger Dayseye and his wife Matilda, after 
 due inspection of the writings of Walter Norton of Coventre cook 
 and his wife Amice and his son Richard, touching a messuage in 
 Cheylesmorelane and a rent issuing therefrom : For the ratification 
 of the concessions made by the same writings to the same Walter, 
 Amice and Richard. 
 
 C126. 
 
 1335 A.D. Agreement made between Henry the Prior 
 Convent of the Cathedral Church of Coventre of the one 
 Thomas de Radewey of Keresleye and his wife Alice, 
 formerly the wile of Rogei' Locard, of the other part ; 
 the said Thomas and Alice gave to the said Prior and 
 
 and 
 part 
 
 the 
 and 
 who was 
 Whereby 
 Convent 
 
 C127. 
 
 and their successors, certain lands &c. in the towns and territories 
 of Coventre, Coundeline and Radeford, and the said Prior and 
 Convent granted to the said Alice for her life a corody in their 
 said priory, therefrom to receive daily " unum panem album qui 
 vocatur Michs et unam lagenam cerevisie conventualis " &c. and 
 also granted to her a place of abode in a cottage with a curtilage 
 in St. Nicholas Street. 
 
 10 Edward III. Final Concord, made in the King's Court at York in 
 the Octave of St. Michael in 10 Edward III., in the presence of 
 William de ShareshuU, John Inge, John de Shardelowe and 
 Richard de Aldeburgh, Justices of the Lord King, between Henry 
 de Geddyrig and Alice his wife plaintiffs and Henry son of John 
 de L'Angele of Coventre deforciant, in respect to nine messuages, 
 one mill, seventy-five acres of arable land, twenty-five acres of 
 
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 meadow, one acre and half-an-acre of wood, forty solidates and 
 two denarates of rent, and a rent of one pound of pepper, with 
 appurtenances in Coventre, Eton and Attelbergh co. Warwick, 
 and a messuage with appurtenances in Hinklaye co. Leicester. 
 
 C 128. 9 Edward III. Lease for hfe of the grantor's manor of Stoke, and of 
 his meadows, pastures, rents &c. in Stoke, Coventre, Sowe, 
 Harenhal, Styvechal, Pinnele and Radefoixl, by Robert de Stoke 
 to his motlier. 
 
 Cl29. 13 Edward IIL Gift for ever of a messuage in Cheylesmorlane in 
 Coventre, by Thomas E to Hugh de Lemyngton. 
 
 C 130. 14 Edward III. Gift for ever of a messuage in Spannestrete in 
 Coventre, by WiUiam de Kendale of Coventre sadelere to 
 Dominus Richard de Somerby, rector of the church of Derkeswell. 
 
 C 131. 14 Edward III. Lease for Hfe, at the yearly rent of a rose-flower, of a 
 tenement near Lodeloweslane in Coventre, by Jordan de Shepei 
 and Henry de Dodenliale to Tliomas de Merston the baker. 
 
 C 132. 15 Edward III. Gift for ever of a piece of land lying in the Street of 
 Peter the Less, by John Cox of Coventre to John Le Warde. 
 
 Cl33. 17 Edward III. Lease for life of a piece of arable land lying in 
 Redeford, by Richard Facham of Coventre to Roger Oky of 
 Coventre clerk. 
 
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 C134. 
 
 C135. 
 
 17 Edward III. Gift for ever of a messuage in Cheillesmorlane in 
 Coventre, by William de Happesford of Coventre merchant to 
 Henry Le Clerk of Coventre merchant. 
 
 17 Edward HI. Quitclaim for ever, by Jordan de Shepye and Henry 
 de Bodenhale of Coventre to Hugh the son of Nicholas le Masoun 
 of Lemynton, in respect to twenty solidates of rent, issuing from a 
 messuage in the Frerelane in Coventre. 
 
 C 136. 17 Edward III. Gift for ever, by Alice formerly the wife of Thomas 
 in le Hurne of ( 'oventre and by Thomas the son of the same Alice 
 and by Emma the wife of the last mentioned Thomas to Thomas 
 de Appach and William de Lalleford cha})lains and Philip del 
 Pakes of Coventre, of a messuage with and adjacemt bakehouse in 
 Spannestret in Coventre, and of a wood in Whalliurley near 
 Coventre with eight acres of arable land, and a place called 
 Folewell in the territory of the same town, and a separate croft 
 lying near the highway which leads from Coventre towards
 
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 Alleysleye, and three selions of arable land lying in the territoiy 
 of Condulin and an acre of meadow one half of which lies at 
 Dodemanswell. 
 
 C 137. 19 Edward III. Agreement made between William Galeys of the one 
 pa;t and Robert de Bores s\-orth of Coventry merchant of the other 
 part ; Whereby, upon consideration of the said WilHam's intention 
 to build a-new his tenement and extend the same up to the tene- 
 ment of the aforesaid Robert, it is agreed by the same Robert that 
 the same William may construct sufficient gutters for carrying off 
 the water from the roofs of the adjoinmg tenements, and the 
 aforesaid William agrees that, so often as the walls and gutters 
 between the same tenements shall be broken or out of repair to 
 the injury of the said Robert's tenement, it shall be lawful for him 
 the said Robert and his heirs and assigns to enter the said tene- 
 ment of the said William Galeys, into whosever hands it may 
 have come, and to distrain thereupon for the repair of the said 
 walls and gutters between the two aforesaid tenements. 
 
 Cl38. 19 Edward III. Gift for ever in fee-farm, at a yearly rent of ten 
 shillings to the grantor and his heirs and assigns, of a messuage 
 m the Greater Park Street of Coventre, by Roger Le Hunt to 
 William Nokes of Coventry mercer. 
 
 C 139. 20 Edward III. Gift for ever of a tenement in the Lesser Park Street 
 of Coventre, by ... de Shejoeie to Jordan de Shepeie. ... 
 
 Cl40. 21 Edward III. Gift for ever of a burgage with its appurtenances 
 lying in Westorchard Street in Coventry, by Robert Fraunceys 
 chaplain, Thomas de Burmyncham chaplain, Peter Percy and John 
 de Pakynton, to Richard le Darkere, Henry de Clifton deyster, 
 and Christina Austyn, 
 
 Cl4l. 22 Edward III. Lease for three years, at a yearly rent of twenty 
 pounds of silver, of two messuages in Earl's Street in Coventre, 
 with Grant of the reversion of four shops and a cellar for a tavern, 
 and further Grant of a bakehouse and two cottages in the Lesser 
 Park Street of Coventre, and two solidates of yeai'ly rent issuing 
 from shops in Earl's Street, and twelve denarates of yearly rent 
 issuing from a tenement near the Broad Gate, and twelve 
 denarates of yearly rent issuing from tenements in Harnhall, by 
 William de Burbache chaplain and to Richard atte Grene of 
 Coventre and his wife Margery. 
 
 C 142. 22 Edward III. Gift for ever of a place of curtilage in the street of 
 the Lesser Park (" in vico parcl miaoris "), by Isabella Forthwyne. 
 
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 daughter ot Alice Forth wyne of Coventre, to Jolin Le Warde of 
 Coventre merchant. 
 
 C 143. 23 Edward III. Gift for ever of a messuage in Cheillesniore lane in 
 Coventre, by Henry Le Clerk of Coventre merchant to Robert Le 
 Cok of Coventre mercer. ... 
 
 C 144. 23 Edward III. Lease for life, at a yearly rent of eight marks, of a 
 messuage with cellars and a shop and other buildings with their 
 curtilages and appurtenances in Earl's Street in Coventre, by 
 John de Langeleye and Alice, formerly the wife of Thomas de 
 Colleshull, to John de Deneforde. ... 
 
 C145. 23 Edward III. Power of Attorney, dated at Coventry by Mabil 
 Maunsel, formerly the wife of Robert Hegecote of Northampton, 
 in her pure widowhood, appointing Robert Wushton chaplain her 
 attorney to give and deliver seisin of a messuage with appurten- 
 ances, lying in Earl's Street in Coventre, to Sewall de Bulkynton 
 of Coventre, Nicholas de Baddesley chaplain, William Luffe and 
 John de Taunton ot Coventre. 
 
 C 146. 23 Edward III. Gift for ever of a tenement in the Lesser Park Street 
 of Coventre, by Thomas de Shepeye of Coventre to Robert de 
 Whushton chaplain and John de Taunton. 
 
 C 147. 25 Edward III. Gift in fee-farm for ever of a piece of land lying in 
 the lane ot the Friars Minors of Coventre, at a yearly rent of two 
 silver pence, by Nicholas Percy the Mayor and the bailiffs of 
 Coventre to Sewall de Bulkynton of Coventre, William Luffe 
 senior of Coventre and Nicholas de Baddesley chaplain, their heirs 
 and assigns. 
 
 (/148. 27 Edward III. Lease for lives in survivorship, at a yearly rent of 
 twenty-two shillings of silver, of a messuage in the Greater Pai-k 
 Street by Walter le Whitwebbe of Coventre, Master of the Guild 
 of the Blessed Mary of Coventre, with the assent of the said 
 Guild, to Thomas Russel of Gretford "packare" in Coventre and 
 his wife Matilda and their first-born son John. 
 
 C 149. 27 Edward III. Lease for lives in survivorship of a tenement with 
 shops in Coventre by Adam de Ichynton and William de Lawford 
 to Gilbert de Pultenaye of Coventre and his wife Elena. 
 
 (I ] 50. 27 Edward III. Gift for ever of a bridge with a course of water, 
 which Robert the Miller formerly held and a piece of land at " le 
 Boleford " and a curtilage at Woodende, by Sir John de Brocheford 
 knt., lord of Arleye, to Richard Sherewynd. 
 
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 C 151. 28 Edward in. Quitclaim for ever, by Ilichard Beby of Leyccstre to 
 Alice formerly the wife of John de Denford of Coveiitre and to the 
 heirs and assigns of the said John, in i-espect to a yearly rent of 
 six marks, issuing from a tenement in Earl's Street in Coventre, in 
 which tenement t lie said Alice dwells. 
 
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 C152. 
 
 C 153. 
 
 C154. 
 
 C155. 
 
 C156. 
 
 29 Edward III. Gift of two messuages in Coventre, by TlK)mas de 
 
 Hynton merchant to Robert le Cook mercer and his wife Joan. 
 
 30 Edward III. Lease for lives in survivorshij), at a yearly rent of 
 
 twenty -six shillings and eight pence, of a messuage in the Greater 
 Park Street of Coventre by William Holme, Master of the Guild 
 of the Blessed Mary of Coventre, with the consent of the said 
 Guild, to William AUeyleye and his wife Amice. 
 
 30 Edward III. Grant for life in survivorship of a 
 shillings and fonrpence, issuing from a messuage 
 John de Stoke to William de Langham and his wife Christian. 
 
 rent of thirteen 
 Coventre, by 
 
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 C157. 
 
 C158. 
 
 30 Edward III. Gift for ever of a messuage in Spon Street in 
 Coventre, by Richard de Horncastell of Coventre to Richard Le 
 Chapman of Sharneford. 
 
 30 Edward III. PoAver of Attorney, dated by John de Neuby clerk, 
 appointing his servant John de Palynton his attornov, to deliver 
 seisin of certain lands, tenements and meadows, &c. in Condeline, 
 Whaburleye and Sponn near Coventre to William Pasonhill and 
 John de Holdenby of Coventre clerks. ... ... ... Case 
 
 30 Edward III. Gift for ever of a grange in Gosford Street bevuiid 
 the bridge towards Gosford Asshe, and of the reversion (on the 
 death of Richard Belers of Coventre merchant) of a messuage mid 
 four fields in Coventre, by Nicholas be Baddesleye chaplain and 
 Ilichard de Shepye of Coventre hosier to Richard the son of Ealph 
 Billyng and his wife Alice. ... ... ... ... ,, 23 
 
 1360 A.D. Grant, made at the instance of John de Newby clerk, and 
 in consideration of his payment of thirty shillings, by the Prior 
 and Convent of the Cathedral Church of Coventre, of a yearly 
 rent of 8^d., issuing from eight seliones and four virgates of aivable 
 land, and of an adjoining meadow near the Frechbroke in the field 
 of Coventre, to the Altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the said 
 church, where a mass with a chant is celebrated dally to the laud 
 of the Virgin, for all the benefactors living and dead of the 
 grantors. ... ... ... ... ... ... Drawer
 
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 C 159. 1362 A.D. Lease to Geoffi-ey de Nortliefollke of Coventre mercer and 
 his wife Joan, for their Uves in survivorship, by Jlenry Dilcok, 
 Master of the Guild of the Blessed Mary and St. John the Baptist, 
 of a messuage in Coventre, at a yearly rent of four pounds of silver. 
 
 C 1 60. 37 Edward III. Gift for ever of a messuage in Bishop's Street in 
 Coventre, and of a granary with a curtilage lying in Doglane, by 
 Eichard de Filonghley of Coventre "flesshewer" and his wife 
 Agnes to William Wolfe, John Luyk, Eichard de Teyntou and 
 Adam de Keresley. 
 
 C 161. 39 Edward III. Gift for lives in survivorship of a messuage with 
 shops at the corner of the Lesser Park Street in Coventre, by 
 Nicholas Baddesley chaplain and John Damas chaplain to Nicholas 
 Michel of Coventre merchant and his wife Agnes. 
 
 C 162. 45 Edward III. Gift for ever of a rent of one hundred marks sterling, 
 to be had yearly out of all the lands and tenements in the town of 
 Coventi-e, which the grantor had of the gift and feoffment of John 
 de Thornton and Henry de Bisschopistone and William Walsshe- 
 man, by Hugh de Brendesleye to William Walssman and his wife 
 Beatrice. 
 
 Cl63. 45 Edward III. Lease for lives in survivorship, by John de Shepeye 
 clerk to Thomas Le Mareschall of Coventre smith and his wife 
 Joan, of a messuage in Earl's Street in Coventre, at a yearly rent 
 of twenty-six shillings and eight pence of silver. 
 
 C 164. 46 Edward III. Grant in fee-farm for ever, at a yearly rent of four 
 pounds in silver, of a messuage in Earl's Street in Coventre, by 
 John de Papenham, John de Toftes, Ealph Palivere, John de 
 Pounfret, Thomas de Bassyngton and William de Corby of 
 Coventre merchants to Eobert de Canleye of Coventre. 
 
 C 105. 46 Edward III. Lease for forty years, at a yearly rent of twenty 
 shillings of silver, of a messuage in the Croschepyng ofCovenlre, 
 by John de Toftes, Master of the Guild of the Blessed Mary, 
 St. John and St. Catherine of Coventre, with the assent of the 
 whole fraternity of the said Guild, to Edward Dedon of Coventre. 
 
 (J 166. 47 Edward III. Grant for ever of seven messuages and four curtilages 
 in Coventre by Henry-atte-Hay of Coventre girdler and William 
 Stickneye of the same town to Adam Doton of Coventry merchant 
 and his wife Margery, 
 
 C 167. 48 Edward III. Eepairing Lease for forty years of two granges with a 
 house and ten cottages and a curtilage in Coventry by John 
 
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 C 168. 
 
 C169. 
 
 Botener and three others, merchants, to Ilobert dt; Berkindale of 
 Coveiitre, wlio is lK)und by a separate obHgatory writing in the 
 sum of 20£ sterhng to execute from time to time all needful 
 repairs of the premises, williin twelve months of their bi^coming 
 needful. 
 
 49 Edward III. Gift for ever of all the grantor's estate in a messuage 
 lying beyond the bridge of Smythford, by John de Marton to John 
 de Belton, William de Belton, William Suet and Henry de 
 Bradley chaplains. 
 
 49 Edward III. Gift for ever of a messuage in the Greater Park 
 Street of Coventre by Hugh de Seydon, vicar of the church of 
 Merton, and William Suwet chaplain to John de Happesford of 
 Coventre draper and his wife Agnes. 
 
 C 170. 50 Edward III. Gift for ever of a messuage, with a house built upon 
 it and a broad gate, lying in Palmerslane in Coventre, by Richard 
 de Torke of Coventre clerk to John de Marton of Coventre dyer. 
 
 C 171. 1 Bichard II. Lease for forty yeai's and for life of a field in Coventre, 
 lying near the church of St. Nicholas of Coventre, at a yearly rent 
 for the said forty years of a rose-flower, and after the said forty 
 years, at a yearly rent to the grantor and his heirs of three 
 shillings and four pence of silver, by Thomas Sty ward of Coventre 
 to John Ingge of the same place. 
 
 C 172. 1 Bichard II. Obligatory Bond of Thomas Sty ward of Coventre to 
 Robert Ingge of Coventre in the sum of 10£, to be paid to the 
 said John his heirs and executors, by the said Thomas his heirs or 
 executors at the next Feast of the Nativity of our Lord. 
 
 C 173. 1 Richard II. Lease for forty years of a field in Coventre, by Thomas 
 Sty ward of Coventre to John Ingge of the same place. 
 
 C 174. 1 Richard II. Gift for ever by Nicholas Michel of Coventre and 
 Walter Whytewebbe of Coventre, merchants, to Adam Botener 
 and John Percy and eleven others, of all the lauds and tenements, 
 rents and reversions, meadows and pastures, &c., which the present 
 grantors, in conjunction with Henry Clerk, Richard de Stoke and 
 William de Bocheford had of the gift and feoffment of Henry 
 Dodenhale. 
 
 C 175, 2 Richard 11. Gift in fee-farm for ever, at a yearly rent of four silver 
 shillings, of a piece of land in Coventre, by Adam Botener the 
 Mayor and the bailiffs and chamberlains of Coventre to Geoftrey 
 de Skardeburgh and his wife Agnes. 
 
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 C 176. 7 Richard II. Gift for ever of a messuage in Gosford Street in 
 Coventre, by Robert de Canleye and Adam Walseman to Richard 
 Dodenhale of Coventre merchant and his wife Beatrice. 
 
 C 177. 16 Richard II. Licence to John Skardebiirgh, John Wedon, Richard 
 Marchall, Adam Deyster and Nicholas Dudley, to give and assign i 
 nine messuages and six acres of land to the Master brethren and j 
 sisters of the Guild of the Precious Body and Blood of the Lord j 
 Jesus Christ for pious uses, the Statute of Mortmain notwithstand- 
 ing ; the said Licence being granted by the Prior and Convent of 
 the Cathech-al Church of St. Mary of Coventre, of whom the said I 
 nine messuages and six acres of land are immediately held. 
 
 C 178. 16 Richard II. Gift and conveyance (made by authority of Letters 
 Patent dated by the King on 28th June of the said year) [B. 27] of 
 twenty-nine messuages, eight acres of arable land, eighteen 
 denarates of rent and one half of a messuage, in Coventre, by 
 John Scardeburgh and four others, to the Master, brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of the precious Body and Blood of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ of Coventre, to have and hold for ever, for finding a 
 chaplain to celebrate divine services daily for the benefit of the 
 said Master brethren and sisters and ior other works of piety. 
 
 Cl79. 16 Richai'd II. Grant for ever by Master John de Shepeye, the Dean 
 of Lincoln Cathedral, of Licence to John de Skardburgh, John de 
 Wedon, Richard Marchall, Adam Deyster and Nicholas Dudley of 
 Coventre, to give and assign for ever to the Master, brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of Corpus Christi of Coventre, a certain 
 messuage of Coventre, Avhich is held immediately of the same 
 Dean, to aid the said Guild in finding a chaplain to celebrate 
 divine services : With Licence to the Master, brethren and 
 sisters of the same Guild to receive and hold the same messuage. 
 
 C180. 17 Richard II. Deed of Enfeoffinent of the lands, tenements, I'ents, 
 services and reversions pertaining to the Master, brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, 
 and St. John the Baptist. 
 
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 ClBl. 
 
 C182. 
 
 6 Henry IV. Certified Co-pj of the Record of certain ii>\eiis, touching 
 the Liberties &c. of Coventre and tlie Manor of (Jheilesmore, held 
 in the said year in the Hall of the King's Houseliold at Warrewyk 
 before the Steward and Marshal of the said Household. 
 
 6 Henry IV. Award (French) of Arbitrators — to wit, William 
 Keresley of Coventre on behalf of Monsieur La Zouche, and
 
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 Thonias-atte-Cliirclie of Stoke on behalf of Thomas de Stoke — for I 
 the determination of the discord and controversy between Sir 
 William la Zouche Lord of Haryngwoith and John Stones of Eton 
 of the one i^art and Rouland Damet of Coventre of the other part, 
 respecting right and title in certain lands and tenements in 
 FolkeshuU, to wit, three enclosed fields called Grendonfeld, 
 Goldyfeld and Walkferlong, which the said John de Stones claims , 
 to have for life, the reversion being to the said Sir William and his j 
 heirs for ever, and of which the said llouland and Margaret claim 
 one half ; It being directed by the said arbitrators that one part 
 of the said tripartite indenture shall remain in the Treasury of the i 
 Guild of the Trinity in Coventry for ever. ... ... ... ' 
 
 C183, 8 Henry IV. Lease for a hundred years, at a yearly rent of twenty 
 shillings of silver, of a shop with a chamber above it and with 
 adjoining curtilages and garden, in the street of the Cross in 
 Coventre, by the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin 
 Mary and St. John the Baptist to Robert Shepley of Coventre 
 merchant. 
 
 O 184. ^ Henry IV. Quitclaim for ever by John, the son and heir ot Richard 
 Clerk of Coventre merchant, to William Attilburgh, Richard 
 Southam the elder, John Wymondeswold, John Unley, John 
 Preston and John Happesford, of all the right which he, the said 
 John Clerk, has or after his fathei''s death may have in all the 
 messuages, tenements, rents, reversions &c., which formei-ly 
 pertaining to John Grannie in the Greater Park Street of Coventre, 
 and in a gi-ange with an adjoining garden, a cottage, two other 
 cottages, one pageant-house (" uno Pagenthous ") in Hull Street 
 occupied by the Masters of the " Whittawerescraft," two other 
 cottages in the same street, a curtilage in the same street adjoining 
 the land of Richard Bykenhull, a great field called Muryholt, 
 another field called ('hiltenfeld, and another field called Wynde- 
 railnfeld in Coventre. 
 
 C 185. 10 Henry IV. Grant and Livery of a messuage called Byttereslane, 
 lying in Smythforde Street in Coventre, by William Broke parson 
 of the church of Lodbrok, his brother John Broke and John 
 Barbour of Bysshoppesychynton to John Scardeburgh, Master of 
 the Guild of the Holy Trinity of Coventre, and John de Preston 
 and Robert Shippeley Ijrothers of the same (xuild and Margery 
 Cookseye and Agnes the widow of Richard Clerk sisters of the 
 same Guild, for the aid and sustentation of the same Guild ; the 
 aforesaid grant and livery being made in accordance with the 
 aforesaid King's grant of Licence to the aforesaid William Broke, 
 John Broke and John Barbour for that purpose. 
 
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 C186. 
 
 C187. 
 
 C188. 
 
 C189. 
 
 0190. 
 
 C191. 
 
 1 Henry V. Lease for life, at a yearly rent ot ten pence, of a field 
 called Bannepece, lying near the church of St. Nicholas of 
 Coventre, by Richard Crossehy, Prior of the cathedral church of 
 the Blessed Mary of Coventre, and the Cou^■ent of the same Place 
 to John Whiteley chaplain of Coventre. 
 
 1417 A.D. Lease for twenty years, at a yearly rent of thirty-six 
 shillings, of two shops in Bailey Lane with chambers over them 
 and two chambers under them, by the Guild of the Holy Trinity, 
 the Blessed Mary and St John the Baptist of Coventre to John 
 Hornby of Coventre girdler. 
 
 4 Henry V. Lease for 24 years of the cottages in Bishop's Street in 
 Coventre at a yearly rent of six shillings, by John Gotle the 
 Master and the brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy 
 Trinity and the Blessed Mary and St. John the Baptist to David 
 Oswestre of Coventre carpenter, on condition that within two 
 years the said David will rebuild the said cottages with fit timber 
 and tiles. 
 
 8 Henry V. Lease for ten years, at a yearly rent of forty-six shillings 
 and eight pence, of a croft and all the " tentoria " placed therein 
 and three small houses in Hulle Street in Coventre by John 
 Prentys chaplain to William and John Owtred and their assigns ; 
 A condition of the lease being that the tenants " sustentabunt 
 omnia dicta tentoria videliest in peciis meremii vocatis lates et 
 clavis ferreis " and " omnia meremia dictis tentoiils incumbeucia 
 exhibebunt et invenient." 
 
 1 Henry VI. Lease for lives in survivorship, at a yearly rent of fifty- 
 
 three shillings and four pence, of a tenement in Attoxhale in Sowe 
 with meadows and pastures in Buydynge Haylyll and other 
 appurtenances in Sowe and Wykyn &c., by the Prior of the church 
 of the Blessed Mary of Coventre and the Convent of the same place 
 to Thomas Colyns and his wife. 
 
 2 Henry VL Deed of enfeoffment and lease for ever to the Mayor 
 
 and Connnunity of the City of Coventre of a messuage in Erlstrete 
 in Coventre, by William Babyngton, Chief Justice of the King's 
 Common Bench and William Botener of Withibroke, feoffee of 
 Agnes Whittecliirche widow of William Whittechirche late a 
 citizen of Coventre, on condition that the said Mayor and CJom- 
 munity celebrate yearly at a cost and In a maimer set forth in 
 the deed the anniversary of the said William Whittechirche and 
 William Palmer and the aforesaid Agnes Whittechirche in the 
 church of St. Michael in the city of Coventre. 
 
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 C193. 
 
 €194. 
 
 C195. 
 
 C19G. 
 
 C197. 
 
 C198. 
 
 C199. 
 
 3 Henry VT. Gift ibr ever of lands aiRl tenements, rents and services, 
 
 meadows and ]);;stures See. in tlie town and fields of Keresley, by 
 William Bynley of Coventry " passongei- " and his wife Alice. 
 
 4 Henry VI. Quitclaim for ever, in res])ect to a messuage with a 
 
 tenement in Park Street in Coventre, hy John Clyfton of Coventre 
 mercer to Thomas Swetlenham of Coventre draper. 
 
 4 Henry VI. Lease for thirty years of one half-bay in the Great 
 Drapery of Coventre; (unam dimidiam haj^am in Magna Draperia 
 Coventre), at a yearly rental of six shillings and eightpence, by 
 John Leder the master and the brethren and sisters of the Guild 
 of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Mary and St. John the Baptist 
 of Coventre to John Willughby draper of Coventre. 
 
 1425 A.D. Lease to farm for thirty years of the one halt of a certain 
 house In Coventre called the Drapery at a yearly rent of eight 
 shillings, by the Master the brethren and the sisters of the Guild 
 of the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, to 
 William Cortenale of Coventre draper. 
 
 10 Henry VI. Lease for twenty years, at a yearly rent of five marks, 
 of a messuage in Bayllylane in Coventre, by Laurence Cook the 
 Master and the Ijrethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy 
 Trinity, the Blessed Mary Virgin and St. John the Baptist of 
 Coventre to " John Alen of Coventre passenger." 
 
 1437 A.D. Lease for ninety-nine years, at a yearly rent of six pence, 
 ot four " seliones" of land lying together in the field near Coventre 
 called " le hylmylfeld " by Robert Schypeley, Bichard Beton and 
 William lladeclyfi", feoffees of the lands and tenements of John 
 Schypeley son of the aforesaid Robert Schypeley, to the Prior and 
 Coirvent of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary of Coventre. 
 
 32 Henry VI. Lease for twelve years, at a yearly i-ent of fifty-three 
 
 shillings and fourpence, of a messuage situated "in quodam vico 
 vocato Mustheparkstrete inter tenementum Abbatis et Conventus 
 ecclesie beate Marie de comba ex paiie una et terram WlUelml 
 Betley ex alia parte," by Richard Boys the Master and the 
 brethren and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity of Coventre 
 to Richard Nores of Coventre hosier. 
 
 33 Henry VI. Gift for ev^er of a messuage In Smythfoi-de Street in 
 
 Coventre, lying between a tenement pertaining to the chantry 
 called Seloteschauntery on the one part and the tenement of 
 William Melody on the other part, by William Saundere of 
 
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 C200. 
 
 C201. 
 
 C202. 
 
 Coventry deyster and his wife Agnes to Jolni Colchester, Robert 
 Lawe clerk, Simon Byrches and John Broun lynendraper, their 
 heirs and assigns. 
 
 9 Edwai'd IV. Certificate that Thomas Stokys holds the maiior of 
 Stoke of the manor of Cheylesmore in socage and not by military 
 service. 
 
 1471, January 2nd. Indenture of an Agreement between Richard 
 Woode the Master of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed 
 Mary the Virgin, St. John the Baptist and St. Katherine of 
 Coventry, and Richard Braytoft uuvl Jolni Pyncliebek brethren 
 and Agnes Boys and Agneys Fyssher sistei's of the same Guild of 
 the one part, and Rafe Calcrofte master John Thomson and John 
 Swerde brethren and Alice Coke and Margery Carr sisters of the 
 Guild of St. Mary of Chesterfelde of the other part ; For the 
 yearly celebration of an obite in the church of Chesterfeld " for the 
 soules of Master Thomas Chesterfeld, his fadir, hir modyr and 
 John Braunston " and other deceased j^ersous. 
 
 11 Edward IV. Gift for ever, by Dame Isabella late the wife of 
 Walter Langley esq. (" domina Isabella imper uxor Walteri 
 Langley armigeri ") of her inn in Coventre called " Cardinalis 
 Hat^," near the inn called " le Crown in platea vocata Brodeyatys" 
 to her son John Langley. 
 
 C-2un. ! 12 Edward IV., May 21st. Indenture, sealed with the seal of the 
 Mayor and community of the City of Coventre, of the agreement 
 whereby William Bristowe alias Briscowe of the one part and the 
 said Mayor and community of the other part agreed " to abyde the 
 rule ordinannce and jugement of John Cateby sei'geaunt of tlie 
 lawe and William Cumberford arbitratours indiflerently chosen 
 betwixt the said parties of and upon the title and possession of 
 alle maner landes and comyn of pasture beyng in variaunce 
 betwixt them," and also agreed " that the seid William Bristowe 
 and one assigned for the seid Meir and cominalte shall ride to 
 London at the VIIL'*"- of Trinlte next comyng to labur and desire 
 the seid John Cateby and William Cumberford to take the labur 
 of the premises upon them," &c. — N.B. It is worthy of remark 
 that the official clerks who copied records and documents touching 
 the owner of Wliltley Manor in the 15th century, spelt his sur- 
 name in four different ways, to wit, Briscoe, Bripcowe, Bristue 
 and Bristowe. The maker of this catalogue has adopted and 
 adhered to the last spelling, alike on the labels affixed to docu- 
 ments and in the entries of the catalogue. 
 
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 C204. 13 Edward IV., July 3rd. Award of Arbitrators for determining the 
 variance and controversy between the Mayor and community of 
 Coventre on the one part and William Bristowe of Whitley of the 
 other part, respecting right and title in certain lands in Whitley, 
 running in these words, to wit, — " This indenture made the 
 thridde day of July the xiiith yer of King Edward the Fourth 
 witnesseth that wher variaunce contravercie and debate was had 
 moved and steryd betwene the Meir and cominalte of the Citee of 
 Coventre on that on partie and William Bristowe on that othir 
 partie for the right title and possession of certen lond lyeng in 
 Whittley bitwene the water of Shirborne and the Skynners buttes 
 in lenght on that on partie and on the othir partie from the same 
 Skynners buttes unto a meadowe callid Medowmore on the othir 
 partie and in brede bitwene the Kyngis park on the on partie and 
 the highwey leying from Coventre toward London on that othir 
 partie and Also for a parcelle of lond bitwene Alderfordpece and 
 Whittleycros parcelle of the same lond, and also for comyn of 
 pasture which the said William Bristowe claymeth to have with 
 his bestis in alle the feldis on both sides of the seid wey from the 
 said lond called Buggyngfeld upon Wridesden or Stokefeld upon 
 Wridesden and Skynners buttes unto the towne of Coventre 
 wherein the seid Meir and cominalte have used to have their 
 comyn of pasture from the fest of Seynt Peter the Advincle (sic) 
 called Lammas unto the fest of the Purificaclon of our Lady. 
 Wherupon John Fissher of Coventre sherman and John Emmottes 
 of the same capper be bounden in an obligacion of an huncketh 
 mark to the said William Bristowe for the said Meir and cominalte 
 upon condicion that the said Meir and cominalte shuld abide the 
 arbitrement ordinaunce and dome of George Burneby esquier, 
 John Hathewike, Thomas Cotes and Robert Otter arbitrours 
 chosen indifferently bitwene the said parties, and the said William 
 Bristowe was bounden in an nothir obligacion of an hundreth mark 
 to the seid John Fissher and John Emmottis upon the same 
 condicion, Wherupon the said arbitrours the dey and yer above- 
 seid awarded ordeigned and demyd that aswell the seid William 
 Bristowe as the seid Meir and cominalte shalbe nounsued in all 
 suche accions as either partie have ayenst othir in eny of the 
 Kyngis Courtis, and also the seid William Bristowe shalle relees an 
 suertie of the peas ayed (?) ayenst John Wildenrise of Coventre, 
 And also the seid arbitrours awarded ordeigned and demyd that 
 the seid William Bristowe shall have and enjoye to hym his heirez 
 and his assignez for evermore without eny interupcion of the seid 
 Meir and cominalte ami their successours alle such lond lieing in 
 Whittley from the water of Shii'borne unto Buggyngfeld upon 
 Wridesden in Whittley aboveseid, which hath byn enclosed bifor
 
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 this tyme, And also the seid WilUam shalle have to hym his 
 heirez and assignez for evermore withoute eny interupcion of the 
 seid Meir and cominalte and their successours al!e such lond in 
 Whittley caUid Buggyngfeld or Stokefeld upon Wrisdeden as is 
 aboveseid lieng bitwene the seid lond enclosed and the seid 
 Skynners buttes in lenght and in brede bitwene the said Kyngis 
 park and the said highwey ledyng from Coventre toward London, 
 with the forseid parcell of the same Buggyngfeld lyeng from Whittle- 
 cros to Alderfordpece, savyng the right of alle olhir parsones 
 pi'etendyng eny title in eny parcelle of the same lond if eny right 
 they have, And farthermore the seid arbitrours awarded ordeigaed 
 and demyd that the seid Meir and cominalte shall have only every 
 yer comyn of pasture with their bestis from Lammas unto Caudel- 
 mas in all the said lond if it be falowe or elhs unsowen and if 
 it be sowen as sone as the corne is caried away. And also the said 
 arbitrours awarded ordeyned and demyd that the said William 
 Bristowe his heirs and his assignez shalle comyn and enti-e comyn 
 with the said Meir and cominalte and their successours for evir- 
 more withoute eny interuption of the same Meir and cominalte 
 and their successours as is aforeseid in like wise and fourme in alle 
 such lond and feldis as the said Meir and cominaltie have comyn 
 in bitwene the said Skynners buttes and Buggungfeld upon 
 Wridesden aforeseid and the towne of Coventre on both sydes 
 the seid high wey aftir the rate of the seid lond lyeng bitwene the 
 water of Shirborne aboveseid and the said Skynners buttes and 
 feld aforseid And also aftir the rate of a feld callid Alderfordpece 
 and after the rate of a parcel of lond lyeng from Alderfordpece to 
 Whittleycros aboveseid, Also the said arbitrours awarded ordeigned 
 and demyd that the said Meir and cominalte and everych of them 
 shalbe quyte and discharged ayenst the said William Bristowe his 
 heirez and his executours for alle maner of trespacez and offences 
 doon hi theym or eny of theym to the said William Bristowe for 
 eny interesse or occupacion of eny of the said lond afor the date of 
 this present writyng. In wittnes wherof to this par tie of this 
 Indenture remaynyng with the said William Bristowe the seid 
 arbitrours have sette their sealis the day and yer aboveseid. — 
 Attached to this writing on vellum is the Recognizance of John 
 Fyssher and John Emottes, dated on 27th June, 13 Edward IV., 
 whereby the same John and John acknowledge themselves to be 
 bound to the said William Bristowe of Coventre in the sum of one 
 hundred marks sterling to be paid to him or his attorney in the 
 quindene of St. John the Baptist next to come. — Also the 
 coimterpart of the same Indenture " remaynyng with the seid 
 Meir " 
 
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 €205. 
 
 €206. 
 
 C207. 
 
 €208., 
 
 C209. 
 
 16 Edward IV. Lease for twelve years, at a yearly rent of forty-six 
 shillings and eight pence, of a messuage with a garden in Sponne 
 Street in Coventre, by Richard Braytoft and the brethren and 
 sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Mary, St. 
 John the Baptist and St. Katherine of Coventre, to William 
 Paynell of Coventre " whittewer." 
 
 20 Edward IV. Quitclaim and confirmation, by Henry Grey esquire, 
 SOD of Edward Grey late Lord de Ferrars de Groby, and Hemy 
 Boteler, feoffee of William Burgeys cousin and heir of Ralph Hunt, 
 to Richard Colyns, in respect to a toft or piece of Land in 
 Coventre, lying as to length in Smythfordstreete, and as to its 
 breadth between the tenement of the Guild of Corpus Christi and 
 St. Nicholas and the tenement of the Hospital of St. John the 
 Baptist, and extending from the same street even to the Hall of 
 the aforesaid Guild called St. Nicholas's Hall (" a vico predicto 
 usque ad Aulam predicte Glide vocatam Seynt Nicholas Hall." 
 
 5 Henry VIL, June 20th. Lease for twenty years, at a yearly rent 
 of fifty-five shillings, of two tenements in Coventre, the one being 
 in Baylylane, and the other in the "Gylyard" within Baylylane, by 
 Henry Kebull the Master of the Guild of the Holy Trinity and the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Babtist of Coventre, with 
 the assent of the brethren and sisters of the said Guild, to William 
 Haddon of Coventre mercer. 
 
 11 Henry VIL Lease for twenty-one years, at a yearly rent of 
 thirteen shillings and fourpence, of a tenement with appurtenances 
 in Erlesmyll lane in Coventre, by Richard Colman the Master of 
 the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Mary the Virgin, St. 
 John the Baptist and St. Katherine of Coventre, with the assent 
 of the brethren and sisters of the said Guild, to Thomas Mooselle 
 and Richard Booth " sherman." 
 
 14 Henry VII. Award of Arbitrators — to wit, of William by the 
 grace of God Bishop of Lincolne and John by the same grace 
 Bishop of Coventre and Lichfeld "and other of the Counsell 
 lerned of Arthur the first begoten sonne of King Henry Vlltfi' 
 
 Prince of Wales indifferently chosen and named betwen 
 
 Richard Priour of the Monastery of Saint Mary in the Citie of 
 Coventre and the Convent of the same place on the one partie 
 and Thomas Bonde j\raire and Commoinaltie of the same Citie on 
 the other partie " — for determining the discord and variance of the 
 said parties respecting a yearly sum of 10£, which the said Mayor 
 and community claimed of the said Prior and Convent for the 
 
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 murage of the said city : It being ordained by the same Arbitrators 
 that, from the date of the award " the said Priour and Convent 
 and their successors shall here and pay ratably with the citesyns 
 of the said Citie to the forseid murage and making of the saide 
 walles about the said citie unto such tyme as the same walles be 
 fully made up and accomplished, that is to say yearly xli. at the 
 ffcst of all Sayntes, when the said citesens and all other having 
 londes and tenementes within the same citie shall be proportionably 
 charged after the rate of the quantite of their said londes and 
 tenements to the same murage, provided alweys that, if any of the 
 citisens or other persounes that have londes and tenementes within 
 the same be hereafter rated and assessed to a lesse somme of 
 money, than the said Priour and Convent and their successours 
 shalbe in like forme lesse rated." 
 
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 C2i0. 12 Henry VIII., October 6th. Indenture of an Agreement, made on 
 the said day between Thomas White, Master of the Guild of 
 Corpus C'hristi and St. Nicholas and the brethren and sisters of 
 the same Guild of the first part, and Letyse the widow and 
 executrix of the testament of John Saunders late of Coventre 
 capper and alderman, and John Clerk grocer and Nicholas Heynes 
 capper, overseers of the same testament of the second part, and 
 John Bonde mayor and the comnmuity of the City of Coventre 
 of the third part, and Thomas Waren the Master and the brethren 
 and sisters of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Mary 
 the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist and St. Katherine of Coventre 
 of the fourth part : Whereby the said Master brethren and sisters 
 of the aforesaid Guild covenanted that they Avould "yerely for 
 ever on the second day of the moneth of August cause an Obite 
 to be kept in the parishe church of Seint Mighell in the said Cite 
 for the soules of the seid John Saunders and Letyse, Agnes and 
 Alice his wiffes as is comenly usid for men of worshipe in the seid 
 Cite with dirige over nyghte and masse of the morowe with x 
 preistes iii clerks and ii children, every preiste to have iiic^., every 
 clerke iirf. and every childe a peny " &c. 
 
 C211. Also Counterpart of above indenture. 
 
 C212. 21 Henry VIII., March 6th. Deed of Assignment to Roger Wigston 
 and Thomas Try esquires by Elizabeth Swillyngton, widow and 
 executrix of the late Rauf Swillyngton esq., of all her interest in 
 the Manor or Lordship of Chillesmore in the county of the City of 
 Coventre, under Letters Patent dated on 7th June, 16 Henry 
 VIII., whereby the King granted for twenty-one years at a yearly 
 rent of 15<£ the said manor and lordship (with exceptions and 
 
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 reservations) to Geffrey Whalley prior of the monastery of 
 Uvescroft and to the convent of the same place, to the use of the 
 said Rauf Swillyngton for twenty-one years heginniug at Michael- 
 mas next after the date of the said Letters Patent ; it being 
 stipulated in the said assignment that the said Elizabeth shall 
 have and enjoy to herself and her assigns during all the said term 
 " the Manor Place of Chellesmore with all mottes and waters on 
 every side the said manor-place and all buyldings and gardynes 
 and litle groundes within the same mottes, and the grounde 
 without the mote on the southe side of the said manor-place 
 within the said parke, that is to sey along tlie freers gardyne or 
 orchard walle after the mote unto the Pynlok gate, as it hath of 
 olde tyme bene dyched and severed, with hegebet from tyme to 
 tyme to be taken within the said parke for the defence of the same 
 grounde, and to enclose and kepe severall or otherwyse to use the 
 same at the pleasure of the said Elizabeth during the said term, 
 and also a litell close with all the grounde without the mote and 
 est syde of the said manor place towards the citie, except only the 
 course and recourse with cataill to the pynloke." 
 
 O 213. 26 Henry VIII. Exemplification of the Final Concord made in the 
 King's Court at Westminster between Hugh Lawton and Baldewin 
 Porter Plaintiffs and Margaret Carpenter, widow, Katherine 
 Carpenter, widow, and Richard Carpenter Son and heir apparent of 
 the aforesaid Katherine, defo7'ciants, in respect to two messuages, 
 one garden and two cottages with appurtenances in the City of 
 Co ventre. 
 
 C 214. 28 Henry VIIL, June 16th. Grant for ever by William Marler of the 
 cite of Coventrie gentleman, son and heir of Richard Marler of the 
 same city grocer, of all his messuages, lands and tenements &c. in 
 Olde Fylonghley co. Warwick to William Holbache the Elder of 
 Fylonghley co. Warwick yeoman and Thomas Holbache the Elder 
 of Olde Filongley CO. Warwick yeoman. 
 
 C215. 28 Henry VIII., November 26th. Mortgage-deed, made on the said- 
 day between William Holbach the Elder and Thamas Holbach the 
 Elder, both of Filongley co. Yv^arwick yeomen, of the one x>(i-rt, and 
 William Marler of Coventre gentilman, son and heir of Richard 
 Marler late of Coventre grocer deceased, of the other part : 
 Whereby the said W^illiam Marler bargained and sold unto the 
 said William and Thomas Holbache his messuage, lands and 
 tenements &c. in Olde Filonghley co. Warwick, under condition 
 that, if the said William Marler pay or cause to be paid unto the 
 said William Holbache and Thomas Holbache or either of them 
 
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 forty and six pounds of lawful money of England at any time 
 before the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel in A.D. 1540, the 
 said bargain and sale of the said messuage and lands &c. shall be 
 void and of no force or effect. 
 
 C 216. 30 Henry VIII., May 31st. Lease for fourscore years, at a yearly rent 
 of £17 13 4, of a messuage with appurtenances in Goundou co. 
 Warwick " called the Mothouse," with an orchard, a garden, a 
 croft, a field, and divers closes and pieces of land, and also all 
 
 " tythes of woole and lambe with all rightes, dutyes, proffyttes 
 
 to them in the tytle and righte of tlie monasterie " of Coveutre 
 " and of the churches of Herdewyke and Priores Marston in the 
 countye of Warwick yerely growyng and renewyng and beyng 
 within the parysshes of Herdwyke and Prioures Marston," by 
 Thomas Camswell the Prior of the monastery of our Lady of 
 Coventre and the Convent of the same place to Myghell Bolde of 
 the said City yoman. 
 
 C217. 2 and 3 Philip and Mary. Acknowledgment by Gyles Allejnie, son 
 and heir of Ghistofer Alley ne deceased late of Littlebery co. Essex 
 (merchant of the Staple at Callice and one of the executors of the 
 testament of the same Christopher) and ])y Richard Barnerd (the 
 other executor of the same testament), of their receipt from John 
 Smith of Little Baddowe co. Essex esquire, son and heir of Sir 
 Clement Smyth knt. deceased, of the sum of two hundred pounds 
 paid to them " according to the forme and effecte of an indenture 
 of defesants made betwene the said Gristofer AUeyne and John 
 Smyth, bearing date the xiith day of Marche in the first and 
 second years of " the King and Queen, Philip and Mary." 
 
 C 218. 4 Elizabeth. Gift for ever of the gi'antor's half of the Manor of Olde 
 Fillongley co. Warwick, by Barnaby Holbeche of Younge Fillongley 
 CO. Warwick to his son William Holbeche. 
 
 219. 1 11 Elizabeth, October 10th. Deed of Sale and Assignment : Whereby 
 Sir Edward Saunders of Weston-under-Wetherley co. Warwick 
 knt., one of the King's (sic) Serjeants-at-Law and Recorder of 
 Coventre assigned to Thomas Dudley of Coventre gentleman, 
 Edward Damport of the same city pewterer and four other persons 
 of the same city the remainder of a lease for eighty years of a 
 Tower, standing in the south part of the wall of the said city, and 
 also the remainder of a lease for ninety-six years of a close called 
 Little Pudingcrofte adjoining the same south wall, which leases 
 were both granted to the said Sir Edward Saunders by the Mayor 
 bailiffs and community of Coventre. 
 
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 € 220. 
 
 C221. 
 
 C222. 
 
 C223. 
 
 C224. 
 
 10 Elizabeth, March 22nd. Indenture of an Agreement, made between 
 Queen EHzabeth of the one part and the Mayor bailiffs and 
 commoinaltie of Coventre of the other part : For placing luider 
 good goverment and conditions the manufacture of Cromple Lyste 
 and Ulterfyne or Utterfyne cloths, recently introduced into 
 Coventre from Armentiers in Flanders, and regulating the trade 
 in the same cloths ^\■itll rules and penalties, in furtherance of the 
 concessions made by Her Majesty to the people of Coventre, by 
 Letters Patent of the same date. 
 
 1575, March 28th. Letters Testimonial under the seal of Thomas by 
 divine permission Bishop of Lincoln : Certifying by the return of 
 an Inquisition, made with examination of credible witnesses 
 speaking upon oath, that William Tedde, late the rector of the 
 parish-church of Gawdebye in the diocese of Lincoln, about the 
 month of May 1552, journeyed towards the city of Coventre to 
 visit his friends and that on his return journey in the following 
 month of June he died, and that afcer the death of the said 
 
 Richard Tedde a certain Otterburie clerk, in the following 
 
 August of the same year, was instituted and inducted into the 
 same church and there remained for the whole year next following. 
 
 30 Elizabeth, March 10th. Agreement, made between John Home of 
 Stoke in the county of the city of Coventrey gentleman and his 
 son and heir-apparent Reginald Home of the one part and the 
 Mayor bailiffs and community of the city of Coventrey of the other 
 part. Whereby, in consideration of the sum of 80£ paid to them, 
 and for the relief of the poor of the said city, and for the repair 
 and maintenance of a hosj^ital called Bablake within the same 
 ci<-y, the said John Home and Reginald Home granted sold and 
 conveyed for ever all the lordship and manor of Stoke aforesaid, 
 with all the messuages, rights, privileges and appurtenances of the 
 same manor to the aforesaid Mayor bailiffs and community : With 
 an indented Schedule of " the Chiefe Rentes, parcel of the said 
 Manor of Stoke, attached to the Indenture. 
 
 1591, September 15th. Gift and Confu-mation for ever by William 
 Holbeche {sic) of Chadhunt (1) co. V/arwick yeoman to his son 
 Francis Holbeache {sic) of Parham co. Suffolk, of his half of 
 the Manor of Old Filonghly co. Warwick. 
 
 37 Elizabeth, August 13th. Deed of Sale and conveyance (made in 
 consideration of a payment of forty marks), by Barnabie Holbache 
 of Younge Fillonglie co. Warwick yeoman and William Holbache 
 son of the said Barnabie, of the Manor of Olde Fillonglilie co. 
 
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 Warwick, and the common and waste grounds called the Chappell 
 Greene and the Stange or Water-pond thereunto adjoining and 
 Newhaie Greene, and thirty acres upon Coreley Moore &c. and 
 divers Chief Rents to the Mayor bailiffs and community of Coventre, 
 to have and hold the same to them and tlieir successors for ever 
 " to and for the provision sustentacion and maintenaunce of the 
 House of Connection in the said citie of Coventre and for stocks 
 and stoores to the uses and according to the Statutes of the 
 Eighteenth and Five-and-Thirtieth yeres " of the said Queen. 
 
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 C 225. 44 Elizabeth, June 21st. Lease for sixty-one years, by Richard Butler, 
 John Herringe, Michell Smithe and Ralfe Dunnington, masters 
 and wardens of the Companie of Mercers of Coventre, of a 
 messuage or tenement " lately being a pagent house " in Gosford 
 Streete of the said city, to Richard Bankes of the same city 
 yoman, his executoi'S and assigns, at a yearly rent of twenty-seven 
 shillings. 
 
 C 226. 3 James I., March 9th. Lease for twenty-one years, by the Mayor, 
 
 bailiffs and commonalty of Coventre to Samuel of Stoke in 
 
 the county of the city of Coventry gentleman, of all " ther tithes 
 of corn, hey and herbage wood wooU lambe and all other titheable 
 thinges growynge rene\'\ynge and cominge in all those groundes 
 as they be now severed called and knowne by the name of 
 Bradokes Wast lying and beynge within the titheable places of 
 the Rectorie of St. Michaell and Trinitie within the city of 
 Coventre," at a yearly rent of thirty-three shillings and four-pence. 
 
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 C 227. 9 Charles I., August 20. Indenture of an Agreement made between 
 Bartholomew Bewley " of Coventrey plummer" of the one part and 
 the Mayor bailiffs and commonaltie of the said city of the other 
 part, opening thus, " Whereas long and of ancient times there 
 hath beene amongst others two conduits in the said citie whereof 
 one is commonly called the Bull Conduit and the other is called 
 Croscheaping C-onduit which conduits are and have beene usuallie 
 served and fedd with water by a maine pij^jo of leade laid and 
 placed from the spring or fountalne called Conduit head lying and 
 being in the Countie of the said Citie unto the coiiduits aforesaid 
 from and betweene which two conduits there is and hath bene 
 anciently a pipe of lead laid and placed ni the ground for convey- 
 ing and bringing of the said spring water from one conduit to the 
 other, and Whereas by agreement made betweene the said parties 
 the said Bartholomew Bewley did in August last undertake and 
 promise at his owne charges to take up the said pipe of lead
 
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 betweene the said conduit called the Bull Conduit and the other 
 conduit in the same citie called the Croscheaping Conduit and to cast 
 and make such a sufficient and substantial new cast pipe of" lead of 
 as great large and full a ])roportion as well for boare and thick- 
 nesse and weight as should in every respect be answerable to one 
 pece of cast pipe of leade then brought to remaine for a patterne 
 in the Counsell House of the said city &c." By the indenture, 
 which sets forth in these terms the source from which the two 
 principal conduits of the city drew their chief supply of water, 
 Bartholomew Bewley, besides undertaking to renew the pipe 
 running between the same conduits, also undertook amongst 
 other things, for a consideration and under conditions precisely 
 set forth in the writing, to keep the conduits and public water- 
 pipes of the city in repair for thirty-one years. — The historian of 
 Coventry in the seventeenth century should look at this important 
 agi-eement between the Corporation and its chief plumber. 
 
 Drawer I 
 
 <J228. 10 Charles I., December 18th. Deed of Sale and Conveyance, for a 
 sum of seven pounds, of a yearly rent of ten shillings, issuing from 
 a tenement in Bishopstrete in Coventre, by Ralph Walden of the 
 said city haberdasher to the Mayor, bailiffs and community of the 
 said city. 
 
 Case 26 
 
 C 229. 22 Charles II., February Stli. Indenture of an Agi-eement between 
 the Mayor bailiffs and community of the city of Coventry of the 
 one part and Sir John Hales of the same city baronet o_f the other 
 part ; Whereby the said Mayor bailiffs and community granted to 
 the said Sir John Hales all the stone of the Lady Tower, formerly 
 part of the Town Wall of the said city without Newgate, " which 
 wall by the King's commannd was lately demolished," and also 
 granted to the same Sir John Hales, his heirs and assigns, 
 for a term of ninety-nine years, a parcell of ground lying under 
 and adjoining the same Town Wall without Newgate, and also the 
 ground where such part of the Town Wall stood ; the said Grant 
 of stone and lease of ground being made by the Corporation in 
 consideration of 5^ paid by way of a fine, and also in consideration 
 of a yearly rent of five shillings to be paid by the grantee his heirs 
 and assigns throughout the said term of ninety-nine years. 
 Attached to this Indenture is "A Scheme of the demised 
 premises." ... 
 
 Drawer 1 
 
 C 230. 30 Charles II., July 16th. Deed of Sale and Conveyance of a messuage 
 or tenement in Much Parke Street in the City of Coventry, by 
 Robert Bedford, citizen and haberdasher of London to Anne
 
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 Bedford, Abigaell Bedford and Rebecca Bedford, of tlie city of 
 Coventry, sisters of the aforesaid Robert Bedford, and their 
 assigns. ... ... ... ... ... 
 
 C231. 30 Charles II., May 10. Indenture of an Agreement between Sir 
 William Dugdale, of Blyth Hall co. Warwick knt. George 
 Pochin of London Citizen and Salter and Samuel Barron of 
 London Citizen and Haberdasher of the first part and the Mayor 
 and 10 aldermen (named) of Coventry, of the second part ; Where- 
 by in consideration of ;^640 and for divers other considerations the 
 parties of the first part granted and sold for ever to the parties of 
 the second part divers messuages cottages lands and tenements 
 &c. in Coventry. 
 
 C232. 31 Charles II., September 9th. Deed of Sale of two messuages in 
 Much Parke Street in Coventre, by Anne Bedford, Abigaell 
 Bedford, and Rebecca Bedford, spinsters, daughters of Robert 
 Bedford, of the said city, alderman, to the Mayor bailitts and 
 community of the same city. 
 
 Drawer 2 
 
 Case 27 
 
 (B) WRITINGS WITHOUT LABELS, 
 
 Comprising 5,948 writings, the large body of deeds without labels, that 
 are put together in packets, often writings to each perfect packet, in 
 the order of the reigns in which the same wi-itings were respectively 
 made, consists of the deeds set forth in the ensuing table, to wit : — 
 
 Tad/e oj Deeds without Labels. 
 
 (1) Dateless Deeds, temp. 
 
 (2) Deeds with Dates, temp. 
 
 (3) 
 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 
 (6) 
 
 (7) 
 
 (8) 
 
 (9) 
 (10) 
 
 (n) 
 
 (12) 
 (13) 
 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp, 
 temp. 
 
 Henry HI. and Edward I. 
 Edward I. ... 
 
 Edward II 
 
 Edward III. 
 
 Richard II 
 
 Henry IV. ... 
 Henry V. ... 
 Henry VI. ... 
 Edward IV. 
 Richard III. 
 Henry VII. 
 Henry VIII. 
 Edward VI. 
 
 No OP Deeds. 
 
 490 
 
 176 
 
 405 
 
 1,518 
 
 341 
 
 163 
 
 102 
 
 309 
 
 159 
 
 20 
 
 130 
 
 175 
 
 32 
 
 Drawer No. 
 3 
 4 
 5 
 6, 7, 8, 
 10 
 11 
 12 
 12, 13 
 13 
 13 
 14 
 15 
 15
 
 75 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 No. OF Deeds. 
 
 Drawer No. 
 
 (14) 
 
 Deeds with Dates, temp. 
 
 Mary and Philip aiu 
 
 1 Mary 
 
 41 
 
 16 
 
 (15) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 EHzabeth . . . 
 
 
 ... 278 
 
 16,17 
 
 (16) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 James I. 
 
 
 241 
 
 18, 19 
 
 (17) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 Charles I. ... 
 
 
 479 
 
 20, 21, 22 
 
 (18) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 Commonwealth 
 
 
 184 
 
 23 
 
 (19) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 Charles II. ... 
 
 
 ... 268 
 
 24,25 
 
 (20) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 James II. ... 
 
 
 33 
 
 2G 
 
 (21) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 William and Mary 
 
 
 48 
 
 26 
 
 (22) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 William III. 
 
 
 56 
 
 26 
 
 (23) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 Aune 
 
 
 63 
 
 27 
 
 (24) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 George I. ... 
 
 
 5 
 
 27 
 
 (25) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 George II. ... 
 
 
 22 
 
 27 
 
 (26) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 George III.... 
 
 
 ... 166 
 
 28, 29 
 
 (27) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 George IV..., 
 
 
 6 
 
 29 
 
 (28) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 William IV. 
 
 
 20 
 
 30 
 
 (29) 
 
 
 , temp. 
 
 Victoria 
 
 
 23 
 
 30 
 
 Total number of the deeds put away in packets of 
 ten deeds to each perfect packet... 
 
 5,953 
 
 To show the precise number of unlabelled deeds in the collection, the fifty- 
 five Indentures of Apprentices, that are preserved in a single packet of the 
 " Miscellaneous Matters," and twenty-five other unlabelled Deeds that are pre- 
 served amongst the same " Matters," should be added to the aforewritten 5,953, 
 which additions will bring the total number of unlabelled deeds up to 6,033. 
 
 It follows that the total number of deeds in the muniment-room : — 
 
 Labelled Deeds 232 
 
 Deeds without Labels ... ... 6,033 
 
 Total Number of Deeds ... 6,265 
 
 Some of the deeds to which labels have been attached may be seen under 
 the glass lids of certain of the smaller cases in the Muniment-room. The other 
 labelled deeds have been placed in one or the other of No. 1 and No. 2 drawers, 
 immediately above the drawer in which the dateless deeds have been placed. 
 
 It also should be observed at this point tliat in the arrangement of the un- 
 labelled deeds up to the close of Queen Elizabeth's time the leases have been put 
 away with the other deeds ; but in arranging the deeds of later time, the present 
 writer withdrew the leases from the other deeds, and put them into packets (of 
 ten writings to each packet) by themselves.
 
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 IV. Exemplifications of Curial Records, Exceptionally 
 
 Interesting Writs, and Letters of Commission, not 
 BEING " Letters Patent dated by Sovereigns'.' 
 
 D L 14 Edward IV., November 18th. Exemplification of the em-olment 
 of an Indenture made on 3rd July, 13 Edwai'd IV., between the 
 Mayor and Community of Coventre of the one 'part and William 
 Bristoe alias Briscoe of the other part, for ending controversy 
 between the said parties, respecting right and title to certain 
 land lying in Whittley between the water of Shirbourn and 
 the Skynners' buttes ; With the award of Arbitrators for the 
 settlement of the said dispute. ... ... ... ... Case 12 
 
 D 2. 15 Edward IV., November 28th. Exemplification of the IJecord 
 (preserved amongst records of Pleas before the King at West- 
 minster in Trinity Term of 15 Edward IV.) of proceedings in 
 the cause of The Mayor and Community of the City of Coventre, 
 
 V. William Bristowe of Coventre gentleman, closing with verdict 
 of Jurors saying that the Mayor and Community of the said city 
 unjustly and without judgment disseised the said William of 
 twenty-eight acres of arable land and three acres of heath 
 lying under the park of Cheldesmore from the buttes called 
 the Skynners' Buttes to the water of Shirborn and that the 
 said William did not enter with violence and arms on the said 
 land called the " comengrownd " and did not disseise the said 
 Mayor and community of the same land. — This Exemplification 
 has been placed in No. 1 Drawer of the Muniment Room. Drawer 1 
 
 D 3. 21 Edward IV., October 26th. Exemplification, under the Seal of 
 the Kings Bench, of the Record of the proceedings in ihe said 
 Court in Easter Term of 33 Henry VI., when Elizabeth Bristowe, 
 widow of the late John Bristowe sued William Braytoft, Richard 
 Dene, Simon Byrches and Robert Lawe clerk for a third part of 
 the Manor of Whitley as her dower of the said John, formerly 
 her husband and recovered the same. ... ... ... Case 25 
 
 D 4. 5 Henry VIII., April 27th. Exemplification of the Record of the 
 proceedings in a cause heard in the Court of King's Bench at 
 Westminster in the Easter Term of 4 and 5 Hemy VIII. in 
 which cause Thomas Forde, Richard Kemsey, Thomas Grene clerk, 
 Robert Kemsey, William Tyllet and Hugh Mercer of Coventre 
 impleaded Alexander Arnold and Alice his wife sued and demanded 
 of them fifty messuages, twenty tofts, fifty gardens, four hundred
 
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 acres of arable land, one hundred acres of meadow, three hundred 
 acres of pasture, tliree hundred acres of wood, twenty acres of 
 marsh, three hundred acres of scrub and briery and })asture for one 
 hundred oxen and five hundred sheep, and six librates of rent, 
 with their appurtenances in Coventre, Keresley, Coundon, Foxhill 
 and Radford. 
 
 D 5. 36 Elizabeth, October 30th. Exemplification under the seal of the 
 Exchequer of entries in a book, formerly belonging to the Priory 
 of Coventre, and still remaining in the custody of the 
 Remembrancer of the Exchequer ; Certifying that the Prior and 
 Convent of Coventre had iu the "Wodende a tenement or messuage, 
 and also had as appurtenances to the same messuage two fields 
 called the Ruydinges, extending in one direction to the Waste of 
 the lordship of Stoke, and had as an appurtenance to the same 
 messuage a Waste called Bagot Waste lying between the Waste of 
 Robert de Stoke and the way towards Leicestre, and had also a 
 toft near the Wenchfeldes as an appurtenance to the said messuage, 
 and another croft, as an appurtenance to the same messuage, lying 
 in Wyken and called Wykyncroft ... 
 
 D 6. 21 James I. Exemplification of the Record, preserved amongst the 
 records of the Court of Exchequer of 20 James I., of the 
 pi'oceedings in a cause of Quo Warranto by the King against the 
 Mayor, bailifts, and community of the City of Coventre, closing 
 with judgment for the said Mayor bailifts and community and 
 their successors ... 
 
 D 7. 13 Charles I. Exemplification of a similar record of proceedings in a 
 cause of Quo Warranto by the King against the Mayor bailiffs and 
 community of the City of Coventre, endorsed " The discharge in 
 the Exchequer of the Quo Warranto, 1637." 
 
 Drawer 1 
 
 Case 18 
 
 Drawer 35 
 
 34 
 
 D 8. 11 Charles I., August 4th. Writ running in the King's name, 
 addressed to the Sheriff of the county of Warwick, the Mayor 
 bailiffs and community of the City of Coventre, and the Sheriffs 
 of the county of the same city, and the Bailiffs of the town of 
 Brymingham and the Warden and society of the royal town of 
 Sutton Coldfield co. Warwick, the Bailiff" aldermen and chief 
 burgesses of Stratford-upon-Avon co. Warwick, and all the worthy 
 men of the said city boroughs and members thereof, and in the 
 county of the said city, and in the towns of Warwick, Alcester 
 and Coleshill, and all the other towns, villages, hamlets and places 
 in the said county ; Requiring them to provide at their own charges 
 a ship of war of the freight of four hundred tons, manned with
 
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 one hundred and sixty able and expert seamen, and duly equipt 
 with victuals, arms and munitions of war, and to cause the same 
 ship, thus provided, manned, victualled, and equipt, to be brought 
 this side the first day of next March to the port of Portsmouth, 
 thence to proceed in the company of the said King's ships and the 
 ships of others his faithful subjects in an expedition to fight and 
 destroy the robbers and pirates of sea, Mahometan enemies of the 
 Christian name and others, who are harassing and despoiling and 
 plundering the ships, goods and merchandise of the king's subjects 
 and friends, and have carried men of the same ships into most 
 wretched captivity. — Also, three other writs for shipping of war 
 for the same purpose, dated on August 12th of 12 Charles I., 19th 
 September 13 Charles I., and 5th November 14 Charles I. — One 
 of these four writs is displayed under the glass lid of one of the 
 cases of the Muniment-room ; and the others are put away in a 
 separate packet of the "Miscellaneous Matters," 
 
 Case 20 
 Drawer 35 
 
 D 9. 35 Charles II., September 22nd. Letters of Commission signed and 
 sealed on the said day by Robert Earl of Sunderland, Lord 
 Lieutenant of the county of Warwick ; Appointing the Mayor of 
 Coventry for the time being. Sir Thomas Norton hart., Sir Arthur 
 Caley, Sir Robert Townesend knts., John Dugdale, Basil Fielding, 
 Henry Greene esqrs., Nathaniel Harriman, "Thomas King, Henry 
 Smith and Richard Heywood gentlemen, to be Deputy 
 Lieutenants for and in the City of Coventry and the county 
 of the said city. — Attached to these Letters of Commission is a 
 copy of the Letters Patent, dated on 5th September of the same 
 year, whereby Charles the Second appointed Robert Earl of 
 Sunderland to be Lord Lieutenant of co. Warwick and of all 
 cities and boroughs in the same county. 
 
 D 10. 1 James II., June 20th. Letters of Commission, signed and sealed on 
 the said day, by Robert, Earl of Sunderland, Lord Lieutenant of 
 the county of Warwick ; Appointing the Mayor of Coventre for the 
 time being and the gentlemen mentioned in the Earl's previous 
 Letter of Commission, to be his Deputy Lieutenants in and for the 
 City of Coventry and the county of the said city ; the Letters 
 Patent, dated on 11th of April, 1 James II., whereby the said 
 King appointed the said Earl to be Lord Lieutenant of the county 
 of Warwick &c., being attached to the Earl's present Letter of 
 Commission. 
 
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 79 
 
 V. Rolls and Files. 
 
 E 1. Detached membranes of two C^harter Rolls, to wit — (a) Roll of the 
 Charters of the Mills of Hulle and Radeford, and (6) Roll of 
 Charters touching lands at Podycroft, and other lands &c. in 
 Coventre. 
 
 E 2. Edward III. Detached membranes of a Court Roll (French and Latin) ; 
 Comprising a copy of the Record of Proceedings in Robert de 
 Morley's suit at York, 11 Edward III., against the Prior of 
 Coventre, for the I'ecovery of a messuage of a thousand acres of 
 arable land, ten acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture and 
 twelve acres of wood in Sowe. 
 
 Drawer 31 
 
 31 
 
 E 3. 
 
 E 4. 
 
 49 Edward III. Pleas taken at Assizes at Coventre 
 Sheriff of Warwick and the Justice of Assize. 
 
 With writs to the 
 
 50 Edward III. — 4 Richard IT. Seven remaining membranes of an 
 attenuated Sessions of Peace and " Oyer and Terminer " Roll. — 
 Also, a collection of " Broken Files " of Process and Indictments' 
 Files of General Sessions of Peace temp. Charles I., Commonwealth, 
 Charles II., William III., Anne and George I. — Also, Sessions of 
 Peace Indictments' Files of the years 1775, 1777, 1786, 1818, 1819, 
 1822. ... 
 
 „ 31 
 
 32 
 
 E 5. 4 Richard II. — James I. Frankpledge Rolls temp. Richaixl II., Henry 
 VI., Edward IV., Henry VII., Henry VIII., Elizabeth and James 
 I. : most of them being more or less fragmentaiy, whilst some of 
 them would be properly described as " mere remnants " of rolls. ... 
 
 E 6. 15 Richard II. — 3 Henry V. Remains of a Statute Merchant Roll 
 for the acknowledgment and enrolment of Debts : the Clerk of 
 the Statute throughout the considerable term of years, covered by 
 the remaining membranes of an interesting Roll of Record, being 
 John Ofchirch. — Also, four remaining membranes of another 
 Statute Merchant Roll, for the 8th, 12th, 13th, and 34th years of 
 the reign of Henry VI. — Also, detached membranes of similar rolls 
 for the acknowledgment and enrolment of Debts, of the years 
 15 and 26 Henry VIII., 29, 31, 33 and 45 Elizabeth, 1 James I., 
 33, 34, 35, and 36 Charles II., and 1, 2 and 3 James II. — Also 
 (26 Henry VIII.— 29 Charles II.), a heavy File of one huncbed and 
 eighteen Statute Merchant Rolls, for the acknowledgment and 
 enrolment of debts at Coventre, upon the same number of long 
 
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 80 
 
 E 7. 
 
 E 8. 
 
 E 9. 
 
 E 10. 
 E 11. 
 
 E12. 
 E 13. 
 
 membranes, for four years of Henry VIII., two years of Edward 
 VI., five years of Mary, thirth-six years of Elizabeth, twenty-two 
 years of James I., twenty-three years of Charles I., eleven years 
 of the Commonwealth Period and fifteen years of the actual 
 reign of Charles II. — N.B. The membranes of this imperfect 
 series of Statute Merchant Rolls appear to have been flattened out 
 and filed by a comparatively modern worker upon the Coventre 
 Recoi^ds. 
 
 I Henry VI. Survey of the C/ommon lands lying around the City of 
 
 Coventry. 
 
 20 Henry VI. Roll (a single indented membrane) of the Inventory of 
 the tapestry, needlework, seats of estate, registers, silver and 
 silver-gilt plate, napery (diapered and plain) and other chattels, 
 belonging to the Guild of the Holy Trinity of Coventry, and in 
 the custody of William Barynton, " ofticiarium dicte Guilde, 
 custodientem jocalia dicte Gilde subscripta." — This interesting 
 roll-inventory is displayed under the glass lid of one of the cases 
 in the Muniment Room. ... 
 
 II Edward IV. Copy ot the Record of Proceedings in the cause of 
 
 William Pere v. William Bristowe (otherwise spelt Briscowe) of 
 Coventry gentleman and William White of Whitley co. 
 Coventre husbandman, charged by the said William Pere with 
 assaulting him and breaking into his close &c. on 4th July, 10 
 Edward IV. 
 
 18 Edward IV. Roll (paper) of the Manor of Old Filongley. 
 
 3 Henry VIII. — 1829 A.D. Twenty-three Exchequer Quietuses of the 
 following years, to wit, 3, 4, 6, 7, 14, and 37 Henry VIII., 1 
 Edward VI., 2 and 3 Philip and Mary, 11 James I., 35 Charles II., 
 and 1783, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1811, 
 1824, 1827, 1829 A.D. ... 
 
 31 Henry VIII. Rental of the Prior's Lands. 
 
 1574 — 1725. Rentals of the Manor of Cheilesmore, School Lands, 
 lands formerly belonging to Guilds and Chantries, and Sir Thomas 
 White's Charity Estate : to wit. Thirteen Rentals of the years 
 1574, 1610, 1639, 1646, 1656, 1693, 1699, 1702, 1704, 1709, 1725. 
 
 Drawer 3 1 
 
 32 
 
 Case 24 
 
 Drawer 31 
 » 32 
 
 32 
 '32 
 
 32 
 
 E 14. i 1581. Mutilated Paper Roll, in vellum wrapper, of a Survey of the 
 pasture-grounds, meadows, closes and farms with their appurten- 
 ances, belonging to the Corporation of the City of Coventre. 
 
 31
 
 81 
 
 E 15. 
 
 9 James I. Court Baron Roll of the Manor of Stoke. 
 
 Drawer 3 1 
 
 E 16. 
 
 E 17. 
 
 E 18. 
 
 14 James I. Roll-Schedule of Arrears of rent due to King from tenants 
 of the Manor of Cheilesmoi-e, displaying at its foot a warrant, 
 signed by Fulke Grevyli, for levying distresses for the ^Jfiyment of 
 the same arrears, and also for arresting those tenants who refuse to 
 pay the sums due from them. 
 
 1714 — 1722. Roll of Admissions of Freemen of the City of Covenhy. 
 Also, another Roll, 1790 — 179G, of Admissions of Freemen. 
 
 Petition (not dated, but shown by internal evidence to have been made 
 in some year subsequent to 183fi) of Freemen of the several wards 
 of the City of Coventry to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
 of the said city : Praying that all moneys accruing from Lammas 
 and Common Lands, over and above the necessary charges for 
 management of those lands, may " be paid and appropriated to 
 the Seniority Fund already instituted for the benefit of the most 
 aged Freemen of this City. 
 
 „ 32 
 
 31 
 
 .31
 
 82 
 
 VI. Miscellaneous Matters. 
 
 F 1. 
 
 F 2 
 
 F 3. 
 
 Edward III. — Charles II. Packet of eighty Final Concords temp. 
 Edward III., Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., Henry VI., 
 Henry VI II., Edward VI., Philip and Mary, Elizabeth, James I., 
 Charles I., Commonwealth, C'harles II. 
 
 Richard II.— George III. Packet of fifty-five Indentures of Appren- 
 ticeship : the earliest of them being the Latin Indenture, dated on 
 15th September, 8 Richard II., whereby Robert Wellis bound 
 himself to serve John Thwening and Thomas Cawod, of Coventry, 
 as an apprentice for six years, and in doing so promised that he 
 would not haunt taverns or brothels, and would commit neither 
 " fornicacionem nee adulterium cum uxore, fillia (sic), nee nutrice 
 nee aliqua ancilla dictorum magistrorum infra domum nee extra." 
 — The later indentui^es were sealed temi^. Charles I., Charles II., 
 George II. or George III. 
 
 10 Edward IV. Large Vellum membrane, displaying on one of its 
 sides copies of the five following matters : — 
 
 («) The Bill of complaint and petition to the said King by Wilham 
 Bristowe of Coventi'e, who describes himself as having been 
 " seisyd of the manere of Whittley with the appurtenans withine 
 the countie of" the "Cite of Coventry " : — Cumplaining against 
 William Saunders mayor of the said city and William Pere and 
 Robert Orly citizens of the same city for having in the said 
 King's 9th regnal year " causeyd stered provokyd and commaundyd 
 many and dyvers rotys personys of the Feid cite, that is for to sey 
 Heiu-e Dabby carpenter, Nicolaus Kent sadeler, William Drew 
 wolman and John Bordale Smyth, with many other jotys personeys 
 of the said cite onto them acompeneyed to the number of Vc. 
 personys and more to your seid besechere oonknown In manere of 
 warre arrayed, that is to sey [with] byllys, launcegayes, jakkys, 
 salettys, bowes, arroAves and with mattokys, spadeys, sholles and 
 axes, which by ther commaundment ^^I'ovocaclon and sterying in 
 souche riotis wyse came to the seid liii clcsseys of your seid 
 besecher and the other landeys jiarcell of his seid maner and the 
 same tyme caste downe his gatys and his dyches, cutte down his 
 hegeys and his trees, the whiche dyches and hegeys have be ther 
 continued and useyd tyme [out] of mynde and mony grete okeys 
 beyng growyng in th(i hegeys and dycheys &c." : and Praying the 
 
 Drawer 33 
 
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 83 
 
 F 4. 
 
 said Kinjjf to grant his Letters of Privy Scale to be directed to the 
 said William Saunders late Mayor of Coventre and William Pere, 
 commanding' them to appear before the Privy Council, to answer 
 for the matters charged against them by the complainant. 
 
 (b) The answere of William Saunders, William Pere and John 
 Gauge, citizeimys ol the Citie of Coventre to the Bill sued ayeyns 
 them by William Bristowe. 
 
 (c) The Replicacion of William Bristowe to the answere of 
 William Saunders, William Pere and John Gauge. 
 
 (d) The Rejoindre of William Saunders, William Pere and John 
 Gange to the Replicacion of William Bristowe. 
 
 (e) The King's Writ of Mandate, dated Westminster on 18th 
 July in his lOth regnal year, and directed to the Prior of Mastoke, 
 Sir Richard Byngam knt., and Thomas Lyttelton : Requiring them 
 to make enquiry and by the examination of trustworthy witnesses 
 to ascertain the truth and justice of the matters in dispute .' s set 
 forth in the said Bill, Answer, Replication and Rejoinder between 
 the said William Bristowe and the City of Coventre, and to make 
 a return under their conclusions respecting the same, together 
 M ith the examinations of Witnesses to the King and his Council, 
 in the quindene of St. Michael next coming. 
 
 12 Edward IV., May 24th. The Sworn Declaration of thirty men of 
 various ages between 40 and 80 years inclusive, Protesting against 
 the trouble William Bristowe of Whitley has caused and is causing 
 the Mayor and community of tlie City of Coventre by " claymyng 
 the common grounde that lieth betweixt Baronfelde without the 
 newe yate under the Kynges Park stretchyng to Whitley broke 
 called Shirburne afferming hit to be his own lande,"' and certifying 
 that the said claim is " open wrong." In conclusion, the witnesses 
 against William Brist^iwe's claim say that, in consideration of their 
 seals being little known, they desired " the reverend fadirs John 
 Abbot of Kenelworth, Alexander Abbot of Combe, Richard Abbot 
 of Myryvale, John Abbot of Stonley, Symond Mountfort knyght, 
 Robert Strelley knyght, and William Hugtbrd, in whose presence " 
 they have sworn upon a book to the truth of their evidence " to 
 sette their seals to these presents."- — This curious Affidavit, fringed 
 at the bottom with strings of hanging seals, has been placed under 
 the glass lid of one of the cases in the muniment-room. 
 
 35 Henry VIIL— 1716 A.D.— Parcel containing (a) 35 Henry Till, to 
 1609 A.D. Notes and Memoranda touching Synodal. 's aud 
 
 Drawer 1 
 
 Case 25
 
 84 
 
 Procurations tbi'merly paid by officers of the Prior of Coventry to 
 the Bishop of Coventre and Lichfield. — (6) 4 Henry VIII. Proofs 
 that Stycehall is parcel of the Rectory of St. Michael's Church, 
 Coventre. — (c) Edward VI. Bill prepared for the King's Sign 
 Manual by the Mayor and community of Coventre, praying for a 
 grant of Bablake Church. — (d) 1593, April 22. Exemplification 
 by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield of divers records (touching 
 Stlvichall, St. Michael's Church, Ruyton and Bubnel) preserved in 
 the Liber Albus of the said Dean and Chapter. — (e) Charles L 
 Book of the Subscribers, with their contributions, to a Loan for 
 the King's use. — (fj 1698 A.D. Certificate that Lieutenant 
 Lawrance Fox took the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in St. 
 Michael's Church, Coventry, on Sunday 12th June, 1698. — 
 (^r) 1716, May 14th. Exemplification of a Recovery made in the 
 King's Bench in Easter Term, 2 George I., by Thomas Smith 
 gentleman, of two houses and two gardens in Coventry. 
 
 F 6. 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. Copy (certified to be " vera copia " by 
 William Berners and Thomas Mildmay) of the original Warrant 
 under the signet and sign manual, addressed by the said King and 
 Queen to their Commissioners William Barnes, Thomas Mildemay 
 and John Wyseman, for the acquittance and discharge of the 
 Mayor aldermen and inhabitants of Coventrie, in respect to their 
 action in taking and detaining the two bells and lead of " the late 
 religious hous of White Friers in the said Citie of Coventrie," 
 which house " at the tyme of the late dissolucion of Abbies, 
 Priories, Monasteries, Chauntries and other religious houses within 
 
 this I'ealme of Englande was suppressed and pulled downe to 
 
 the great defacing of the said Citie," when " the tymber, tilles 
 
 and other ornaments apperteynmg to the said church was 
 
 (sic) sold to the said persones." 
 
 F 7. 7 Elizabeth— 1681 A.D. File of yearly Reccii^ts from 7 Elizabeth to 
 1681 A.D., in acknowledgment of the payment of a sum of 40£, to 
 to be paid yearly by the Mayor and community of the City of 
 Coventre to the President and Fellows of the College of St. John 
 the Baptist in Oxford. 
 
 F 8. 1566 — 1779. Collection of multifarious writings (Certificates, Orders, 
 Warrants, Declarations, Vouchers, &c.), some being signed by 
 Mayors of Coventry, that seem to have been sorted and arranged 
 by some manipulator of Coventre MSS , with a view to the 
 production of another Volume of Materials for the use of local 
 historians. — Together with some unarranged Avritings of no great 
 interest. 
 
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 F 9. 26 ElizuljL^lIi, November 14th. — DuplicuLo of the AddresR offerud to 
 Queen F^lizabeth by 201 of her Majesty's loyal and faitliiul citizens 
 of Coventre, who declare their abhorrence of the wicked desij^ns 
 and ijracLiccs whereby certain of her enemies seek to deprive her 
 of her crown and life, and who in fit terms of affectionate and 
 reverential devotion inform Her Highness that they have formed 
 themselves into an Association, each member of which is bound by 
 his oath to do his utmost to frustrate the detestable elforts of her 
 said enemies, to discover their plots, and to " pursue as well by 
 force of arms as by all other means of revenge, warranted Ijy the 
 laws of this realme alle manner of persones of what estate soever 
 they shalbe, and their abetters, that shall attempt by any act, 
 counsaile or consent, anything that shall tend to the harme of her 
 Majesty's royall person." In the last line of the body of their 
 address, the makers of this manifesto of loyal sentiment declare 
 themselves " most reddie to accept and admitt any other hereafter 
 to this our Societie and Association," for the safety of the Queen 
 and the welfare of her kingdom ; The address being followed on 
 the same parchment by the seals and signatures of the " ten scoore 
 and one " members of the Society. 
 
 F 10. 16th to 19tb Century. Collection of miscellaneous writings — to wit, 
 Petitions to the Mayor of Coventre, Bonds, Uocquet Books, 
 Freemen's Certificates, &c., including an Order of General Sessions 
 of Peace respecting a colourable and fraudulent apprenticeship — 
 formerly belonging to the Company of " the Craftes of Carpynters, 
 Tilers and Pinnei's " of the City of Coventry. 
 
 F 11. 1618 — 1717. Packet of writings relating to Chancery Suits : Described 
 on old paper wrapper as " Papers in Chancery Suits." 
 
 F 12. 1620 — 1642. Collection of acknowledgments by successive collectors 
 of half-yearly payments of 33s., made by the Mayor bailiffs and 
 comynaltie of the City of Coventre to the use of successive 
 Receivers-General of the Duchy of Cornwall, by way of rent due 
 half-yearly from the said Corporation, for the Mansion House, 
 Park, Mill, &c., of the Manor of Cheilesmore. 
 
 F 13. 1621—1664. Hawkesbury Coal Mines :— Large Packet of Leases, 
 granted by the Mayor and Corporation of Coventry in the years 
 1621, 1631, 1633, 1664 of lands in and about Hawkesbury in the 
 parish of Sowe to divers tenants, \\ho were empowered by their 
 respective leases to dig raise and sell coals commonly called " ston- 
 coale, sea-coale or joit-coale " from the " coale mynes, delphes and 
 veynes of coale" in the said lande. These Indentures should be 
 perused by any writei v. ho would })roduce a perfect history of the 
 Mines of the Midland Counties. 
 
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 F 14. 1621 — 1664. Anotlier Packet of Leases of Hawkesbury Coal Mines. Drawer 34 
 
 F 15. 13 Cliarles I. Draft Plea upon a Quo Warranto, prepared for the City 
 I of Coventry on 255 sheets, and "perused and approved" on 12th 
 
 of February, 1637, by Thomas Denne "as good in lawe and a 
 sufficient answer" ; With copy of the Quo Warranto. — Also in the 
 same packet an Exemjilification of " The Discharge in the Exche- 
 quer of the Quo Warranto, 1637." 
 
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 1713 — 1751. Packet of Churchwardens' and Overseers' Papers ; 
 touching official business of Chui-chwardens and Overseers of the 
 poor of the parishes of St. Michael and the Holy Trinity of 
 Coventry, and of other parishes more or less remote from 
 Coventry. 
 
 1716 — 1829. Parcel of Writings (Pa-ntals, Accounts, Briefs to Counsel, 
 Petitions, &c.) touching Coventry Charities. 
 
 11 George I. Writ running in tlie King's name, on eleven large 
 membi'anes of thick parchment, for the Execution of a Decree, 
 made by Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, ordering a reconveyance of 
 Sir Thomas W^hite's Charity Estate to the Mayor bailiffs and 
 commonaltv of the City of Coventry, together with all the said 
 Corporation's right and interest in the said estate : — Opening with 
 a statement of the particulars of the Grant of Guilds' and 
 Chantries' lands tenements and rents &c., made to the Corporation 
 on 19th July, 34 Henry VIII. ... ... • ... 
 
 1745 — 1759. Two Packets of Constables' Warrants and Vouchers : 
 Comprising vouchers and warrants of 1745 and 174G, touching 
 soldiers &c., that are of some slight historic interest. 
 
 g Cheylesmore 
 
 1747 — 1780. A medley of Bills and Documents touchin 
 
 Park, and Papers relating to Coventry Charities : Sorted and 
 arranged by some person who probably designed to put them 
 together in another bound Volume of Material for future Historians 
 of Coventry. — Also, a few writings of no greater moment, though 
 of a more remote period. ... ... ... ... 
 
 1758. Papers relating to a renewal of the lease of the Park and 
 Podicrofts. 
 
 1760, May 24th. Conveyance of New Court in Gosford Street, and of 
 a messuage and garden at Spon End, by Mrs. Vale and others to 
 Edward Bibbins esq. Mayor, and others, Members of the Cospora- 
 tion of Coventry. 
 
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 F 2G. 
 
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 F 29. 
 F 30. 
 
 1819 — 18.37. Packet containing (a) Papers — to wit, Affidavits and 
 Briefs to Counsel, &c. — touching the ca ise of The King v. 
 Jeremiah Goodall and others, in the King's Bench in 1810 ; 
 (i) Copy of tlie Affidavit of Mr. John Carter, Town Clerk of the 
 City of Coventry, in the cause of Rex v. Banbury, 1835 ; and (c) 
 Papers touching matters in Chancery, respecting certain of the 
 Coventry Charities. 
 
 1831. Briefs, Affidavits and other Papers, in the matter of the 
 Frankland Fellowship at Catlierine Hall, Cambridge. ... 
 
 1834 — 5. Briefs, Affidavits and other Papers in tlie cause of Rex v. 
 Banbury, in the Court of King's Bench : With a copy of the 
 Order for the i.ssue of a Writ of Mandamus directed to Thomas 
 Banbury, " Commanding him to take upon himself the Office of 
 Chamberlain to the City of Coventry." 
 
 Packet of Facsimiles of old writings, to wit, (a) Eight Facsimiles of 
 Henry the Second's Charter of confirmation of Earl Ranulph's 
 Charter to the men of Covintre ; (b) Eight Facsimiles of tlie 
 Letter of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, Mother of Henr\r VII., 
 to the Mayor of Coventre ; and (c) Three Facsimiles of the 
 " Humble Petition to the King in behalf of the poore inhabitants 
 of Coventry," dated in 1660." 
 
 1790 and 1791. Three Tallies (notched sticks) of the account of a 
 baker of Coventry (one Thomas Parker), amounting to £1 7 Q 
 for loaves of bread sent In to Bablake Hospital. — Of course, they 
 are not manuscripts in any sense of the term ; but as numerous 
 persons of Coventry take an interest In these wooden scores, and 
 as they have for a long tarm of years been preserved amono-st 
 the Corporation muniments, I notice them at the end of the 
 Miscellaneous Matters of this catalogue, and have moreover 
 placed them under the glass lid of one of the Cases of the 
 Muniment Room. 
 
 Trough ton Drawings 
 
 Poi'tfolio of Prints, &c. 
 
 Portfolio of Miscellaneous Old Papers 
 
 10 vols. 
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