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Having recited: firstly, that during 1707 the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty added three poor men to the number in Bablake [Bond's] Hospital in consideration of £430 which formed the proceeds of sale of timber to Mr. John Collins [clothier] and £60 as an entry-fine upon a lease of [a] Fillongley [,Warwickshire] farm to Mr. Matthew Holbeche [lord of Alspath manor, Meriden, Warwickshire until he died in 1713], together with unspecified rent-rises; and secondly, that, in the hospital rental, the corporation was charged with £24/10/- as £5% per annum interest upon the £430 and £60: therefore that body grants to Jonah Crynes (alderman and merchant]), John Yardley (alderman and clothier]), Francis Cater (gentleman [merchant]), Catesby Oadham (gentleman [mercer]), Thomas Palmer (alderman [and glover]), John Snell (alderman [and mercer]), Thomas Diston (alderman [and mercer]), Samuel Collins (alderman and clothier]), Matthew Goodall (alderman [and chandler]), Samuel Walker (mercer), John Hassard (flaxdresser), Samuel Hunt (mercer), Benjamin Brockhurst (goldsmith) and Joseph Olds (mercer), all of Coventry, the surviving Bond's Hospital feoffees, a £24/10- annuity upon (a) a close (1.5 a.) occupied by [the coachman] John Mitchell in the Welsh Market outside Bishop Gate whereon once stood eight tenements, later made into barns, having a 39-yard frontage and bounding on the north John Mitchell's land from which it is divided only by meerstones, on the northwest by Radford way, on the northeast by [the carpenter] Edward Bushell's and [the corvisor] William Mitchell's land; (b) a close (2 a.) outside Well Street Gate, adjoining the town wall on the northwest and successively tenanted by Robert Farnworth [see BA/D/A/19/9(az)], Joseph Sherwood [corvisor] and now Vincent Dudley [innholder]; (c) a close (8 a.) called Coopers Field (adjoining [Lockhurst] Lane), lately occupied by the butcher John Warden but now by [the butcher] Thomas Warden; (d) Little Poddy Croft (4 a.) beyond the town wall, bounding Great Poddy Croft southwest, the River Sherbourne northwest, the town wall northeast and [the clothier] Mr. John Basnet's close tenanted by the butcher John Moore on the southeast; and (e) Great Poddy Croft (12 a.), severally held by William Scott (innholder), Edward Smith [clothier] and Thomas Smith [butcher], Richard Adderley [corvisor], Jeremiah Carpenter and Alderman John Snell, adjoining Little Poddy Croft on the northeast, the Sherbourne on the northwest and Crow Moat lane on the southwest: the trustees may distrain if the annuity fall forty days behindhand, and re-enter if it be three months in arrears.
17 Mar 1714. Endorsed memorandum that the deed was produced to Jonah Crynes and Joseph Cater[attorney], gentlemen, upon examination in re Attorney-General et al v mayor, bailiffs and commonalty and John Collins.