Whereby, having recited: firstly, that, in obedience to an 8 Mar 1759 Chancery decree in re Attorney-General at the relation of the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty and of Thomas Oldham junior (mayor) and John Hewitt (informant and alderman) for the corporation (complainants) and John Smith (gentleman), George Secker (mercer), Edward Gravenor senior (weaver), Benjamin Masfen (merchant), Samuel Fairfax (threadman), James Boydell (mercer) and William Belcher (merchant), all of Coventry, along with Right Honourable Thomas, Lord Archer (the city recorder) as supplemental defendants, John Smith et al (less Lord Archer but plus Richard Sprigg (of Coventry, fellmonger)) released to Joseph Cater (alderman) and Joseph Hewitt (gentleman), both of Coventry, premises hereinafter described to John Smith et al's use for the charity's maintenance, with Thomas Oldham (alderman), John Hewitt (alderman), Edward Bibbins junior (clothier), Samuel Oldham (silkman), George Porter (flaxman), Richard Langham (weaver), William Roberts (butcher), John Clarke (cabinetmaker), James Soden (silkman), James Elliott (cordwainer), Christopher Hooke (cutler), John Remington (mercer), Raphael Summerville (pinmaker), Edward Gravenor junior (silkman), Charles Belcher (silkman) and John Secker (mercer) as new trustees; secondly, that on 28-29 Sep 1784, in consideration of 10/- from Robert Simson (doctor of physic) and Edward Inge junior (gentleman), both of Coventry, John Hewitt, William Roberts, John Clarke, James Soden and John Remington released to them the premises for those continuing trustees' use and that of the new ones Stephen Corbett (silkman), Joseph Haycock (clerk [in Holy Orders]), Joseph Craner (gentleman), Edward Gulson (fellmonger), Richard Clift senior (stuffmerchant), Joseph Freeth (maltster), William Nixon (mealman), Richard Hands (baker), Francis Clarke (silkman), Edward Soden (silkman), William Freeman (gentleman), Samuel Oldham (tanner), John Twitty Eburne (flaxdresser), William Stanbridge (silkman), Benjamin Pratt (stuffmerchant), John Eburne (silkman), George Lea (silkman), Gerrard Rawes (warehouseman) and Richard Booth (in 1848 "senior"); thirdly, the similar enfeoffment on 23-24 Jan 1817 by the surviving feoffees Edward Soden, John Twitty Eburne, Benjamin Pratt, John Eburne, Gerrard Rawes and Richard Booth senior, with Charles Lilly and Charles Harris as trustees, to themselves and the new feoffees Thomas Pratt, James Whittem, John Hands (in 1848 of Coventry, gentleman), Richard Booth junior (in 1848 likewise), Abraham Herbert, John Waterfall, Joseph Gulson, William Gater, John Gibbins, William Clarke, William Hill Pears, Thomas Horsfall (in 1848 of Coventry, gentleman), Lambert Horsfall, Thomas Berry, James Soden, William Flavell, Richard (Holland) Goode (in 1848 of Allesley, Warwickshire, gentleman) and Joseph Chamberlain Milbourne; fourthly, 19-20 Mar 1817 lease and release whereby (reciting (1) that the 27 Sep 1784 lease had not been executed by any parties to the Mar 1817 deeds but that the 28 Sep 1784 release had been executed by John Clarke, a surviving trustee in 1817, though not by the other then survivors; (2) that John Hewitt et al were all dead, with John Remington as the longest liver; (3) that the estate, except Bond's Hospital itself, was in 1784 leased to several tenants, so that the 1784 release's having been signed by J. Clarke might be considered to have severed the joint tenancy of all but the hospital, and to have vested one-fifth of the estates in those trustees to whom that indenture had conveyed them; (4) that the one-fifth was therefore vested in Edward Soden et al, the surviving trustees under that release; (5) that the Jan 1817 indentures vested the one-fifth of the lands in those thereby surviving and continuing trustees, but that the almshouse and the other four-fifths would be deemed vested in John Remington as last survivor under the 1760 feoffment and after his death in his nephew Thomas Wilson (of Tyndale Place, Islington, Middlesex, esq.); and (6) that Thomas Wilson's living in London would make it difficult for him to attend meetings), for 10/- from Charles Lilly and Charles Harris, T. Wilson and all the trustees assigned the premises to that pair for the trustees' use; and fifthly, that only Richard Booth senior, John Hands, Richard Booth junior, Thomas Horsfall and Richard Holland Goode survive: therefore for 10/- they entrust Right Honourable William, Lord Craven, Right Honourable Chandos, Baron Leigh, Charles Newdigate Newdegate (of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, esq.), Charles William Goode (of Allesley, Bachelor of Arts), Abijah Hill Pears (of Coventry, dyer), Edward Cooper (of Coventry, currier), Edward Humphrey Woodcock (of Coventry, banker), Reverend Frederick David Perkins (of [Walsgrave-on-]Sow[e], Warwickshire, clerk [in Holy Orders]), Thomas Berry (of Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer), William Spencer (of Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer), John Wyley (of Coventry, chemist and druggist), Henry Newsome (of Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer), William Clarke (of Stoke, Warwickshire, ribbon-manufacturer), Abraham Taylor (of Coventry, mercer and draper), Robert Seal (of Coventry, mercer and draper), William Franklin (of Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer), John Gulson (of Coventry, silkmerchant) and William Matthews (of Coventry, builder) with (a) Bablake Hospital with a tenement on its chapel''s site; (b) a messuage, formerly two tenements, in Earl or High Street (successively occupied by (1) William Butlin, (2) Robert Newbold, William Samuel Townsend and John Swindells, and now (3) John Scampton); (c) two messuages built on the site of one in Fleet Street which had been occupied by - Wagstaffe and Joseph Gibbons, whereas these were lately let to Richard Hall and Walter Brind but now to Phineas Ayton and John Johnson; (d) a Fleet Street messuage, sometime since divided into three (successively held by (1) William Cook, John Ireson and John Grimsby, (2) John Hassall, now (3) Charles Dutton and his namesake son); (e) Cottrells Close, now in two parts, in Harnall, lately in Coventry but now in Warwickshire (successively farmed by Thomas Soden, Richard Owen and now Joseph Liggins); (f) Little Conduit Fields, formerly in Coventry but now in Warwickshire (successively cultivated by Samuel Carter, John Wilson and now Joseph Jordan), comprising a meadow and pasture which together are divided into four by the Holyhead Road; (g) Hicks Fields, Coundon, Warwickshire, now divided into several parts, with a messuage, etc. which Joseph Liggins tenants in succession to Joseph Laband; (h) an enclosure on Brownshill Green, Coundon, allotted to the trustees for (g), in lease to William Beacham; (i) Pit Field with adjacent croft, Radford, formerly in Coventry but now in Warwickshire (successively farmed by Thomas Soden, William Carter and now George Handley); (j) a Bulkington, Warwickshire cottage with lands (successively let to Thomas Jee, William Taylor and now Jonathan Taylor); (k) a messuage, toft and close at Bulkington, with fields, successively let as (j) excepting what has been taken for the Trent Valley Railway [i.e. the West Coast main line from Rugby to Stafford]; (l) Arley, Warwickshire pastures; (m) lands and tenements at Arley (successively held by (1) John Owen and Joseph Wright Clark, (2) John Owen and now (3) Thomas Owen); (n) a messuage at "Slowly" Hill, Warwickshire; (o) lands at Arley successively cultivated by Frances Morewood, Joseph Fullard and Amy Fullard; (p) one-third of Fillongley manor, Warwickshire; (q) property and services in Old and New Fillongley which the Court of King's Bench allotted to the trustees in lieu of one-third of the premises to which they were entitled in the Fillongleys, Corley, Alspath and Marlbrooks, Warwickshire (successively tenanted by (1) John Allen, (2) James Wright and now (3) Jonathan Taylor); (r) one-third of the woods in Old Fillongley, etc. (successively managed by (1) Christopher Awson, (2) Edward Soden, John Twitty Eburne, Benjamin Pratt, John Eburne, Gerrard Rawes, Richard Booth et al qua trustees, now (3) by Richard Booth senior et al); (s) a Bitteswell, Leicestershire messuage, successively the dwelling of William Harrison, Edward Glover and now Elias Green; (t) a Bitteswell messuage and lands, in lease successively like (s); (u) a Bitteswell messuage and lands successively demised to Thomas Abbott and Elias Glover; (v) Beechwood Farm, Berkswell parish, Warwickshire, formerly in the tenure of Edward Gardner; New House Farm, Berkswell, lately on lease to William Hamilton; and (w) Barn Field, New Orchard, Rough Pingle, White Field, Upper Meadow, Middle Meadow, Little Taylors, Great Taylors, Middle Field, Wood Field, Great Wood, Calves Croft, Crabtree Fields, Pit Fields, Lower Meadow, Little Wood, Hob Field and Pear Tree Field, except what was taken for the London & Birmingham Railway, belonging to the aforesaid Berkswell messuages, which were conveyed on 8-9 Dec 1727 by Edward Carter (then late of Kensington, esq.) and his wife Ann to Thomas Burgh, Samuel Kimberley, George Greenway, Jonah Crines, Edward Smith, Henry Cockram, Daniel Davies, Thomas Wright, Nathaniel Alsopp, Jonathan Grundy, William Wood, William Nurden, Thomas Herbert, John Moore, Thomas Bott, Richard Poole and Edward Shaw, the then surviving Bond's Hospital trustees, having been occupied successively by (1) Joseph Coates and Edward Swift, (2) Marmaduke Theakstone, (3) William Cox and now (4) Richard Dormer: all to be held to the use of the surviving and continuing feoffees.