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Proclamation of Apprehension of four men (three being corporators) because of electoral malpractice, 1702: PA25/1.
Weavers' Company loan to corporation, 1714. PA34/3.
Gift from Weavers' Company to mayor, 1755. PA34/3.
Mayors qua Weavers' Company head masters, eighteenth century. PA34/3,3.
Involvement in association raised for city's defence tempore 1745 rebellion, PA36/3.
Improvement of water-supply, 1884-87. PA36/4.
Appointment of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire Grammar School headmaster, 1627. PA44.
Charges for the James I charter, 1621. PA45/1 fols.1,2.
Charles II's recommendation of a tenant, 1664. PA45/1 fols.3,4.
Great Fair expenses, 1765. PA45/1 fol.5.
"King's Head" dinner-bill [,eighteenth century]. PA45/1 fol.7.
Thomas Soden's expenses, 1804. PA45/1 fol.8.
Sheriff's inquisition into John Villiers' debts, 1806. PA47/66/1.
Lease of Sheriffs' Orchard [Sir Thomas White's Charity estate], 1790. PA47/57/1.
Leases of Cross Cheaping premises, 1791 - 1809. PA47/58/1; PA47/67/1.
Deed poll concerning sheriffs, 1806. PA47/66/1.
Use of Sir Thomas White's Loan money as a collateral security for Hill Street and Town Wall properties' mortgages, 1792. PA50/3.
Mayor's application to stop up a Poddycroft footpath, 1891. PA67/29.
Grant of Spon End Mill by Sir Thomas White's Charity trustees, 1876. PA67/2.
Town Clerk's correspondence about construction of road through Poddycroft, 1895-96. PA67/33.
Brief for counsel about stopping up footpaths near Gosford Street, 1905, which involved trustees of General Municipal Charities, with statement by City Engineer. PA67/42.
Coventry Liberal Association Municipal Committee Minute Book, 1909-24. PA68/8.
Town Clerk's letter ahout return of PA69/1, 1904. PA69/2 fol.6.
Swordbearer's and cleric's receipts, 1660-68. PA71/1 fol.9.
Involvement in foundation of Smith's Chantry, Greyfriars', 1500. PA71/1 fol.134.
Mayor's note ahout payment of labourers, 1616. PA71/1 fol.172.
Lease of tower on city wall and Little Poddycroft close, 1550. PA73/1.
Warwickshire Lieutenant's letters of deputation for array, 1625. PA73/2.
Charter officers witnessed Trinity Guild lease, 1416. PA76/1.
Two aldermen concerned in bond for land at Packington Pigot, Warwickshire, 1567. PA76/4.
Coventry corporation receipt under Simon Norton's will, 1642. PA76/11.
Lease of Spon Street house, 1702-64. PA76/14/18.
Profits from property in John Gulson's will, 1742. PA76/19.
"Midland Daily Telegraph" cutting about style of handwriting and coat-of-arms on 1819 freemen's oath, 1933: PA79/1 fol.3.
Officials' payments and other accounts, 1740-42. PA84/1 fols.13-16.
Mayor's admission-cards for London reception and York banquet, 1873. PA86.
Mayor, bailiff and coroner witnessed Coventry deeds, 1296 - 1350. PA87/2-5.
Mayor's receipt to Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield for relief of French Church, London, 1621. PA87/11.
Agreement for lease of mines to Earl of Dover, 1636. PA87/14.
Will of Richard Wright, 1640. PA87/15.
Conveyance of Gosford Street house, 1678. PA87/22,23.
Feoffment of site of Jordan Well house, 1732. PA87/39,40.
Feoffments of property in Cross Cheaping, West Orchard, Palmer Lane, Burges, Priory vicinity (later "Priory Court"), Priory Mill, Saint Nicholas' Hall, New Buildings, Fleet Street, Spon Street, Spon Lane, Spon Causeway, 1552 - 1747. PA90.
Cross Cheaping land, 1648, 1683. PA94/1,2.
Parts of Drapers' Company apprentices' indentures deposited in council chambers, early seventeenth century. PA99/1 fols.12 recto - 14 recto.
Coventry Corporation tithe rent-charge receipts, 1893 - 1909. PA99/11/37,38; PA99/12/27,28; PA99/14/21,22; PA99/16/26; PA99/18/27; PA99/19/31,32; PA99/20/29.
Involvement of mayor or ward-aldermen under Weavers' Company ordinances, 1639. PA100/4 fols.3 recto - 15 recto.
City justices' alleged bias during Weavers' Company's dispute with Drapers' Company, c.1631. PA100/12/34.
General corporation involvement in the above dispute, 1631-32. PA100/12/35,36,43.
Weavers' Company fee-farm rent-receipts, 1816-37. PA100/22/5-22.
Charter-officers witnessed Weavers' Company deeds, fourteenth century - fifteenth century. PA100/25ff.
Chief Constable's bills, 1807-13. PA101/1/145-159.
Grant of Earl Street tenement, 1572. PA101/1/319.
Assignment of "Irons for the sword and mace", 1681. PA101/1/353.
Loan of Sir Thomas White's money to Thomas Smith, confectioner, 1751. PA101/1/362.II.
J.W. Perkins' purchase of Hillfields land from corporation, 1860. PA101/2/209.
Rate-bills, 1934. PA101/3/30-31.
William Spell, alderman, occupied West Orchard messuage, 1854. PA101/4/230.
Sir Thomas White's Loan trustees' mortgage-claims upon Anglish Lane messuages, 1787-89. PA101/5/28-32.
John Whitwell, alderman, trustee for Spon Street premises, 1793. PA101/5/66-70.
1750 Sir Thomas White's Loan mortgage for Spon Street premises mentioned, 1751. PA101/5/103-104.
Early-nineteenth century Sir Thomas White's Loan mortgage for Mill Lane premises mentioned, 1838: PA101/7/136.
Catesby Oadham, alderman, enfeoffed Cave King with "Rose and Crown" High Street appurtenances, 1703: PA101/7/279.
Jonah Crynes and Nathaniel Harryman and his daughter were among owners of property in High Street, 1675 - 1725. PA101/7/282-283,300-301.
John Rogerson, alderman, occupied messuage near Broadgate, mid seventeenth century. PA101/7/299.
Thomas Diston's bequest to poor of Broadgate Ward for which he had been alderman, 1721. PA101/8/17.
Corporation's Harnall Fields land, part of Sir Thomas White's Charity's, 1551 - 1803. PA101/8/18.I-III.
Mortgage of Spon Street messuage for Sir Thomas White's Charity Loan, 1754-79. PA101/8/167-172.
Corporation lease of Hearsall Common land, 1790 - 1801. PA101/8/192-194.
Corporation lease of Steeplefields to a butcher, 1832. PA101/8/203.
Mortgage of "Griffin" inn, etc., Gosford Street to obtain Sir Thomas White's Loan moneys, 1789. PA101/8/243.
Sale-agreement clause about completing frontage to City Engineer's satisfaction, 1927. PA101/8/683.
Sophia Hall was the daughter of Thomas Hall, late alderman, 1848. PA101/8/689.
Joseph Phillips mentioned as having been an alderman, early nineteenth century. PA101/8/731.
John Kirkman, alderman, had Ram Bridge premises [, late eighteenth century]. PA101/8/804.
Loans to Thomas Raby and William Newey (worstead weaver) from Sir Thomas White's Charity, 1766-76. PA101/8/898-900.
John Clark was an alderman, and a trustee for sale of Hill Street premises in 1777 and their mortgagee in 1792. PA101/9/5-6,9.
Corporation Hill Street property mentioned, 1810. PA101/9/17-18.
Enfeoffment of property beyond Well Street Gate, 1724. PA101/9/40.
Corporation acquired Priory Mill fully, 1846. PA101/9/45.
Probated will of Samuel Vale of Coventry, alderman, appointing his watchmaking partner George Howlette, also an alderman, an executor, 1786: PA101/11/1.
Reference to Alderman Perkins' death and bequest, 1822-23. PA101/11/597,598.
John Whittem's purchase of property from corporation mentioned, 1863. PA101/12/42,46,49.
Sale-catalogue for Alderman J.B. Loudon's estate, 1915. PA101/12/210.
Benjamin Kerby, watchcase-maker, assured Sir Thomas White's Charity loan for his son Thomas Clarke Kerby, pre 1845. PA101/12/275.
John Mullis, alderman, sold Well Street tenement, 1803. PA101/12/521-523.
Corporation granted Dead Lane premises to a silkweaver, c.1718. PA101/33.
Fragmentary bond involving Town Clerk, mid seventeenth century. PA101/128.
Order to return distrained mare, 1655. PA101/129.
Receipt for rent due on "White Horse" inn, 1810. PA101/130.
Palsied man's petition, mid seventeenth century. PA101/132.
Criticism of state of corporation accounts, 1855. PA101/134.
Corporation close adjoining Barras Lane, 1854. PA101/135.
Coventry corporation charities proceedings, 1836-37. PA101/136/1-15.
Copy-schedule of corporation charities deede, 1882, and loan-bonds, 1881 - 1919. PA101/136/16.
Sir Thomas White's Loan Charity documents, 1760 - 1919. PA101/137/1-9.
Wheatley's Charity documents, tempore Richard II - 1690. PA101/138/1-25.
Wale's Charity documents, 1724 - 1826. PA101/139/1-7.
Jesson's Charity documents, 1620 - 1859. PA101/140/1-30.
Collins' Charity documents, 1697 - 1814. PA101/141/1-28.
Baron's Charity document, 1694. PA101/142/1.
Samuel Edwards' Charity documents, 1763 - 1814. PA101/143/1-42.
Saint Michael's Consolidated Charities, 1915. PA101/144.
Swillington's Charity documents, 1883-84. PA101/145/1-4.
Moore's Charity documents, 1853-59. PA101/146/1,2.
Bablake Hospital and School documents (including absorbed schools), 1635 - 1906. PA101/147/1-39.
Henry VIII Grammar School documents, 1761 - 1838. PA101/148/1,2.
Thomas Dakin, alderman, acted as Rebecca Shaw's trustee for mortgage, 1784. PA101/150/1.
Mortgages of Well Street premises for Sir Thomas White's Loan, 1742-51. PA202/1/39.IV,V.
Corporation owned a Much Park Street garden, 1802. PA202/9/1-2.
Mortgage of Much Park Street premises for Sir Thomas White's Loan, 1757. PA202/10/2-4.
Mortgage of Much Park Street and Far Gosford Street premises likewise, 1788. PA202/10/12.
Mortgage of Much Park Street premises likewise, 1765. PA202/10/13.
Corporation owned Much Park Street premises, 1761 - 1823. PA202/11/1-19 passim.
Corporation owned Conduit House, Spon Street, 1737-39. PA202/13/1-7.
Alderman John Clarke had occupied Earlsdon land which in 1809 was subject to fee-farm rent payment to corporation. PA202/27.I.
Abstract of title to Swift's Mill, 1711 - 1839. PA202/31.
Change of corporation title under 1835 Municipal Corporations Act mentioned, 1838. PA202/31.XLII.
Wheatley's Charity leases, 1755-96. PA202/33/1-3.
Sir Thomas White's Loan statute bond, 1735. PA202/34.
Alderman Stringer's papers, 1938-52. PA204.
Heads of proposal to form representation from Coventry council to municipal boundaries commissioners, c.1826. PA206/1/1.
Notee from speech about Municipal Boundaries Bill, c.1836. PA206/1/2.
List of mayors, 1350 - 1870. PA208/1.
Corporation lease of Spon Causeway cottages, 1682. PA208/4.
Accounts and expenses for corporation opposition to 1781 Coventry Elections Bill. PA208/9.
Town Clerk's endorsement of apprenticeship indenture's enrolment, 1816. PA210/1.
Mayor and bailiffs were among witnesses to grant of property in Coventry, Styvechale and Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, 1387. PA219/1.
Mid-ninteenth century copy of 1743 probated will of John Gulson, corporator. PA219/4/3.
"Coventry Herald and Free Press" cutting about [1890] city boundary extension, 1889. PA219/20/1.
Crow's Charity was serviced by land near Allesley, 1817. PA219/20/7.
Suggestion that William Robinson's Harnall Fields land belonged to Sir Thomas White's Charity before 1804: PA221/1/1-2.
Sheriffs' return to writ for delivery of seisin, 1827. PA221/2/9.
Statement of accounts for year ending 31 Aug 1841. PA224/2.
Coventry Sports and Social Association cheque to Mayor's Relief Fund, 1953. PA240/74/59-61.
"The Booke of the Actes of Leete" for 1588 - 1661. PA251/1.
Sixteenth-century copy of 1411 bounds of hamlets near Coventry. PA263/1.
Ward census, c.1523. PA263/2.
Declarations against Solemn League and Covenant, 1665 - 1711. PA263/3.
Account of civic payments to poor, 1580. PA263/10 fols.2-15.
Letter from Robert Baden Powell to Mayor of Coventry, 1910. PA273/1 fols.1,2.
Allesley apprenticeship indentures registered with Town Clerk, 1790 - 1821. PA295/48/76,111.
Town Clerk as Receiver-General for collection of land, of house, window and lights, and of Somerset House taxes, 1752-72. PA309/1-40.
Court of Common Pleas action between Samuel Davies and corporation, 1728. PA309/43.
Gaol turnovers, 1674 - 1720. PA309/45-47.
Edward Bibbins junior, alderman, shag-manufacturing partnership, under which the corporation would benefit, 1764. PA309/74.
Edward Owen's partnership with his son Abraham, 1692. PA309/83.
Marriage settlement for Edward Owen's namesake son, 1704. PA309/85.
Edward Owen's assignment to new feoffees of Priory estate, 1703. PA309/113-114.
Assignment of statute bond, 1704. PA309/116.
Corporation was enfeoffed with a Bishop Street garden, 1682. PA309/128.
Corporation feoffments for Smithford Street property, 1686 - 1704. PA309/130,131.
Corporation sale of timber in Birchley Hayes Wood, Fillongley parish, Warwickshire, 1704. PA309/132.
Corporation mortgage of Saint Michael's tithes, 1710. PA309/133.
Corporation bonds for distribution of Sir Thomas White's Loan money to Northampton, 1716-28: PA309/134,135.
Silkweaver's mortgage of Cow Lane messuage for Sir Thomas White's loan-money, 174-. PA309/137/1,2.
Sheriffs' account to Exchequer, 1738. PA309/174.
Corporation feoffments, etc. for "Three Swans" inn, Much Park Street, 1709-25. PA310/8-17.
Corporation feoffments, etc. for Gosford Street tenements, 1737-51. PA310/18-22.
Coventry City Guild used corporation buildings and liked mayor to preside at the Annual General Meetings, mid twentieth century: PA313/101-109.
Development Officer compiled register of active local organisations, 1946. PA313/241/1,2.
Correspondence about letters patent authorising title of Lord Mayor of Coventry, 1953. PA313/245/1,2.
Letter about sexcentennial celebrations exhibition, 1345. PA313/270.
Hastings and Saint Leonards Civic Society's interest in Organisation & Methods study of Coventry administration, 1954. PA313/333.
Planning & Redevelopment Committee and Coventry City Guild dealings over Priory Row, 1947. PA313/334/18-30 passim.
Estates & Parliamentary Committee concerned with Mill House, New Buildings, 1946. PA313/348/11.
Reference to "Coventry Evening Telegraph" report that corporation wanted to demolish Hales' Grammar School, 1952. PA313/349/3.
Estates & Parlamentary Committee was concerned about vandalism at Saints Christopher and James Chapel, Spon End, 1951-52: PA313/354/11-19 passim.
Estates & Parliamentary Committee favoured painting of Saint Mary's Hall roof-bosses, 1949-50. PA313/357/12-17 passim.
Effect of Sir Thomas White's Charity dispute over choice of mayor, c.1721. PA317/3.
Letters about electoral changes, 1769. PA317/5,6.
1779 schedule of corporation documents (1695 - 1731).PA3317/7.
Letters about Quo Warranto case, 1794-95. PA317/8-14.
Letter about [Town Court] records, 1840. PA317/16.
Antiquarian notes (c.1865) about officials and administration, late thirteenth century - early nineteenth century: PA317/21-25.
Case of Church Charities Trustees versus Coventry Corporation regarding Norton's and Jesson's Gifts, 1850. PA318.
Allotment by John Whitwell, alderman, of a deceased brickmaker's property, 1789. PA324/9.
Affidavit about the Cross being unsafe sworn before mayor, 1752. PA324/25.
Mayor organised subscriptions for present for Charles Dickens, 1857. PA324/30.
Land in West Orchard mentioned, 1623. PA326/1.
Land at Binley, 1687. PA327/3/1-3.
West Orchard land, 1521. PA331.
Joseph Paxton, Member of Parliament supported Godiva procession, 1862. PA335.
Director of Education was a patron of Guild of Freemen and Apprentices, 1940. PA340/14/4.
Photographs of mayor's institution, 1914. PA343/18/1-3.
Photographs of Coventry Peace Pageant, 1919. PA343/19.
Corporation patronised D.E. Collins & Co., winemerchants, 1955. PA344/180/7.
Ex-Holy Trinity Guild land beyond Gosford Gate, 1552-92. PA346/1-7.
Interest of Thomas Hopkyns, "common servant of the city", in tenement beyond Gosford Gate, c.1587. PA346/2.
Edward Bibbins junior and Thomas Nutt were aldermen acting as a carpenter's trustee for purchase of a Smithford Street house, 1763: PA346/37-38.
Thomas Dakin, alderman, occupied a West Orchard house, 1778. PA346/47-48.
Fee farm rent arising from ground between West Orchard and Smithford Street, 1778. PA346/47-48.
Corporation was the lessee of a Smithford Street messuage which became the Post and Inland Revenue Office, 1847ff. PA346/75,76,80/1.
Twentieth-century photocopies of fifteenth-century City Annals. PA351.
Concern about preserving city wall, 1933. PA353/9.
Town Clerk was asked for his view on School of Music's constitution, 1949. PA353/15/100.
Town Clerk acting as Land Registrar, 1943-48. PA353/18/43,82.
Successful protest against corporation plan to site police-station in Rochester Road, Earlsdon, 1931. PA353/2-/211-255.
K.L. Meats' dilemma about the police station because he was a former corporation employee, 1931. PA353/20/251.
Claim of herbage on Shortley manor land, 1736. PA362/1/2.
Regulations about dairies,etc., 1900. PA362/13.
Action over insanitary Leicester Causeway cottage, 1901. PA362/33/35-48.
Wish to have Northey Road, Foleshill land, 1901. PA362/36/12-19; PA3632/50/6.
Baths Committee vouchers, 1864-87: PA368/64/29; PA368/65/27; PA368/66/27; PA368/68/32; PA368/71/20; PA368/72/20; PA368/74/22; PA368/75/13; PA368/77/14-15; PA368/79/17; PA368/81/18; PA368/82/14; PA368/83/17; PA368/85-16-17; PA368/86/18.
Corporation enfeoffed Elizabeth Sharratt with house, early seventeenth century. PA371/4.
Will of Thomas Godfrey of Coventry, 1689. PA371/14.
Coventry Gas Co. articles of agreement, 1858. PA372/1.
Habeas corpus addressed to Coventry sheriffs, 1796. PA382/6.
Loyal address to Victoria, 1853. PA388/1.
C.1738 copy of 1581 survey book. PA389/1.
Corporation lease and sale of Burges messuage, 1702-20. PA391/1,2.
Nathaniel Lawton described in his will as an alderman, etc., 1758-79. PA391/4,8.
Likewise Thomas Oldham, 1779. PA391/8.
Duplicate specification for new municipal buildings, 1912. PA392.
Late-sixteenth century roll of mayoral names (1348 - 1594). PA393.
Corporation thanks to A.P. Pridmore for gift of public clock, 1916.
Compensation to a mercer for damaging his house, 1723. PA490/1.
Joseph Hewitt, Town Clerk, interested in Smithford Street premises, 1786-89. PA242/1/15-18.
Son of James Birch, Town Clerk, conveyed Smithford Street premises, 1791. PA242/1/22-23.
Alderman Edward Freeman occupied Smithford Street messuage, mid eighteenth century. PA242/1/22-23.
Fee-farm rent of "Turk's Head", Warwick Lane, 1791. PA242/1/22-23.
A Sir Thomas White's Charity trustees' 1727 loan recited, 1727. PA242/1/34.
Corporation interested in Gosford Park Estate, 1907. PA242/3/2.XVI.
Covenant to complete roads to corporation's satisfaction, 1908. PA242/3/3.
Coventry Education Committee had land near Ribble Road, Gosford Green, 1912. PA242/3/3.
Grant of right of way over land near Folly Lane; corporation to approve fence beside it, 1913. PA242/3/13.
Conveyance of Stoke Green tithe and rentcharge, 1854. PA242/3/14.V.
Freemen's trustees agreed to stipulation that they widen [Earlsdon Avenue South], 1909. PA2342/3/30.
Illuminated addresses which were presented to outgoing mayors, 1873, 1891. PA103/2,3.
Illuminated address which was presented to outgoing mayor, 1863. PA104.
Photocopy (1949) of 1660 Spon Street lease. PA108/1.
1734 Sir Thomas White's Loan mortgage recited in 1743 marriage-serttlement and used for further mortgages, 1744-70. PA115/6-12,19.
Will of Thomas Nutt, alderman, 1770. PA115/11.
Mayors and sheriffs listed in Worstead Weavers' Company Order Book, 1650-74. PA117/1.
Chamberlains' Account Book, 1823-29. PA117/2.
Guilds, Chantries, Charities and Tithe Rental, c.1750. PA118.
William Andrews' diary, 1892 - 1902. PA119/2.
C.1860 list of corporation papers about Saint Michael's and Holy Trinity churches (1629). PA122/5 fol.3.
Note about Coxon's Charity concerning the mayor, c.1830-50. PA122/5 fol.6 recto.
1826 notes and letter ahout Tallants' Will (1653) and Picken's Will (1613). PA122/5 fols.14-16.
Nomination of Stoke parishioners to attend mayor's parlour, in Stoke Vestry Book (1820-35). PA133/1.
Coroner's Minute book, 1728-52. PA136.
Mayor of Coventry acting as Chairman of the city's Plumbers, Painters and Glaziers, 1872-76. PA141/2.
Coventry corporation being assessed for Saint Michael's parish tithes, 1805-15. PA143/49.
Register of documents received by Town Clerk, 1752-65. PA145.
Mayor acting as escheator, 1489. PA149.
Interest in Shortley manor, 1586. PA149.
Reference to Statutes Merchant sworn before Mayors and Town Clerk in 1615-19. PA150.
Mayor received election-writ, 1866. PA158/4.
Alderman W.H. Grant, correspondence, etc., 1882 - 1931. PA159.
Garter King of Arms' letter about Coventry Great Seal, (1682), 1915. PA159/1/95.
References to Humphrey Burton (Town Clerk)'s heraldic arms, etc., 1915-16. PA159/1/114,214.
Housing Superintendent's appointment, 1916. PA161/2.
Loyal address to Princess of Wales, 1863. PA162/1.
Query about an attorney's being a corporation man, 1808. PA166/1 fols.15,16.
Report of meetings concerning information given to the public following air-raids, 1941. PA170/1.
Humphrey Burton's Corley, Warwickshire premises, 1624-33. PA171/1/1,2.
Feoffments, etc. for Sir Thomas White's Charity estate land near Coventry Canal, 1785 - 1844. PA171/8/1-5.
Conveyance of Smithford Street house to future corporator, 1704. PA181/1.
Statute bond, 1615. PA185/4.
Transcripts of proceedings and part of judgerment in Lythall's Case, 1840-42. PA186.
View, and terms of lease, of Cheylesmore House, 1707. PA192/1 fol.2.
Lord Archer's letter recommending parliamentary candidate, 1747. PA192/1 fols.6,7.
Photograph and newspaper cutting about W.H. Masters' donation of PA139 and PA142 to mayor, 1951. PA195.
Corporation manauscripts, notes in mewspaper, 1870. PA919/36/42,43.
Ford's Hospital agreement, 1528. PA9/1.
Swillington's Charity foundation-deed (1553), which involves the current recorder and relates to the will of a former one's widow. PA20.
Letters during Richard Caldicott's mayoralty, 1846-48. PA402/3.
Mayor's diary, 1945-46. PA410.
Testator's provision that legacies be lodged with corporation on behalf of minors, and bequest of house, 1569. PA441/1.
Report of Labour Group into Stoke Guildhouse, 1953. PA445/1.
Corporation lease of Dives, Kinwalsey, Hampton-in-Arden parish, Warwickshire land, 1578. PA521/1.
Corporation owned property bounding the Vales' Well Street messuage. 1637. PA152/2.
Samuel Snell owned three Broadgate messuages, including the "Three Tuns" inn, mid seventeenth century: PA152/8.
Ralph Bowne, alderman, owned West Orchard property late sixteenth century. PA152/9.
Corporation rented out (1647), and later (1660) sold, Cross Cheaping tenement, PA152/12/1,2.
Corporation let a Butcher Row tenement, acting as administrator of Bablake Boys' Charity, 1830. PA152/15/1.
Christopher Warren (senior), alderman, gave Earl Street and Mill Lane property to his son, 1562. PA152/25.
Corporation property bordered John Whitehead's messuage and orchard, :Little Park Street, 1588.PA152/27/1.
Corporation owned a Mill Lane garden, circa late seventeenth century. PA152/67.
William Jesson, alderman, bought Charterhouse Mill, 1634. PA152/37/6.
John Whitwell and James Soden, aldermen, were Holy Trinity overseers, 1785. PA173/30,
Transcription of translation of 1663 charter, late seventeenth century. PA2/1 folos.5-10 (fols. "1"-"6").
Clause extracted from 1685 charter, late seventeenth century. PA2/1 fol.11 recto (fol. "7").
Translation of Black Prince's 1375 grant regarding Cheylesmore manor officers' transgression of their limits, late seventeenth century. PA2/1 fols.12, 13 recto (fols."8", "9" recto).
1615 herbage book transcript, late seventeenth century. 2/1 fols.25 verso - 31 recto (fols."21" verso - "27" recto).
List of feoffees and types of wardens' land, late seventeenth century. PA2/1 fol.36 recto.
List of charges upon classes of corporation land, late seventeenth century. PA2/1 fol.36 verso.
Guklds and Chantries, etc. rental with annual payments, 1684. PA2/1 fols.40 recto - 44 recto (fols."34" recto - "38" recto).
Wardens' rental, 1685. PA2/1 fols.47 reecto - 48 verso (fols."41" recto - "42" verso).
List of payments which wardens had to make, late seventeenth century. PA2/1 fol.49 recto (fol. 43" recto).
Treasurers' receipts and payments, 1640-94. 2/1 fols.71 verso - 94 verso (fols."63" verso - "72" verso).
Expenditure upon James II's visit, 1687. PA2/1 fol.102 recto (i).
Expenditure regarding mayor's 1691 selection, 1692. PA2/1 fols.102 recto (ii), 104.
Fines received for refusing corporation office, 1656 - 1704. PA2/1 fol.103 recto.
Burgesses' fines, 1642-90. PA2/1 fols. 103 verso - 104 recto.
Translations of 1551 charter, mid-late seventeenth century. PA2/2 fols.1-32; PA2/3 pp.1-23.
Bounds between Coventry county and Warwickshire, mid-late seventeenth century. PA2/2 fols.34-37; PA2/3 pp.25,26.
Coventry bounds into which Cheylesmore manor officials should not intrude, mid-late seventeenth century. PA2/2 fol.38; PA2/3 p.27.
Guilds & Chantries and Wardens' Rental, c.1560. :PA7/1.
Bakers' Company ordinances. seventeenth century. PA8/1 fols.3 verso - 17 recto.
Ford's Hospital agreement, 1528. PA9/1.
1657 probate copy of the 1657 will of Thomas Lane of Coventry. PA9./3.
Pardon of ex-mayor for having taken oath of office irregularly, 1387. PA13/1.
Claim to Fletchamstead fee-farm qua Bablake School governors, 1596-98. PA14/1/17.
Dispute with Prince of Wales over Cheylesmore manor, 1619-20. PA14/1/20-23.
Extracts from 1451 and 1621 charters, c.1840. PA14/1/40.
Muddle over former Town Clerk's payments, 1830-34. PA14/5/17-30,54; PA17/6/69.
Thomas Banbury's refusal to serve as a chamberlain, 1834. PA14/5/60,61; PA14/6/11,191-193; PA14/7/6.
Boundary Commissioners' interest in Coventry, 1835. PA14/5/67,70.
Correspondence about Municipal Corporations Bill, 1835. PA14/5/71,72.
Correspondence about Municipal Corporations Amendment Bill, 1836. :PA14/5/77,79,81.
Definition of mayor's Quarter Sessions role, 1836. PA14/5/83.
Unreformed corporation magistrates' attending new corporation's Quarter Sessions, 1836. PA14/5/84.
"Coventry Herald" report about former Town Ckerk's supposed breach of faith, 1838. PA14/6/4,5.
Steward's interest in his salary and municipal boundary, 1835. PA14/6/7.
Municipal Corporation Commissioners' views, 1834. PA14/6/49.
Reference to Earl of Denbigh's conveyance, 1832. PA14/6/102.
Joseph Howe's declining to become an alderman, 1836. PA14/6/112.
Cleophas Ratliff was elected sheriff, 1836. PA14/6/156.
Sending out of choice-feast invitations, 1817. PA14/6/183.
Banker's attempt to become recorder, 1825. PA14/7/3.
Watch Committee notice, 1840. PA14/7/11.
Band provided for mayor-making, 1826. PA14/7/14.
Council meeting notice, 1838. PA14/8/26.
Bill for sheriffs' wands, 1820. PA14/8/30.
Salary-payment order, 1822. PA14/8/33.
Corporators' overdue tithes, 1851. PA14/8/51.
Institution of Market Tolls Committee, 1836. PA14/8/53.
Gaoler's appointment, 1820. PA14/8/54.
Reminiscences about early-nineteenth century chamberlainship, 1883. PA14/9/8.
Citation of charters (eleventh century to 1663) about city and corporation, 1821. PA14/10/106.
Writ against corporator, 1728. PA14/15/5.
Translation of 1345 incorporation charter, c.1840. PA21/1/12.
Translation of 1345 licence to demise Queen Mother's privileges to corporation, c.1840. PA21/1/15.
Translation of 1378 inspeximus, c.1840. PA21/1/16.
Translation of 1348 grant, c.1840. PA21/1/17.
Translation of 1399 grant, c.1840. PA21/1/18.
Translation of 1445 grant, c.1840. PA21/1/19.
Translation of 1451 creation of county of city of Coventry, c.1840. PA21/1/20.
Translation of 1621 governing charter, c.1840. PA21/1/22.
Translation of 1355 tripartite indenture, c.1840. PA21/1/29.
List of mayors (1586 - 1863), PA21/2/2.
List of bailiffs (1384 - 1502). PA21/2/4.
Leet Book extracts (1421 - 1687), c.1840. PA21/2/5-16 passim.
Leases of Ernes Place and Hawkesbury Farm mining-rights, 1591 - 1813. PA21/2/46,47.
Continuation of Quarter Sessions following Municipal Corporations Act (1835), 1836. PA21/2/50.
Warding of the city, 1835. PA21/2/53,54.
Lythall's Case working papers, c.1840. PA21/2/56-63 passim.
Deeds-register, late seventeenth century. PA22/3.
Council minute about suspenxion of corporator, 1617. PA22/4/1.
Corporation deposition against reinstatement of former corporator, 1660-61. PA22/4/2.
Dispute about workings of grand enquest, c.1696-98. PA22/4/3-5.
Dispute about choice of mayor, 1711. PA22/4/6-9.
Steward's oath, late seventeenth century. PA22/4/10.
Translation of 1621 charter provisions about common council of 25, early seventeenth century. PA22/4/1.
Copy mandamus about appointment of mayor, recorder and aldermen as Justices of the Peace, early seventeenth century: PA22/4/12.
Abstract of accounts, 1860-66. PA22/7.
Corporation case about direct election of charter officers, 1777. PA22/8/3.
Dispute about choice of Charles Radford as possible sheriff, 1792. PA22/8/4.
Dispute about choice of Thomas Mason, Edward Soden and Richard Hands as corporators, 1792-95. PA22/8/5-7.
Corporation case about libellous poem against ex-mayor, 1811. PA22/8/8.
Register of documents transferred by outgoing Town Clerk to successor, 1779-92. PA22/9.
Oaths (fifteenth century to eighteenth century) in Trinity Guild Register, PA18/1.
Wardens' account books, 1704-11 passim. PA17/1.
Plate-inventory, 1703. PA17/4.
Tithe-dispute with Peter Cotty and Henry Bancks (Whitmore Grange), late sixteenth century. PA17/6.
Tithe-dispute with John Piggott (Holy Trinity parish), 1588. PA17/5.
Tithe-dispute with William Hyndeman and Edward Gravenor (Whitmore Grange), late sixteenth century. PA17/7.
Tithe-dispute with Robinson et al (Holy Trinity and Saint Michael's parishes), c.1796. PA17/8.
Tithe-dispsute with Reverend William Panting, 1636ff. PA17/9.
Tithe-dispute with Baldwin Hill (Saint Michael's parish, Asthil, Horwell, Styvechale), 1591. PA17/10.
Tithe lawsuit fragment, late sixteenth century. PA17/11.
Tithe assessment, 1616. PA17/12.
Tithe-dispute with Lord Berkeley (Caloudon), late sixteenth century. PA17/13.
Tripartite indenture cited by Priory, c.1400. PA17/8.
Aldermans notice about abuse of freemen's rights, 1759. PA17/28/1.
Sir Thomas White helped to buy dissolved chantries' lands tempore Reformation, PA17/29/1.
Charitable bequest dependant upon mayor's leasing land to the benefactor's brother, 1595. PA17/31/1.
Sir Thomas White's Charity documents, 1560 - 1831. PA17/29.
Bond's Hospsital documents, c.1552 - 1841. PA17/30.
Saunders' Gift documents, early seventeenth century. PA17/31.
Wheatley's Loan documents, 1791-94. PA17/32.
Ford's Hospital documents, 1550ff. PA17/33.
Freeschool documents, 1628 - 1838. PA17/34.
West Orchard messuages, 1628. PA17/34/1.
Aldermen's administration of bread doles, 1765-80. PA17/36/1-10.
Town Clerk's salary-receipt under Jesson's Charity, 1778. PA17/36/11.
List of charter officers, 1749. PA17/55.
Statute merchant bond, 1572. PA17/52.
Municipal reform correspondence, 1835-36. PA17/61/1.
City boundary, 1835-40. PA17/61/2.
County abolition proceedings, 1842. PA17/61/3.
Exclusion from council, 1617. PA17/62.
Joseph Eburne's disputed mayoralty, 1711. PA17/63.
Recorder's dispute with Bristow family et al, 1474-83. PA17/65/1.
Cheylesmore manor documents, late sixteenth century to early eighteenth century. PA17/66.
Pinley manor documents, 1452 - 1675. PA17/67.
Purchase of messuage in Temple Balsall manor, Warwickshire, 1675. PA17/69.
Mayoral diary, 1655-56. PA17/71/1.
Valuation of Foleshill land, 1687. PA17/71/3.
Invitation to Lammas-riding, 1789 PA17/71/6.
Contribution towards repair of Barnacle Lane, 1652 PA17/73.
Revenue and expenditure estimate, 1759-60. PA17/74.
Trade war with Holy Roman Empire, 1727. PA17/75.
Involvement in 1832 general, and 1833 bye-, elections. 17/76.
Town Clerk was enabled to hold manorial courts, 1760. PA17/77.
Watch and ward bill, 1642. PA17/78/1.
Parish constables' accounts and vouchers, 1706 - 1823. PA17/78/2-4.
Indemnity bonds for paupers, 1670-75. PA17/79/2,44-6.
Appeal against poor rate, 1804. PA17/81/1.
Corporation bonds for personal loans, 1655 - 1735. PA17/84-88.
Corporation acquittances for money held on behalf of minors, 1639-95. PA17/89,90.
Historical notes, 1840. PA17/101.
John Downing's commonplace book, late eighteenth century, PA17/105.
Abhorrence of Anthony Ashmore, 1640. PA17/115/1.
Smithford Street messuage (1652) conveyed to alderman, PA17/116.
Copy (1698) of Burton's Book (c.1635) regarding Cheylesmore manor. PA16/1 fols.1-139.
Copy (c.1700) of summary (1700) before interim judgement in Sir Thomas White's Charity lawsuit. PA16/1 fols.140-151.
Tithe agreement with Bartholomew Tate, 1595. PA16/2 fols.53 recto, 99 recto - 102 recto (fols."68" - "70" + 1).
Copy of 1551 charter, late seventeenth century. PA16/2 fols.78 verso - 81 recto (fol."58").
Qua mayor, John Gulson was a trustee of Warwickshire Reformatory Inxtitution (for Girls), Little Park Street, 1869. PA23/5.
Town Clerk's dealings with Irby-Hopkins estate, 1872-90. PA279/19/66; PA279/44/358, 720, 841, 877, 1146, 1599, 1635, 1782, 1785, 1795, 1895, 2432, 2443, 2492, 2494, 2505, 2516, 2551, 2649, 2696, 2699, 2710, 2855, 2857, 3107, 3137, 3796, 3811, 3817, 3831, 3931, 3935, 4002, 4007, 4011, 4636, 4703, 4739, 4762.
George Loveitt's collection of Irby-Hopkins estate Coventry tithe rentcharge, 1880 - 1907. PA279/18/103; PA279/19/113; PA279/20/45; PA279/21/52; PA279/22/42; PA279/23/59; PA279/24/48,49; PA279/25/71; PA279/26/75; PA279/27/44; PA279/28/82; PA279/29/57; PA279/44/1206, 1564, 1568, 1889, 2309, 2524, 2527, 3208, 3209, 5365, 5379, 5636, 5637, 5932, 6164, 6174, 6660, 6673, 6855, 7412, 8331, 8878, 8880, 8900, 8919.
Bye-laws, 1859. PA279/7/3.
E.J. Purnell, City Surveyor's oversight of Bishopgate Green development, 1875-98. PA279/10/455; PA279/18/25; PA279/44/688, 7652, 841, 1795, 2005, 2015, 2505, 2662, 2855, 3232, 3258, 3320, 3323, 3341, 3346, 3368, 3391, 3405, 3409, 3419, 3432, 3435, 3462, 3472, 3517, 3550, 3552, 3634, 3636, 3692, 3698, 3720, 3801, 3907, 3915, 3929, 4004, 4076, 4090, 4097, 4153, 4188, 4189, 4250, 4357, 4556, 4560, 4581, 4582, 4647, 4660, 46666, 4719, 4726, 4757, 4864, 4963, 4978, 4985, 4992, 5002, 5147, 5240, 5387, 5999, 5305, 5333, 5336, 5437, 5441, 5481, 5482, 5683, 5712, 5844, 5848, 5853, 5873, 5874, 5967, 5970, 5977, 6016, 6026, 6046, 6047, 6050, 6057, 6061, 6065, 6076, 6089, 6121, 6213, 6232, 6252-6260, 6264, 6286, 6292, 6342, 6316, 6389, 6395, 6410, 6412, 6418, 6450, 6453, 6488, 6503, 6531, 6553, 6557, 6583, 6599, 6708, 6711-6713, 6715, 6856, 6892, 6893, 6958.
Notice about making up Holmsdale Road, Great Heath, 1906. PA279/10/770.
Interest in London & North-Western Railway loop line, 1908-12. PA279/10/888; PA279/44/10280, 10295, 10301, 10304, 10308, 10319, 10348, 10359, 10361, 10376, 10389, 10397, 10449, 10885, 10891.
Street-construction bye-laws, 1911. PA279/10/1040.
Tar, 1888-89. PA279/18/35; PA279/19/39.
Treasurer's bill, 1888. PA279/19/118.
Street-making, 1907-08. PA279/29/112,113; PA279/30/135,136.
Coventry Corporation Irby-Hopkins estate tithe rentcharge, 1908-22. PA279/30/58; PA279/31/55; PA279/32/45; PA279/33/52; PA279/34/54,55; PA279/35/62,63; PA279/36/42; PA279/37/54; PA279/38/44; PA279/39/40; PA279/40/43; PA279/44/9722, 10661, 10675, 10710, 11198, 11230.
Coventry corporation Irby-Hopkins estate tithe rentcharge collection, 1868-77. PA279/44/29,31,97,100,237,238,339,480,482,590,840.
Mayor signing himself as such in a private transaction, 1871. PA279/44/275.
City chamberlains in charge of commons and wastes, 1762. PA279/44/358.
Improvement of building land to satisfy corporation a deterrent to builders, 1884. PA279/44/2564.
Harnall Lane land ceded to corporation for housing, 1885. PA279/44/2603.
Policy in taking over private streets, 1887-89. PA279/44/3341,4163,4189.
Corporation rubbish on brickworks site, 1890. PA279/44/4640.
Bye-laws forcing builders to move into Foleshill Rural District Council area, 1891. PA279/44/5102.
Involvement with Springfields footpath diversion, 1891-95. PA279/44/5127, 5131, 5298, 5299, 5306, 5308, 5311, 5315, 5317, 5346, 5357, 5369, 5377, 5385, 5414, 5437, 5631, 6158.
Concern about Stoney Stanton Road paving, 1891. PA279/44/5240,5260,5437,5758.
Swindling councillor sentenced to hard labour, 1893. PA279/44/5759.
Bye-laws necessitating manhole, 1893. PA279/44/5843.
Realignment of building plots stipulated, 1893. PA279/44/5853.
Bye-law's forbidding stable near house, 1893. PA279/44/5867.
Involvement in Gosford Green development, 1895 - 1911. PA279/44/5975, 5977, 6055, 6058, 7184, 7212, 7279, 7292, 7326, 7384, 7409, 7468, 7495, 7645, 8235, 8465,8612, 8618, 8619, 8638, 8641, 8652, 8668, 8669, 8681, 8763, 8769, 8788, 8793, 88910, 8845, 8858, 9020, 9030, 9038, 9041, 9090, 9094, 9154, 10358, 10366, 10418, 10439, 10514.
Testimonial for a surveyor, 1898. PA279/44/6999.
General Works Committee's involvement in Leicester Causeway development, 1898 - 1906. PA279/44/7006, 7068, 7073, 7078, 7081, 7094, 7099, 7100, 7104, 7105, 7214, 7229, 7263, 7283, 7303, 7586, 7587, 7862, 7879, 7998, 8021, 8071, 8966, 9253, 9274.
Threat to send sewage on to Aldermans Green land, 1899. PA279/44/7281,7288,7300.
Corporation employees' dilatoriness, 1899. PA279/44/7292.
Henry Webster, brick-manufacturer, on the council, 1899 - 1901. P279/44/7356.
Wish to name road after Honourable C.S. Irby, 1900. PA279/44/7427,7428,7432.
Little Heath sewering, 1900. PA279/44/7645,7649.
Pinley sewering, 1900. PA279/44/7645.
Council rejected mame of "Gladys Road" for Holmsdale Road, Great Heath, 1901. PA279/44/7725.
Taking-over of Webster Street, Great Heath, 1902-06. PA279/44/7747,8961.
Road-making covenant correspondence, 1902. PA279/44/7808,7828,7834.
Involvement with Holmsdale Road, Great Heath, 1902-06. PA279/44/7835,8065,8966,9000,9006,9075.
Bye-law about street-intersections cited, 1903. PA279/44/8049.
[Far Gosford Street improvement,] 1903. PA279/44/8358.
Mayor interested in railway-development in Coventry, 1904. PA279/44/8412.
Foleshill Road improvement, 1904. PA279/44/8533.8577.
Northey Road's flagging and takeover, 1904-06. PA279/44/8568,8901,8914,8936,8945,8953,8966,8967,8973,8977,8998,9000,9022,9139.
Dealings of George Sutton, Town Clerk, with Irby-Hopkins estate,1904-11. PA279/44/8577, 8641, 8652, 8668, 8669, 8675, 8763, 8769, 8788, 8845, 8858, 8953, 9020, 9025, 9038, 9041, 9090, 9094, 10304, 10308, 10319, 10348, 10358, 10359, 10361, 10366, 10376, 10389, 10514.
Narrow Lane, Kingfields improvement, 1904-12. PA279/44/8579,8594,9820,9826,9940,9945,9949,10781,10788,10806,10912,10921.
Foleshill Sewage Scheme, 1905. PA279/44/8651,8656,8772,8777,8813.
Stoke Sewage Scheme, 1905. PA279/44/8668.
Owned Market Street shops, 1905. PA279/44/8692.
"Bird Grove", Bishopgate Green boundary ill-defined, 1906. PA279/44/9057,9069,9075,9082.
Complaint by Coventry corporation to Foleshill Rural District Council about cowsheds, 1910. PA279/44/10055,10060.
Wish for electricity sub-station beside Foleshill Railway, 1913. PA279/44/11322,11324,11340.
Approved siding from Ordnance Works to London & North-Western Railway loop line, 1915. PA279/44/12075.
Encouraged development of allotments for war effort, 1917. PA279/44/12271,12275.
Councillor J. Grant's assistance invoked, 1918. PA279/44/12401.
Land needed behind houses to comply with drainage bye-laws, 1918. PA279/44/12467,12472,12495.
Alderman John Whitwell's Greyfriars' Lane property, late eighteenth century. PA138/5.
Alderman Richard Clements occupied a Jordan Well house, early eighteenth century. PA184/1/1-2.
Alderman William Jeliffe's Coventry, Allesley, Coundon and Brownshill Green land, 1656. PA212/1,3.
Burton family of Town Clerks had Coundon and Keresley land, 1656 - 1709. PA212 passim.
Alderman acting as mortgage-assignee for Gosford Street house, 1731-40. PA214/1/8.
John Fox' West Orchard house, 1733. PA214/1/15.
Hay Lane house, 1654. PA214/1/33.
Spon Causeway house and Butts close, 1676. PA214/1/34.
Spon Causeway cottages, 1682. PA214/1/35.
Lease of Broad Oaks, Red Lane tithe, 1677. PA214/1/36.
Saint John's Bridge house, 1720. PA214/1/37.
Thomas Gravenor's Cross Cheaping cottage, 1608. PA214/1/42.
Three aldermen also acting as Holy Trinity feoffees, 1658. PA214/1/44.
Matthew Goodall was a fellow-alderman's widow's trustee for land of interest to Jonah Crynes' family, 1706-23. PA214/1/46,47.
Alderman Henry Sewall's Smithford Street house, early seventeenth century. PA214/1/67.
Alderman Jonathan Daniell's High Street house, 1695 - 1802. PA214/1/69.
Opposition to canal-cut between Budbrooke, Warwickshire and Braunston, Northamptonshire, c.1793. PA214/7/2.
Rentcharge upon a High Street house, 1658, in aid of Bond's Hospital. PA214/1/68.
Town Clerk's letter about loan to Bedworth mining contractor, 1882. PA215/5.
Lighting Orders, 1916. PA215/10/5,6.
Liable for costs incurred by special constables during civil unrest, 1921. PA215/10/18.
Mayor presented long-service medal to special constables, 1921. PA215/10/19.
Sketch of seal, early twentieth century. PA231/2.
Lythall's Case deeds-list, 1840. PA238/4.
Mayor's exchanging seal-impressions with the mayor of Beccles, Suffolk, 1851. PA239/1 fol.3.
Town Clerk's papers, 1661 - 1761, especially 1734-41. PA248.
Lythall's Case index, c.1842. PA252.
Lease of The Queen's College, Oxford Keresley land to Alderman John Clarke, 1649. PA254/6.
Bishop Street messuage, 1651. PA244/1.
Little Park Street messuages, 1598 - 1609. PA244/2,3.
Much Park Street messuages, 1563 - 1730. PA244/4-16.
Pew-rents orders, 1668-76. PA244/17/1,2.
Robert Bedford and William Jeliffe, aldermen, acting as Weavers' Company feoffees, 1659-60. :PA244/30/10.I,II.
Edward Brownell, alderman, was a petitioner for an increase in Holy Trinity vicar's stipend, 10 Elizabeth I. PA244/37/5.
Little Park Street and Hill Street messuages, 1598. PA244/37/11,12.
Abstract from 1615 will of William Wheate, alderman, c.1738. PA244/45/1.
Offer to share brace of bucks with justices on assize, 1738. PA244/48/10.
Petitions about maintaining Quarter Sessions and assize jurisdictions, 1836-39. PA244/58,59.
Coventry County Abolition Act, 1842. PA244/60.
Letters of thanks from royalty to Coventry corporation for marital congratulations, 1839-59. PA244/61/1-3.
Claimed Whitmore Park tithes, 1812-13. PA257/5/1,2,4,5.
Obituary of Alderman Doctor Thomas Webb Fowler [,1922]. PA258/3.
Freedom of entry bestowed upon 605 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, 1952. PA265/1.
Hugh Harvey was a Cappers' Company member, 1564. PA266/3.
Appeal to mayor for magistrates' help [,1835]. PA269.
Fee farm rent acquittance, 1750. PA275.
Earl Street tenement, 1590, PA286/6.
Alderman Julius Billers occupied Cross Cheaping land, mid seventeenth century. PA288/1.
Earlsdon land, 1728. PA288/1.
Alderman John Snell occupied Earlsdon land, late seventeentth century. PA288/1.
Alderman Joseph Eburn occupied Earlsdon land, 1729. PA288/1.
Alderman Matthew Goodall's Jeffrey Woods Cross land, early eighteenth century. PA288/1.
Cheylesmore manor fee farm, 1675 - 1737. PA289/1/1-4.
Mayor acting as returning officer, 1865. PA290.
Town Clerk enrolled George Thorpe's apprenticeship indenture, 1853. PA291/1.
Town Clerk enrolled William Hill's apprenticeship indenture, 1830. PA299.
Borough archive (general), 1182 - 1835/1974ff. BA.
Estate records. BA/A.
Ecclesiastical records. BA/B.
Commercial and Freemanship records. BA/C.
Charity records. BA/D.
Judicial records. BA/E.
Powers and cases. BA/F.
Manorial records. BA/G.
Administrative records. BA/H.
Rentals ledgers, 1747 - 1855. BA/A/A/13/1,2.
Mayoral duties, 1641. in BA/A/A/9/1.
Debts Book, 1574 - 1619. BA/A/A/17/1.
Aldermen as mortgagess of Bayley Lane messuages as sureties for Sir Thomas White's Charity loans, 1711-35. BA/A/B/2/9,12.
Lease to the recorder, 1550. BA/A/B/40/2.
Signature qua mayor by one who did not so serve, 1776. BA/A/D/84/1.
Leasehold premises following tenant's bankruptcy, 1847. BA/A/D/97/1,2.
Vouchers for regalia, seventeenth century. BA/A/F/3/1-10.
Rentcharge granted to Saint John's College, Oxford, 1560. BA/A/G/2/9.
Mortgage from R.H. Goode et al, 1838. BA/A/G/2/14.
Property mortgaged to secure Sir Thomas White's Charity loan insured in trust for aldermen, 1810. BA/A/G/10/5.
City treasurer's wife a mortgage-assignee, 1906. BA/A/G/21/15.
Burges fee farm, 1859. BA/A/G/25/1.
Serjeant-at-mace held Cross Cheaping ground, 1718. BA/A/G/26/20.
Building-lease, West Orchard (1804) recited, 1807. BA/A/G/26/67.
Purchase of Bastille Mill for demolition, 1847. BA/A/G/34/1.
Corporation privileges under Tripartite Indenture to be safeguarded, mid fourteenth century. BA/B/A/1/1.
Document (1364) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/5/2.
Document (1350) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/6/1.
Document (1437) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/18/1.
Document (1364) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/19/2.
Document (1369) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/22/3.
Spon Street tenement, 1552. BA/B/A/39/2.
Thomas Gregory, clerk of the council, had Spon Street property, mid sixteenth century. BA/B/A/39/2.
Document (1351) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/50/7.
Document (1307) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/51/7.
Document (1362) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/53/4.
Document (1367) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/61/2.
Document (1365) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/68/4.
Document (1374) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/68/6.
Document (1366) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/78/31.
Document (1374) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/78/32.
Lease by Priory to corporation of Shortley land, 1488. BA/B/A/86/1.
Document (1392) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/99/12.
Document (1356) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/107/13.
Document (1364) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/107/14.
Document (1411) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/108/3.
Document (1417) shown to Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1622. BA/B/A/108/5,6.
Herbage-rise, 1677. BA/B/F/39/3.
Documents (1468-76) shown to Deputy Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1664. BA/B/P/14/43-45.
Grant in fee to Thomas Dakin, alderman, 1782. BA/B/P/57/4.
Simon Birches, Twn Clerk, was an attorney to deliver seisin, 1449. BA/B/P/99/3.
Use of corporation seal on private deed noted, 1422. BA/B/P/107/6.
Deed (1446) shown to Deputy Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1664. BA/B/P/148/7.
Simon Birches, Town Clerk acting as an attorney to deliver seisin, 1446. BA/B/P/148/8,10.
Deeds (1446-61) shown to Deputy Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1664. BA/B/P/148/9-12.
Mayor and certain aldermen were responsible for waterworks, 1540. BA/B/P/244/2.
Surrender of fee farms to Crown, 1660. BA/B/P/300/3.
Henry Boteler, recorder, had a Little Park Street messuage, 1512. BA/B/P/308/1.
Deed (1377) shown to Deputy Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1664. BA/B/P/320/4.
Deed (1450) shown to Deputy Town Clerk respecting corporation powers, 1664. BA/B/P/320/10.
Record of leet benefiting recorder, 1449. BA/B/P/463/1.
Corporation to administer an obit if a guild default, 1520. BA/B/Q/19/4.
Butchers' Company sheep-pasturing petitions, mid seventeenth century. BA/C/D/1/1,2.
Court Leet ordered carvers to join Carpenters' Company, 1495. BA/C/F/7/2.
Corporation to maintain part of Skinners' Company estate, 1564. BA/C/L/1/4.
Freemen wanting to use chamberlains' money, 1836. BA/C/R/2.
Chamberlains' Account Book for penning cattle, 1831-34. BA/C/R/4/1.
Sir Thomas White's Charity lawsuit regarding recordership, c.1760. BA/D/A/4.
In debt, 1683. BA/D/A/19/9.
A sheriff's seal used on corporation deed, 1574. BA/D/A/40/6.
Swordbearer held Spon End land, 1626. BA/D/A/49/38.
Edward Saunders, recorder, was a Bond's Hospital feoffee, 1552, BA/D/D/26/3.
Lord Archer, recorder, was a supplementary defendant over a Bond's Hospital lawsuit, 1760. BA/D/D/29/1.
Wardens as attorneys to deliver seisin, 1582. BA/D/AH/1/2.
Coroner to receive rents feom deceased tenant's executors, 1645. BA/D/AN/5/4.
Recorder involved in institution of Swillington's Charity, 1553. BA/D/BE/9/7.
Gaolkeeper's petition, c.1700. BA/E/B/111/1.
Borough archive, coroner's fonds, 1746 - 1824. BA/E/D.
Borough archive, sheriffs' fonds, 1379 - 1832 BA/E/E.
Undersheriff's precedent book, early nineteenth century. BA/E/E/32/1.
Borough archive Court Leet fonds, 1413 - 1834. BA/E/F.
Steward's election, 1834. BA/E/F/4/1.
G.W. Weare declined chamberlainship [,1828]. BA/E/F/5/1.
Oaths of corporator and officers [,1695 -] early nineteenth century. BA/E/F/10-25.
Borough archive Bishop Street Court Leet fonds, 1640 - 1805. BA/E/G.
Borough archive Clerk of the Market fonds, 1500 - 1758. BA/E/H.
High Constable's duties, c.1823. BA/E/F/9/1.
Borough archive Court of Orphans fonds, 1576 - 1686. BA/E/I.
Borough archive County Court fonds, 1689 - 1821. BA/E/J.
Borough archive Town Court fonds, 1382 - 1835. BA/E/K.
Court of Piepowder, early eighteenth century. 22 items in BA/E/K/13/1-971.
Court of Piepowder, early eighteenth century. 4 items in BA/E/K/110/1-269.
Court of Piepowder, early eighteenth century. 1 item in BA/E/K/110/270-288.
Obtaining of James I governing charter (1621). BA/F/A.
Lythall's Case about demise of Coventry county, 1839-42. BA/F/B.
High Constable was involved with rate-withholding, 1838. in BA/F/B/47/1-7; BA/F/B/51/6-8.
Rex versus Banbury, solicitor's bill, 1835. BA/F/B/43/1.
List of documents used in lawsuits (1590 - 1620) about Tripartitie Indenture, c.1839. BA/F/B/76/1.
Coventry County Abolition Act, 1842. in BA/F/B/161/1.
Sequestration, 1699 - 1731. BA/F/C.
Bennett & Palmer case, 1696-98. BA/F/D.
Rex versus Eburne et al, 1711-12. BA/F/E.
Burgh & Adams, 1777. BA/F/F.
Mason et al, 1792-94. BA/F/G.
Steward involved in case about charter offiers, 1792. BA/F/G/13/1-4.
Town Clerk secreted corporation books, c.1700. BA/F/H/1/1.
Differences with corporation servant George Palmer, 1580-82. BA/F/I.
Sheriffs put a widow in possession of her husband's lands [,1454]. BA/F/J/1/1.
Interest in Whitley Common, 1487. BA/F/J/4/3.
Rex versus Banbury, 1835. BA/F/K.
"Foundation charter", 1345. BA/G/A/3/1.
Confirmation of foundation charter, 1345. BA/G/A/3/2,3.
John Delves, coroner, enjoyed Stoke manorial profits, early fifteenth century. BA/G/F/28/10.
Constitutional charters, 1182 - 1974. BA/H/A.
Constitutional notes, mid seventeenth century - post 1791. BA/H/C/3/1,2.
Declarations against Solemn League & Covenant, 1692. in BA/H/C/4/1; and BA/H/C/4/2,3.
Subscription-rolls for oaths of allegiance and supremacy, 1766-91. BA/E/B/73/1.
Subscription-roll for Thirty-Nine Articles, 1730-80. BA/E/B/74/1.
Wardens' bond, 1647. BA/H/C/8/1.
Lord Mayor's status, 1953-74. BA/H/C/14/1,2.
List of corporators et al, 1828. BA/H/C/15/1.
Corporators' attendance-list, 1793. BA/H/C/16/1.
Minute Books, 3 & 4 Philip & Mary I - 1835. BA/H/C/17.
Minute Books' index, 1752-80. BA/H/C/18/1.
Finance Committee Minute Book, 1833-35. BA/H/C/19/1.
Financial books and accounts, 1561 - 1832. BA/H/C/20-26.
Borough archive Town Clerk's fonds, 1616 - 1832. BA/H/G/1-11.
Wardens had a Dead Lane tenement, 1461. BA/H/H/41/1(c).
Had Much Park Street/Earl Street property, 1440. BA/H/H/249/1(a)(i).
Anthony Fitzhrerbert, recorder, was involved with Ruyton's lands, 1512. BA/H/H/259/8.
Herbage, Bishop Street, 1342. BA/H/H/301/8.
Bought Smithford Street land 1552. BA/H/H/314/12.
Enjoyed chief rent on Shortley lands, 1707. BA/H/H/320/2.
Spon Street land, 1677. BA/H/H/324/6.
Fleet Street messuage, 1661. BA/H/H/328/3(d).
Had Harnall land, 1651. BA/H/H/329/8.
Rentcharge, Much Park Street, 1678-79. BA/H/H/332/11-15.
Hay Lane messuage and Much Park Street tenement, 1652-56. BA/H/H/332/18,19.
Rentcharge, Much Park Street, 1664. BA/H/H/332/23.
Much Park Street dwelling, 1699. BA/H/H/332/27.
Warranty against chamberlains, 1404. BA/H/H/349/2.`
Sheriffs' poor law bill, mid seventeenth century. BA/H/I/3/1.
Mayor was appointed a deputy lieutenant, 1630, 1662. BA/H/K/1/1,2.
Sheriffs were responsible for fee farm, early sixteenth century - 1833. BA/H/M/1-4.
Private bonds deposited in the corporation treasury, 1421 - 1683. BA/H/P/11.
Gaoler's appointment tempore Edward IV. BA/H/Q/A79/6.
Correspondence, late fourteenth century - 1720. BA/H/Q/A79/01-320.
Richard Empson, recorder, involved in pressing for full payment of subsidy [,1497]. BA/H/Q/A79/20.
Faction, 1647. BA/H/Q/A79/214.
Letters about James II's purge of the corporation, 1686-88. BA/H/Q/A79/300,301,304.
Regalia-voucher, 1651. BA/H/Q/A79/319.
Miscellaneous specimens of business, 1588 - 1772. BA/H/Q/F8/1.
Wardens' audited account, 1712. BA/H/Q/F8/2/1.
Gaoler's goods, 1657. BA/H/Q/F8/2/11.
Patronised non-resident freeman-stationer, c.1639. BA/H/Q/F8/4/3.
Draft of beginning of James I charter, early seventeenth century. BA/H/Q/F8/7/1.
Council-minutes extracts regarding Bennett versus Palmer case, 1699 - 1700. BA/H/Q/F8/7/2,3.
Other F8 collection records regarding corporation administration 1567 - c.l780. BA/.H/Q/F8/9.
Chamberlains' refusal to take oath, 1646. BA/H/Q/F20/2/10.
Charter renmewal bill, 1663. BA/H/Q/F20/6/21.
Demands from corporation for money, 1641-48. BA/H/Q/F20/8/8,9.
Lawsuits account, 1595. BA/L/B/1/1.
Rex versus Lawrence summons, 1728. BA/L/B/5/2.
Town Clerk's bill, 1647. BA/L/D/2/1.
Chamberlains' or wardens' account, 1661. BA/L/D/3/1.
Documents connected with Edward Owen's Town Clerkship, etc., 1695 - 1778. BA/L/N.
Letter to Mr. Wigg, Town Clerk, 1721. BA/L/N/1/1.
Documents regarding James Birch's Town Clerkship, 1727-54. BA/L/O/1-18.
Bill for mending civic sword, 1616. BA/M/E/1/1.
Letters to mayor, 1727. BA/M/H/2.
Letter from Speaker of House of Commons to sheriffs about M.P.s' absence, 1711. BA/M/H/3/1.
Wardens' rental, 169-. BA/M/J/1/1.
Gaoler's account, 1822-23. BA/M/K/2/3.
Notes about election-procedure following mayors' deaths [,1924]. BA/M/L/1/1,2.
Impressions of 9 Richard II treasury seal. BA/N/U/1.
Mayor's Parlour, Cross Cheaping: site deeds, 1550 - 1840. BA/A/G/2/3,14: BA/B/J/7/1-9.
Acquired moiety of a Priory Court messuage, 1746. PA1516/13/1.
Agreed to build a wall, Smithford Street, 1688. PA1516/16/1.
Watchmaker's dealings with, 1949-57. PA403/39/7; PA403/74/1-3.
Sold Cook Street premises, early eighteenth century. PA403/137/4.
Samuel Troughton, serjeant-at-mace, held a Cook Street messuage, 1716-20. PA403/138/3-8 passim.
Bishop Street messuage, 1720. PA403/139/1.
Priory Court messuage, 1728. PA403/140/1.
Richard Randell, Town Clerk, final concord, 1614. PA403/151/1.
Venire facias, 1717. PA403/154/1.
Coventry Corporation Act [1920] empowered purchase of land near gasworks. PA436/10/5.
List of city coroners, 1355-86 (photocopy of fourteenth century original). PA401/1/1.
Sewage farm valuations, 1927-38. PA438/25,54,63.
Alderman Sidney Stringer's papers, 1927-68. PA465.
Organisation & Methods Review, 1952-55. PA465/1-7.
Sherbourne Ward public meeting, 1967. PA465/26/1,2.
Labour Group ward selection-procedure, 1966. PA465/88/1.
Land-exchange, Warwick Lane, 1937-48. P466/8/1 fol.202.
Culverted Drapers' Fields, 1896. PA466/17/1.
Bought Saint Nicholas' Street land for road-widening, 1907. PA466/21/3.
Land north of Bishop Street, 1575. PA409/1/1.I.
Sold Gosford Street messuage to Edward Bulstrode, mid seventeenth century. PA440/1/1.
Involvement in evolution of Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 1938-49. PA434 passim.
Mayor's warrant for removal of Derbyshire militia, 1778. PA469.
Apprenticeship indenture registered with Town Clerk, 1785. PA470/1 fol.4.
Letters about Allesley charities, 1929-39. PA473/24/6,7,9,10.
Accepted need to rebuild London Road workhouse boundary wall, 1896. PA476/9/4.
Surveyor's estimate for Building Surveyors Plan number 1432, 1899. PA476/10/17.
List of mayors to 1435-36. PA477/1.
Backed Holy Trinity spire-appeal, 1666. PA477/3.
Petitioned against 1683 charter. PA477/4 fol.13.
List of mayors, 1352 - 1650. PA478/1 fols.1-12.
To pay Sir Thomas White's widow an annuity [,1567]. PA482/1.
Enjoyed chief rent upon Pool Yard and Town Wall Pleck, 1602. PA494/1/1.
Gosford Street land, 1606. PA494/1/2.
Minutes from James I charter regarding Cheylesmore manor, mid eighteenth century. PA498/4/1 fols.1-3.
Chancery case regarding Bond's Hospital, 1548-51. PA54/1/1 fols. "1" [6], "4"-"22" [10-28].
In dispute with Doctor John Smith about Bond's Hospital, 1755-63. PA54/8; PA54/18/3.
Recorder's involvement in Bond's Hospital lawsuit, 1757-59. PA54/8/10; PA54/18/3.
Nathan Norman was corporation treasurer, c.1800 - 1815. PA54/86/2-11, 14-16, 18, 19, 22-27, 30, 31, 33-35, 38, 39, 41-43, 45, 47, 49, 50,52, 53, 56-58, 61, 63, 67-78; PA54/87/5, 12, 15-17, 19-28, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 39, 41-44, 46, 47; PA54/8/1, 2, 5, 10, 11, 13-20, 22-24, 27-34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42; PA54/89/4-14, 16-28, 31; PA54/90/7-9, 12-14, 17, 19-25, 27, 29-32; PA54/91/6-9, 17, 19-24, 27-29, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 45-47, 49, 51, 53, 57-61, 66, 67, 69-71, 73, 79; PA54/92/9, 11-14, 17-19, 21, 23, 28, 30, 32-39, 41, 44, 45; PA54/93/3, 7, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35-37, 39, 41, 42, 44; PA54/94/5, 9, 11, 14, 17, 18, 20-24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 40, 43-47, 50, 51, 53-56; PA54/95/4, 9, 10, 13, 15-17, 20-25, 27, 30, 37, 41, 42, 45, 46, 49-54, 56, 58; PA54/96/4, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24, 26, 29-31, 34, 41, 44-48, 50, 52, 55-57; PA54/97/5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23-25, 27, 30, 31, 35, 41, 44, 45, 47, 49-51, 55, 57, 58, 60, 63; PA54/98/3, 5, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20-22, 24, 26, 31, 40, 43, 44, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 55, 57; PA54/99/9, 14, 16, 18, 19.
Corporation bailiffs, 1814. PA54/18/27.
Francis Perkins was corporation treasurer, 1815-22. PA54/99/23, 28, 30, 32, 41, 43, 50, 52, 59, 61, 65, 70, 106, 107, 110, 119-121, 123, 126, 129-132; PA54/100/8, 10, 11; PA54/101/47, 50; PA54/102/16, 40, 41, 43, 46.
James Beck and William Prime were corporation treasurers, 1828-35. PA54/108/64, 76; PA54/109/13, 26, 29; PA54/110/11, 17, 31; PA54/111/6, 17; PA54/112/12, 18, 31, 36; PA54/113/9, 17, 37, 42; PA54/114/12, 23, 37, 42; PA54/115/14, 39; PA54/116/13, 23.
Coventry & Warwickshire Banking Co. were corporation treasurers, 1837-46. PA54/118/20, 27, 42; PA54/119/19, 26, 48, 49; PA54/120/9, 16, 22, 28, 32; PA54/121/8, 165, 27, 32, 35; PA54/122/5, 12, 25, 31, 37; PA54/123/20, 33, 35; PA54/124/7, 10, 23, 25, 31; PA54/125/5, 11, 20, 26, 32; PA54/126/16, 19, 23, 31, 34, 43, 47; PA54/127/13, 19, 24, 32.
Smithford Street land, 1612. PA54/144/1.
Reverend Edward Jackson in charity-dispute with, 1742-43. PA54/153/6; PA54/159/3; PA54/161/6; PA54/172/1; PA54/173/1; PA54/178/1; PA54/188/3; PA54/198/3; PA54/202/4; PA54/227/1; PA54/233/1; PA54/235/3; PA54/238/6; PA54/243/1.
Mayor approved plan to replace Much Park Street house, 1800. PA54/153/9.
Mayor approved plan to repair Whitefriars' Mill, 1794. PA54/154/16.
Gosford Street land, 1613. PA54/156/1.
New Street house leased to High Constable, 1779. PA54/190/6,7.
Town Clerk held land beyond Bishop Street Gate, 1665. PA54/222/2.
Involvement with Burges' widening, 1794. PA54/237/6; PA54/243/7.
Robert Bunney was corporation treasurer, fl.1833-34. PA54/252/1; PA54/308/1,2.
Involved with Lane's Charity lawsuit, 1673. PA54/272/1.
Claimed a Coundon rent, 1673. PA54/272/2.
City wardens were empowered to receive rents, 1516. PA54/285/3.
Recorder was involved in administration of an obit, 1532. PA54/285/7.
Town Clerk held Keresley land, late seventeenth century. PA54/290/1.
Mayor initialled a Ford's Hospital bill [,1820]. PA54/321/1.
Benjamin Pratt was corporation bailiff, 1822-26. PA54/105/18; PA54/323/7; PA54/324/10; PA54/325/1; PA54/326/2; PA54/327/4.
Consent needed to lease out Coxon's Charity estate, 1566. PA54/333/1.
Town Clerk was an attorney to deliver seisn, 1635. PA54/333/9.
Entrusted with various moneys by William Wheate, pre 1618. PA54/344/1.
Feoffees of charitable lands until Municipal Corporations Act (1835). PA500/10/1.
Bought Whitefriars' Mill, c.1844. PA500/21/1.
Wardens owned Radford land, 1760-73. PA500/99.
Permitted rugby club hut [,1951-]1959. PA502/4 fols.17,18,23,25,32,33,36,47.
Grand enquest jurors, 1708. PA503.
"Chronicles of the Mayors of Coventry", by W.G. Fretton [,1888-90]. PA506/100; PA506/134.
List of mayors who had been in the watch trade, late nineteenth century. PA506/174/3.
Fee farm rent, "Bull and Anchor" Yard, Cook Street, 1877-78. PA506/208/4,5; PA54/209/6,7.
1829 rivalry for offices recalled, 1860. PA506/235/12.
Warden's oath was of interest, 1860. PA506/235/13.
Chamberlain rode in Godiva procession, 1824. PA506/235/33.
James Maycock, Conservative mayor, 1884. PA506/235/79.
Mayor favoured breaking London & North-Western Railway's local monopoly, 1865. PA506/243/109.
Sold tithes, Hillfields, 1860. PA507/1/3.IX.
Town planning scheme published, 1933. PA513/10.
Ex-Town Clerk made an honorary freeman, 1946. PA515/54/4,5.
Mayor-elect held reception in Gulson Library, 1946. PA515/54/8.
William Andrews, alderman, 1896. PA515/55/24.
Adopted Wild Birds Act, 1896. 515/56/5.
Assistant surveyorship, 1896.. PA515/56/8.
Mayor's floral garden party, 1894. PA515/67.
Papers of committees concerned with reconstruction, 1940-57. PA516.
Coventry Local Government Officers' Social Club balance sheets, 1924-36. PA525.
Rate-collector appointed, 1856. PA526/66/2.
Disposed of Mayor's Parlour, Cross Cheaping, 1839. PA526/165/11.
Gosford Street land, 1738. PA539/2/1.
Alderman A.H. Drinkwater's death marked, 1934. PA540/12/160,161.
National Association of Local Government Officers' branch minutes, 1921-72. PA547.
Coventry Municipal Music Lovers Society, 1943-72. PA550.
Mayor acting as president of the above, 1951-52. PA550/3/148,154-156.
Enjoyed fee-farm rent on ex-"Three Swans", Much Park Street, 1762. PA553/2.
Involvement with Newfield School, 1929-41. PA556/14/1; PA556/16/6; PA553/17/14.
Alderman Daniel Davis occupied Spon Street property, 1735. PA558.
House at corner of Fleet Street and West Orchard, 1735. PA558.
Assistant Town Clerk drew up bread-dole's terms, 1630. PA565.
Alderman W.H. Grant supported the Coventry Literary & Debating Society, 1930. PA567/12.
Narrow Lane improvement, 1910-29. PA562/22.
City Architect's dealings with Reform Club, 1948-58. PA572/16/16; PA572/17/13,15,21,30.
Paid for fire-attachment, Great Butcher Row, c.1929. P575/3/9.
Bought Great Butcher Row property, 1930. PA575/6/3-5.
Bought 3-5, Priory Row, 1930. PA575/6/26,27.
Interested in change of nature of Blue Coat School, 1938. PA575/8/13,14,17,24.
Mayor's sinterest in Priory ruins and city walls, 1929. PA575/10/11.
Education Department was concerned about a child, 1932. PA575/14/7.
Education Department was concerned about filling Blue Coat School places, 1936. PA575/14/9,10.
Mayors attended Blue Coat School services, 1930-37. PA575/17/2-4,9,11; PA575/20.
Compensation money for vacation of 4 & 5, Queen's Road, 1972. PA578/13/44.
Ring-road promotion, 1949-69. PA578/47 passim.
Fee-farm rents, 94 & 95, Much Park Street and Court 29, etc., Gosford Street [,1878]. PA583/21.
Responsibility for footpaths, 1932-32. PA596/2/5,14-16,18.
Mayor's peace-petition, 1938. in PA594/3/2/5.
Concerned about stream-pollution, 1932. in PA594/3/2/6.
Chief constableship candidature, 1927. in PA594/11/5/1/2.
Support for municipal reform, 1836. PA97/3.
Acceptance of painting, 1855. PA97/4.
Petitions to the establishment about local poverty, 1818-45. PA97/5,6.
Loyal addresses, etc., 1837-58. PA97/7.
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