Whereby, for £1,315 20d. paid to the treasury of the Court of Augmentations, the Crown conveys to the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty (a) premises occupied by John Ebourne, John Fawkes, James Farmar, William Tramper, John Ebarne, John Mayle, William Huxley, Richard Bristowe, John Byrde, Richard Perkyns, John Casson, Henry Collyns, John Querneby, William Barker, Thomas Whetley, Thomas Clerke, Thomas Wylcoks, John Marshall, Henry Thirkyll, Robert Andrewes, Thomas Spencer, John Herron, William Rogers, John Sened, John Goodman, Katherine Deane, Agnes Hayes, Robert Clayton's wife, Thomas Turnour, Alice Foster, John Clowes, Edward Chayney, John Perkyns, William Stafforde, James Mathewe, John Wade, Richard Sparry, John Tede, William Saunders, Henry Hayes, John Croo, Thomas Rawlyns, John Halfpenny, Thomas Fangolde, Richard Bently, John Nealde, John Roo, Alice Lewes, Alice White, John Shene and John Tedde in Coventry and suburbs, formnerly Corpus Christi Guild property; (b) Merynton's Chantry and property occupied by Thomas Robynsons [sic], Humphrey Angros, Richard Herryng, John Kynley, Roger Goodman, Alice Collyns, Agnes Kytte, Hugh Kyng, Leonard Brodebury, Rayus [quasi-Latinisation of Ralph, recte Radulfus?] Wayte, Joan Black, Elizabeth Gardyner, Alice Butler, Agnes Hynde, Joan Curryer, Margaret Browne, Alice Plaunte, John Jeye, Roger Skynner, Christopher Crofte, Richard Coke, John Somners, Henry Ulson [quasi Elson?], Thomas Williamsons [sic], Christopher Jackson, John Taylour and John Hales, esq.; (c) Ford's and Pisford's Charity alias Ford's almshouses, Coventry with property occupied by Elizabeth James, John Shotteswell, Thomas Johnson, William Porter, Richard Crose, Martin Rydell, John Porter, John Castell, Thomas Greyte and William Blacke in Coventry, Weston[-under-Wetherley], "Kyrsbury" [Keresley], Alspath, Meriden and Gaddesby, Leicestershire and Warwickshire; (d) Copston's Chantry with premises occupied by Margaret Bykkeley, Agnes Waltham, William Rogers, William Foster, Thomas Smythe, Thomas Warren, Nicholas Wise, Margaret Peerte, John Miller, William Underwoode, Philip Shererde, Robert White and Nicholas Lawes in Coventry; (e) "Shepes" Chantry with premises occupied by Thomas Skowse, John Symons, James Smyth, Thomas Perkyns, Walter Stanley, John Hartewell, Henry Millatt, Edward Deane and William Robynsons [sic] in Coventry; (f) a messuage (occupied by Henry Harvey) in St. Michael's parish, formerly Hayes' Chantry, with tenements inhabited by paupers, Gosford Street, formerly belonging to the Tailors' and Shearmen's Company or called St. George's Chapel; (g) Preston's Chantry with premises occupied by Thomas Marsham, John Ruell, Gilbert Glover, Roger Weber, Joan Stoketon, Margaret Peter, Thomas Seny and Richard Keye in Coventry; (h) Allesley's Chantry with premises occupied by John Grafham, Richard Hunte, Elizabeth Nevyl, Richard Reves, John Procter and John Bankes in Coventry; (i) Percy's Chantry with premises occupied by Richard Warner, William Wylks, Henry Hancocks, Henry Smyth, Margaret Nicholls, Richard Asshmere, John Bonde, John Donythorpe, Thomas Thompson's wife, Elizabeth Steade, Richard Nevell, Elizabeth Davye, Elizabeth Dykens and John Fitzherbert in Coventry; (j) "Logynton"'s [Loddington's] Chantry with premises occupied by Richard Denton, Roger Buckeley and Margaret Tallands in Coventry; (k) Cellet's Chantry with five messuages and a garden occupied by John Wade, Alexander Wryght, Richard Stoke and Richard Howe in Holy Trinity parish; (l) £6/19/- per annum rent from premises once John Symons' for a priest in St. Michael's to sustain an annual obit; (m) £9/4/4 per annum from corporation premises for maintaining an obit beyond the value of 78/4 for the poor; (n) 16/2 per annum rent from two messuages in Spon Street and one in "Mill Street" [Earl's Mill Lane? Hill Mill Lane?] for maintaining Richard Warde's obit; (o) 22/8 per annum rent from one cottage and two shops in Coventry for maintaining Richard Braster's obit; (p) 6/6 per annum rent from tenements occupied by Roger Appeley and Simon Wayneman in West Orchard for sustaining Elizabeth Povy's obit; (q) 18/4 per annum rent from premises sometime John Brodemedou''s for an obit in Holy Trinity; (r) 3/4 per annum rent from Richard Norrys' premises [no site] for an obit; (s) a messuage with half a virgate at Stareton, Coventry [recte Warwickshire] for Thomas Forman's obit; (t) 6/2 per annum rent from a messuage and garden, Spon Street for Roger Wallys' obit; (u) 10/4 per annum rent from one messuage, two cottages and a garden outside Gosford Gate for Richard Plompton's obit; (v) 10/- per annum rent from a Cow Lane tenement for John Coleman's obit; (w) 6/1 per annum rent from a tenement called "syrktawerne" at the gaol hall, Coventry for William Cooke's obit; (x) 26/8 per annum rent from premises formerly John Padlande's for his obit; (y) 43/- per annum rent from premises sometime Master Bonde's to sustain an obit; (z) 15/5 per annum rent from premises sometime [Reverend] Doctor [Thomas] Orton's for an obit; (aa) 15/6 per annum rent from premises sometime Master [Robert] Burnell's for an obit; (ab) 15/2 per annum rent from premises sometime John Hadeley's for an obit within Holy Trinity; (ac) 7/10 per annum rent from premises sometime John Meneley's for a Holy Trinity obit; (ad) 5/- per annum rent from premises sometime John Downe's for an obit; (ae) 6/8 per annum rent from premises once William Baxter's and Richard Brewer's for an obit; (af) 7/11 per annum rent from lands sometime William Bedell's for an obit; (ag) 21/4 per annum rent from premises sometime Thomas Warren's for an obit; (ah) 6/- per annum rent from a croft sometime John Butler's in Radford for an obit; (ai) 4/1 per annum rent from two selions and tables called "le Newe rents" outside Bishop's Gate, occupied by Thomas Taylor and Edward Gravenor, consigned for an obit by Master Todde; (aj) 10/- per annum from premises occupied by Henry Collyns, appointed for an obit by William Hurdes; (ak) 10/- per annum rent from a tenement and small croft for Edward Blakewell's obit; (al) 10/-per annum rent from "Skotts" lands (occupied by John Baldwyn) for John Hudson's obit; (am) rents, totalling 35/2, from Trinity Guild possessions in St. Michael's parish which sometime belonged to Henry Over, William Cotton and the Mercers' Company; also (an) rents of property of Hugh Blower, William Norton and Henry Kebull's heirs, and "Our lady lande" relating to Holy Trinity church; and (ao) premises occupied by Roger Quyck, John Foster, William Turnour, Alice Grene, John Pennyfather, Thomas Nealder, William Smyth, John Bateman, William Kytchen, John Landall, George Wynkfelde, William Mason, John Samwell, William Kytchen [sic], Richard Hanrys' wife, Miles Boedon', John Grene, Patrick Longe, Beatrice Lante, William Albyon, Henry Dawson', Philip Verder, Richard Carpenter, John Bounde, William Howley, Thomas Bateman, William Hurley, Richard Bromewyche, Thomas Crose, Nicholas Butler, William Cotton', John Heth, John Baker, Thomas Fydon', John Hall, Thomas Warren', Edmund Backester, Henry Mayote, Richard Bannewell, John Bere, Thomas Holmes, Humphrey Coke, Richard Collyngs, Robert Sysserson, George Charlet, John Threscey, Ralph Jeffrey, Nicholas Lewes, Thomas Vycars, Thomas Wilson', Joan Lebarde, William Bailye, John Cambere, Richard Warner, John Woodes, Robert Clerke, Robert Twyste, John Browne, John Kytchens, John Foster, Richard Townesend, Agnes Robyns, James Preston, William Stanley, William Snoden, William Wynde, Thomas Johnson, Richard Heth', John Langley, Anthony Lawton', John Wilcoks, William Glover, Thomas Heeth', John Sambroke, Andrew Daryngton', Henry Heth', Thomas Bonde, Hamet Brynne, Alice Warren', George Felde, John Foster, Christopher Warren, Richard Wotton', Richard Giller, Thomas Hayes, Nicholas Sparks, William Randall, Thomas Haynes, John Bisocher, Elizabeth Pulliver, George Arthure, William Barton', Thomas Pylson', Edmund Tyler, Alice Woodwarde, William Ingrame, Alice Enderbye, Oliver Foster, Richard Herdy, John Nedermyll, Henry Over, William Turnour, Ralph Dawlde, John Hawmond, Henry Porter, Robert Hamonde, George Hickman, John Amysse, Robert Alyn', Giles Hopkyns, John Wallys, Roland Gosnell, Christopher Robynson, Elizabeth Barnes, Agnes Solley, William Lante, William Knyght, John Phillys, John Tornor, Hugh Atkyns, John Haynes, Robert Cocken, Helen Greneway, John Bangeley, Robert Tornor, Richard Prate, Richard Gregory, John Bataman, John Gardener, George Barlow, John Kythcen's wife, John Rogers, John Benett, William Cryche, William Kyng, John Rayner, John Cokes, Richard Northrop, Robert Procter, Richard Shelton, Thomas Page, Thomas Trustram, William Bedell, Maurice Bedell, Richard Mawbourne, Henry Joyner, John Baylye, Richard Giller, John Hanson', Richard Ebrall, Richard Johnson, John Clement's wife, Thomas Mawes, Daniel Griff's wife, Robert Wythforde, Thomas Collyns, Richard Phillips, Philip Sherarde, Christopher Warren', John Ballarde, John Bridge, Martin Whetforde, William Wright, John Perkes' wife, Mary Hawks, John Deduke, William Barker, Philip Sherarde [sic], Elizabeth Byne, John Saunders, John Seywell, Alice Hobson, Thomas Rideley, Thomas Wotten', Henry Coke, William Trowman', Margaret Reve, Thomas Dyckens, Thomas Thomer, Henry Saunders, Henry Collyns, Thomas Wotton', Henry Wover, Richard Hardy, William Thomson', John Rypton, Richard Warner, John Shepherde, Hugh Delawey, James Rogers, John Harforde, John Bowlett, John Wardock, William Bayly, John Hill, Philip Shererd', Giles Hopkyns, Thomas Hopkyns, William Glover, Thomas Seaney, Thomas Morrys, John Nethermyll, Hugh Blower, Thomas Griff, Richard Smyth, Nicholas Hopkyns, William Hopkyns, Thomas Rylye, Thomas Hawkes, Henry Heth', Richard Warner, William Ryley and Richard Banwell in Coventry, its suburbs and elsewhere which is the late Trinity Guild's estate; (ap) woodland (general); and (aq) whatever else should come to the corporation as a consequence of the [Guilds and Chantries Dissolution Act, 1547]: together these are worth £196/9/3 (but to the Crown are reserved "Bondes landes" (£49/12/7)), to be held in free socage [feudally a catchall agricultural tenure, it survived the decline of feudalism and became defined as freehold as opposed to copyhold], rendering:- for nine messuages (occupied by John Eyborne, John Fawkes, James Fermour, William Tramper, John Ebarne, John Mayle, William Hurley, Richard Brystowe and John Birde) in Spon Street, for all other Corpus Christi Guild property there, for seven Cross Cheaping messuages (occupied by Thomas Wheteley, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Wilkocks, John Marshall, Henry Thirkyll, Robert Andrewes and Thomas Spencer), all in Cross Cheaping which was Corpus Christi Guild property, three messuages in Smithford Street (held by John Perkins, William Stafford and James Mathewe) which were Corpus Christi Guild property, all ex-Corpus Christi Guild premises let to John Tedde, Ford's or Pisford's Charity or almshouses property and what pertained to Shepey's, Percy's and Loddington's Chantries, the 35/2 per annum rent due to Holy Trinity Guild (upon premises tenanted by Henry Over, William Cotton, the Mercers' Company, Hugh Blower, William Norton and Henry Kebell's heirs), Our Lady Lande, 24 Little Park Street cottages (inhabited by John Foster, Richard Townesend, Agnes Robyns, James Preston', William Stanley, William Snowden, William Wynde, Thomas Johnson, Richard Hethe, John Langley, Anthony Lawton, John Wilkockes, William Glover, Thomas Heethe, John Sambroke, Andrew Doryngton, Henry Heeth', Thomas Bounde, Liod's late wife [sic], Hamet Bryme, Alice Warren, George Felde and John Foster) which were sometime Trinity Guild property, also five messuages and a parcel of land in Earl Street (demised to Alice Enderby, Oliver Foster, Richard Hardy, John Nethermyll and Henry Over; sometime Trinity Guild property), 28 tenements and cottages in Spon Street (inhabited by Hugh Atkyns, John Haynes, Robert Cockeyn', Helen Grenewaye, John Baugeley, Robert Turnour, Richard Prate, Richard Gregorie, John Bateman', John Gardener, George Barlowe, John Kytchyn's wife, John Rogers, John Bennett, William Cryche, William King, John Rayner, John Cokys, Richard Northroppe, Robert Procter, Richard Shelton', Thomas Page, Thomas Trustram, William Bedell, Maurice Bedle, Richard Mawbourne, Henry Joyner and Joan Bayley; sometime Trinity Guild property), eight Cross Cheaping tenements (occupied by Richard Hardy, William Thomson', John Ripton, Richard Warner, John Shepherd', Hugh Delawaye, James Rogers and John Harforde; ex-Trinity Guild property), "le Welshe Draperie" and "le Woll Halle", a little chamber (cubiculo), another tenement and 27 shops in le Drapereye (let to John Bowlatt, John Woodcock', William Bayley, John Hill, Philip Sherarde, Giles Hopkyns, Thomas Hopkins, William Glover, Thomas Seny, Thomas Moryce, John Nethermyll, Hugh Blower, Thomas Griffith', Richard Smythe, Nicholas Hopkyns, William Hopkins, Thomas Ryley, Thomas Hawkes, Henry Heyth', Richard Warner, William Ryley and Richard Barnwell; once Trinity Guild's) £90 to the Court of Augmentations: all these pass to the corporation but reserving annual rents of 12d. from Corpus Christi Guild premises to Master Stokes, 3/4 likewise to John Hales (esq.), 5/- to John Nethermyll, 6/- thus to Christopher Rice for chief rent, 3/- similarly to Edward Aston (knight), 13/4 to the city chamber for murage, 20/- thus for the fee of the bailiff and collector of former guild lands, 27/- similarly for farm of a new Corpus Christi Lane tenement for maintenance of the poor, 3/- from Merynton's Chantry to the chamber, 2/- from Copston's Chantry for murage to the chamber, 4d. from Hayes' Chantry to the chamber, 3/- from Copston's Chantry to William Stoke for chief rent, 18d. from Preston's Chantry to the chamber for murage, 20d. from Allesleye's Chantry to the chamber likewise, 2/- from Percy's Chantry similarly, 2/8 from [Loddington's] Chantry to John Hales (esq.) for chief rent, 16d. from the same to the chamber for murage, 15d. from [Shepey's] Chantry to the Duchess of Richmond in right of Coombe Abbey, 2/6 from the same for murage to the chamber, £5/13/4 granted to Gilbert Blont (gentleman)) for bailiff's fee for part of the premises (p[ro] feodo Ballivi parcell[a] premiss[orum]), 78/2 from [Shepey's] Chantry to the vicar or priest of [Walsgrave-on-]Sowe, 13/4 from Hayes' Chantry to the vicar of Foleshill to augment his vicarage, £9/15/- from Pisford's Chantry to the corporation as alms for the poor according to the directions of Walter Myldmay (knight) and Robert Kelway (esq.) as Crown commissioners, 3/4 from premises formerly maintaining years' minds (anniversarior[um]) which Walter Mildmay and Robert Kelway have been appointed to distribute in alms, 7/6 from Keresley lands (part of Pisford's Chantry) payable to Henry Over, 3/- from a tenement called "Glovers Roo" which was formerly a Trinity Guild possession and of the possessors (possessor[um]) of Cheylesmore Manor, 5/- from Trinity Guild premises now payable to the corporation, 2/10 from Trinity Guild premises payable to Thomas Lewes and his heirs, 2/- from one thus payable to Lord Burgeveney and his heirs, 21/- thus to Humphrey Ferr[er]s (knight) and his heirs, 16d. from same to Lord Burgaveney and his heirs, 8/- thus to John Hales (esq.) in right of the prior of Coventry, 15/- similarly in right of St. John Baptist's Hospital, 6/8 likewise generally, 9/- from Trinity Guild to William Stokes (esq.) and his heirs, 10/- from same to Thomas Whyte of Bristol and his heirs, 8/- likewise to Henry Kebulls' heirs, 12d. from Trinity Guild to the corporation, 2/- from same to the Duchess of Richmond in right of Coombe Abbey, 4/- from same to David Owen (knight) and his heirs, £4 from same to the chamber for murage, £6 from the guild for the bailiff or collector of its former revenues, and £6 from the same to the supervisor of repairs to guild property.
[Written in Latin]
[The central-government version of this document is detailed at Calendar Patent Rolls, 1550-53, pp. 337-343.] [Former reference: B75.]