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Whereby, in consideration of surrender of PA468/5/3/43/21's 1611 lease, John Barker, Godfrey Legg, John Rogerson and Thomas Love (aldermen) and Joseph Legg, Thomas Snell, Anthony Baker and Sampson Wheatcroft (drapers), all of Coventry, Drapers' Company feoffees, let to Samuel Snell (of Coventry, alderman) (a) Biggin Hall, Stoke (comprising twenty tiled bays with a leanto and porch door), with an interior courtyard, a one-bay gatehouse with a pair of gates, a foldyard, a two-bay barn with hogsty, a four-bay barn to the north with an adjoining shore used as an oxhouse, a three-bay adjacent barn with a two-bay shore, a gatehouse with two arches, Old Orchard, New Orchard wherein stands a dovehouse, a grass pleck (between the fishponds and the house) paled along the pond side to the house side, another adjacent little pleck (4 yards long X 10 yards broad), another grass pleck upon the western side of the house, a tiled house of office, "Sanpit Close", Woodcroft (11a. 78p.), Cley Close (8.5a. 48p.), another adjacent Cley Close (5a. 55p.), the adjacent Dove House Close (2a. 20p.), and a two-bay cottage at the western end of Church Field with a pingle (0.5a. 55p.) all occupied by Thomas Bishoppe; (b) a new house in Stoke (occupied by Samuel Ashton, gentleman) containing sixteen bays tiled plus four bays of tiled shores and 3.5 bays of barning, a pingle (1.5a. 20p.) whereon that property has been built but where were previously two cottages (in one of which (of six bays and two shores) dwelt Henry Crowder), with a tiled house of five bays and a tile kiln; (c) Little Park Close (3a. 8p.) next to the pale side of the late Lord Berkeley, together with a grove (8.5a. 2p.) under Caloudon Park and an adjacent meadow with a spang of meadow - altogether 19.5a. 26p.; (d) all arable in Moor Field, Church Field and Park Field, also four lands (0.5a. 62.5p.) in Hen Croft, which arable lands contain 2.5 yardlands ((c),(d) are occupied by S. Ashton); (e) three cottages with gardens at [Earl's] Mill Lane, Coventry (between land sometimes Thomas Potter's north and south), occupied by William Jesson (of Coventry, gentleman) or his assigns; and (f) a garden whereon stood a cottage on the southern side of Well Street beyond the gate, occupied by Benjamin Murdock (between lands late the tanner Richard Murdock's west and Richard Marshall's east, abutting on the town ditch on the south): to be held from [25 Mar 1653] for 37 years at £8 per annum; re-entry if the rent fall 21 days behindhand; Samuel Snell may take timber, if the feoffees are agreeable, for repair of his Stoke parish property. [No former reference.]