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Whereby, having recited: firstly, as BA/D/A/29/4's first recital; secondly, that on 31 Jul - 1 Aug 1712 the corporation entrusted its Sir Thomas White's Charity estate to Right Honourable William Bromley (of Baginton, Warwickshire, esq.), Honourable John Craven (of Whitley, Coventry, esq.), Sir Thomas Gery (of London, Master in Chancery and knight), Richard Ebourne (of Allesley, Warwickshire, esq.), Norton Hanson (of Coventry, esq.), Arthur Gregory (of Styvechale, Coventry, esq.), Edward Tayler senior (of Ansty, Coventry, esq.), Thomas Burgh (of Coventry, esq.), Robert Smith (of Coventry, esq.), Horatio Hopkins (of Coventry, esq.), Reverend Doctor Jonathan Kimberley (Dean of Lichfield), Reverend Isaac Fox (of Coventry, clerk [in Holy Orders]), Reverend George Greenway (of "Affchurch" [Offchurch], Warwickshire, clerk [in Holy Orders]), Thomas King (of Coventry, gentleman), William Nurden (of Coventry, gentleman), Nathaniel Alsop (of Coventry, gentleman), Thomas Wright, Thomas Herbert, John Yardley, James Birch, Thomas Hunt, Thomas Bott, Joseph Ash, William Lagoe, Robert Bedson and Michael Laurence (of Coventry, gentlemen), John Bowater (of Coventry, esq.), Reverend Samuel Kimberley (of Coventry, clerk [in Holy Orders]) and Charles Hales (of Foleshill, Coventry gentleman); and thirdly, the trustees' 3 Jan 1717 order which allowed Henry Green (of Wyken, Coventry, esq.) to lease the coalmines as no-one else had applied for them, only half the original reserves were thought to be left and they had not been worked for several years, to be held at a reserved rent for both the lease's coals and whatever else he might obtain from other estates mentioned in earlier deeds: therefore the trustees let to Henry Green coalmines as per BA/D/A/31/18, with mining operations, bricks and tiles, buildings and machinery, using wood in the workings, laying manure and hay, but reserving engines on the premises; to be held from 21 Dec 1716 for 21 years, at a peppercorn rent until the tenant shall have got 100 tons of coal, £20 per annum during the qunquennium starting six months after such getting, £30 per annum for the next one, £40 per annum thereafter; re-entry if rent forty days behindhand, but only half of the rent will be due if Henry Green be not getting coal from the trustees' land; H. Green will recompense surface tenants according to an assessment by four arbitrators chosen by the trustees and him, or by them if he fail to select anyone within twenty days, a decision being made within four months of the damage happening; Green will compensate tenants as the trustees think fit for any buildings which might impair the land, will infill exhausted pits and will remove his own new buildings on demand; if the lessee desist from mining within twelve months of this deed's date, the trustees may repossess; option [queried in margin] of further 21-year lease for which Green may apply during the final triennium; six months' notice of surrender; the lessee may cut furze and turf.