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Having recited: firstly, PA1681/50/2; secondly, that Abraham Awson has died; and thirdly, that Stephen Freeman (of Ryton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, esq.; devisee of hereditaments under PA1681/50/3) wishes to bar entail: therefore for 10/- Stephen Freeman conveys to Robert Baxter (of Furnivals Inn, Middlesex, gentleman.[barrister]) (a) a messuage on the eastern side of Earl's Mill Lane, Coventry (successively occupied by (1) Abraham Awson's namesake grandfather, (2) Abraham Awson the testator, (3) William Burbery and now (4) Francis Vickers, Joseph Martin, - Child and William Shaw); (b) another tenement there, once a stable, to the south of (a) and held by William Turner; (c) a tenement, successively a cowhouse and dyehouse, behind (a), tenanted by John Wright jun., with a stable used by John Johnson; (d) a plot extending behind the messuages aforesaid to land successively belonging to Mr. Whiteman, the late James Wyatt, esq. and now Mr. Thomas Morris [stuffmerchant] (occupied by Thomas Benbow) on the east, bounded on the south by land once belonging to John Miller [dyer] and occupied by John Sheeres but now held by Joseph Francis [gardener], on the north by land once John Miller's and occupied by John Ansell but now Thomas Butterworth [currier]'s and tenanted by James Nutt [warehouseman] - the plot was once a tenter-ground occupied by Abraham Awson the grandfather but is now cultivated as gardens by William Bright, James Mattocks, John Judd, [the watchcasemaker] William Nock, Thomas Russell and Charles Jordan - (a)-(d) are held by William Burbery under the testator's lease; (e) a messuage, now in three tenements, with garden, on the northern side of Gosford Street, occupied by William Hall senior, William Hall jun, James Lax, Thomas Lissaman, Sophia Thompson and Thomas Glover, extending to a meadow cultivated by - Smith; (f) a messuage, formerly two cottages, with appurtenances, in St. Michael's parish, Coventry, occupied by Francis Littlewood [butcher]; (g) six closes in St. Michael's parish, occupied like (f), covering 20a. and known as "The two Home Closes", "Middle Close", "Blands Meadow", "Stoke Meadow" and "Far Close", occupied by F. Littlewood, formerly just Oak Close and Long Meadow, at Hasilwood, being part of "Brodox Waste" [Red Lane], adjoining part of the former Foleshill Heath on the north, Stoke Heath on the east; (h) "Paradise" close (1a.) [cf. Paradise Street] near the site of New Gate (once tenanted by Thomas Hancock, now by John Cleeter [silkman]) with a coachhouse and barn which J. Cleeter holds; (i) Barons Field or Barns Field (Lammas), St. Michael's parish, beyond New Gate's site, lying [in a district which would now be regarded as part of Cheylesmore] between the turnpike road to London on the east and Green Lane [now Quarryfield Lane] on the west, Brownells Quarry on the north and Whitley Common on the south, lately held by John Lax but now by J. Cleeter; (j) "the Pyewell" (Lammas meadow) at Swifts Corner, bounded [only] north by Whitley Common, west by the turnpike, lately occupied by A. Awson grandpere, now by John Perkins; and (k) three closes (12a.), Stoke parish, Coventry county (occupied by John Hanson, formerly known as Woodcroft Close, "Dabrideiuge Close or the further Dabrideiuge Piece" and Long Meadow, of which Woodcroft Close adjoins the Coventry-Binley highway on the north, Biggin Hall grounds on the south, Biggin Hall Woodcroft on the west and Binley Way Furlong on the east: all so that Robert Baxter may suffer,as tenant, a common recovery this Michaelmas or next Hilary term, John Woodcock jun. (of Coventry, gentleman.[solicitor]) suing the demandant and Stephen Freeman acting as vouchee.