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Whereby, having recited: firstly, Thomas [I] Coke's 7 Dec 1835 will (which entrusted William Prime [banker] and Stephen Hammerton [ribbon-dresser] after his wife's Mary's death with £2,500 for investment in government securities so as to maintain his grand daughter Charlotte Coke until of age or at the time of earlier marriage, then to her for life, whereafter the money should be divided equally between her children then living (and the issue of any who had meanwhile died), by default it passing to his grand daughter Martha Coke and her progeny likewise; when Mary was dead, the trustees should invest £1,500 similarly on behalf of the testator's son Thomas [II] with remainder between Charlotte, Martha and Thomas [II]'s youngest daughter; when the wife was dead, they should also pay £500 each to the testator's nieces Mary Preston and Jane Clapp - if, however, Mary died before Thomas [I] received money expectant upon the deaths of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Glover of Derby, the nieces' legacies should be paid as each of those ladies died - if he received more than £1,000 from them, the balance should sink into the personalty, but if it were less than that sum the legacies should be made up from the testator's general personalty; when the wife was dead, Thomas Atkins should inherit the "Hertford Arms", Whitley, but if he died under age that inn would pass to the three grand daughters; when the wife was dead, residuary estate should be shared equally between the three grand daughters and T. Atkins with benefit of survivorship for the rest if any of them die under 21; named executors, the trustees should pay all legacy duties of less than £50); secondly, that, by a 2 Aug 1836 codicil, T. [I] Coke added his friend Thomas Rogers [auctioneer] to the executorship; thirdly, that the testator died on 21 Dec 1836 and that probate was granted on 19 Jul 1837; fourthly, that Mary Coke predeceased her husband, that Stephen Hammerton renounced probate, that T. Rogers died during Apr 1840 and that W. Prime did so in Feb 1841; fifthly, that on 24 Feb 1842 letters of administration with the will annexed were granted to Martha [nee Coke] the wife of William Davies Jephcott (in 1853 described as of Stivichall, Warwickshire, gentleman); sixthly, that the nieces have died and their legacies been paid to their personal representatives; seventhly that, however, the net personalty was insufficient to pay the bigger legacies in full, which meant that the £2,500 became reduced to £2,068/13/3 and the £1,500 to £1,241/15/11, which has attracted a total of £33/2/4 legacy duty; eighthly, a 5 Nov 1842 mortgage whereby (having rehearsed: first, deeds of lease and release dated 25-26 May 1832; and second, that William (Davies) Jephcott had agreed to lend Thomas Dalton (of Coventry, silkdyer) and his wife Frances £1,000 out of trust-moneys under Thomas [I] Coke's will) the Daltons charged to William [D.] Jephcott a Warwick Row messuage beyond Greyfriars' Gate['s site] (successively occupied by Joseph Wilson, William Young, - Wall and then [the solicitor] William Wilmot) between one successively inhabited by John Cookes, - Cookes his widow and then Mary Cash (widow) to the west or southwest and one successively held by John Fowler, Jane Fowler (widow) and then - Butterworth to the east or northeast, itself extending backwards to Pudding Croft; ninthly, CCA/2/3/221/22; tenthly, the 5 Nov 1842 mortgage by Richard Holland Goode to William [Davies] Jephcott of part of a tenter yard [in which would have been set up tenters, which were devices for stretching cloth] (formerly occupied by Abraham Awson, esq. but then used as a garden) on the eastern side of [Earl's] Mill Lane in Saint Michael's parish, being 33 feet wide and covering 179 square yards (bounded east by another part of the garden ground which remained [the grocer] Joseph Butterworth's, west by part of the garden which [the maltster] William Barnacle had purchased, north by Joseph Butterworth's wall and south by the 24-foot wide Grove Street which itself had been set out from the garden and led at a width of 16 feet into Mill Lane, with the [Grove Street Primitive Methodist] meetinghouse, school, etc. thereon, for the benefit of John Hobbins, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Bray, Josiah Stockhill, William Hall senior, John Villers, William Biddle, John Taylor and William Hall junior as the meetinghouse's trustees; eleventhly, the 5 Nov 1842 assignment, for John Clifton's benefit, by Michael Dowling to William [Davies] Jephcott of a messuage (then occupied by J. Clifton, Widow Dix, - Wain, Samuel Keene, - Bickley, James Jones and -) which Clifton had built upon 529 square yards which formed part of Burton's Meadow, Spon End (sometime occupied by [the builder] Joseph Barnes), bounded north by Spon Brook, south by Summerland Butts Lane, east by land which J. Barnes had sold to [the beer-retailer] John Elliott and John Bettridge, west by another part of the meadow which remained Barnes' inheritance, for the residue of a term created on 17 Nov 1828 and redemption of the principal with interest; twelfthly, the 21 Dec 1843 mortgage by Isaac Jephcott [brushmaker] to William [Davies] Jephcott of a messuage on the southern side of Smithford Street with outbuildings and yard (successively occupied by John Wallis, Catherine Wallis his widow, John Jordan, George Farmer, Samuel Parker and then Hannah Taylor (widow)) with free passage to the yard on the western side from the street, for redemption of £300 with interest; thirteenthly, the 21 Jul 1851 mortgage by Thomas Clarke [auctioneer] to William [Davies] Jephcott of the "Rose and Crown" (lately let to Mary Rogers) on the western side of Saint John's Bridge, with what had been a chandler's shop, etc. (bounded north by a messuage successively occupied by [the auctioneer] Joseph Ford, John Halford and lately [the ribbon-manufacturer] Richard Hands, south by one once [the grocer] Robert Goode's and theretofore occupied by John Peake) for redemption of £450 with interest; fourteenthly, that William Davies Jephcott declares that the several principals of £1,000+£300+£300+£250+£300+£450 = £2,600 are due and were advanced out of money which belonged to Thomas [I] Coke's estate, and that he has £678/6/10 in cash, so the total estate-money is £3,278/6/10, which has to service the £2,500 and £1,500 legacies mentioned in the will; fifteenthly, that William D. Jephcott petitioned with the others as per CCA/2/3/221/26; sixteenthly, that the costs were taxed at £67/4,/- which Abel Rotherham and William Keatley (of Coventry, gentlemen) have paid out of the £678/6/10, which is thereby reduced to £611/2/10, hence £3,211/2/10 is available to service the legacies; and seventeenthly, that Martha Jephcott has consented to participate herein: therefore for 10/- W.D. Jephcott consigns to Abel Rotherham and William Keatley the principals with all interest due, along with the properties mentioned in the Dowling mortgage for the residue of that term but the others absolutely.