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Whereby, in order to assure (a) to Richard Steane (of Coventry, ironmonger), pursuant to a 7 Nov [1756] indenture (wherein John Joyce (of Coventry, presser) and his wife Mary (daughter, heir and devisee of William Keeling of Coventry, clothier, deceased) were of the first part, Richard Steane of the second) and with assurance of the other premises as below, therefore the Joyces will, as of this Michaelmas or next Hilary term, levy a fine with R. Steane upon (a) a messuage on the eastern side of Greyfriars' Lane occupied by Sarah Radford (widow) and Jonathan Coltman which adjoins one inhabited by Joseph Thurston on the north, the entry to [the ironmonger] John Huddesford's yard to the south and rearwards on J. Huddesford's building; (b) a house with press-shop, outhouse and garden on the southern side of Jordan Well, formerly occupied by Mary Joyce's grandfather William Keeling senior; (c) a messuage on the eastern side of Broadgate once tenanted by the late Alderman Thomas Palmer but now by Elizabeth Ratten, widow; (d) a Broadgate house once the dwelling of M. Joyce's father, late of her husband, on the site of a messuage and two shops formerly occupied by [the draper] Samuel Crichlowe, adjacent to (c); (e)(i) a messuage which has been converted into a stable and four tenements with a garden (the stable and garden used by J. Joyce, the tenements by Jeremiah Soden, John Freer, - Mills (widow) and Anne Smith (widow)) and (ii) a messuage in three tenements (let to Robert Large, Thomas Steel and Raphael Somervile [pinmaker]), all on the eastern side of Greyfriars' Lane and formerly occupied by Samuel Crichlowe, Christopher Launder [butcher], Abraham Wood, Elizabeth King (widow), Thomas Mayo, Mary West (widow), Samuel Lapworth and Anne Lapworth (widow); (f) a messuage, divided into two tenements, with a garden on the western side of Warwick Lane or Greyfriars' Lane, lately held by William Wheatley et al, now by [the brickmaker] Benjamin Newland and Henry "Attkins", together with an outhouse used by Richard Goodall as a dwelling; (g) another messuage there with Greyfriars' churchyard, once occupied by Richard Tanner and Thomas Read but now by Thomas Pooley; and (h) a croft outside Greyfriars' Gate near the horse pool which adjoins Pudding Croft, 74 yards long "by the way side there", tenanted by B. Newland, with a little piece (adjoining the horse pool) let to [the carrier] Cleophas Dullison: to be described as nine messuages, one stable, four gardens and 2a. pasture in Saint Michael's parish, Coventry so that (a) might enure to Steane and the rest successively to J. Joyce, then John Lucas (apothecary) and Nathaniel Read (baker), both of Coventry, to preserve contingent remainders or as Joyce might have appointed, the couple's bodily heirs with cross-remainders and his right heirs, or (if she survive him) M. Joyce for life, her appointee, all her children and their issue with cross-remainders, herself and her right heirs; the couple may alter the terms regarding (b)-(h) while alive or lease those properties for up to 21 years.