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Whereby, having recited: firstly, CCA/2/3/313/4-5; secondly, that Rebecca Smith [II] married James Hancock; thirdly, that he died before her; fourthly, that she never exercised her power of appointment; fifthly, that they had no children; sixthly, CCA/2/3/313/9.IV; seventhly, that Rebecca Hancock died during 1817 and that her will was proved on 3 Nov 1817 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; eighthly, that on 27 Dec 1819 Robert Kirby (in 1821 described as late of Cannon Street, London, pinmaker but now of Meophams Bank, Kent. esq.) agreed to sell Richard Masters (of Coventry, tailor) the Much Park Street messuage with shop, etc. (lately occupied by Thomas Trickett, blacksmith) for £400 but that the money was not paid over; ninthly, that shortly thereafter Richard Masters took possession and demolished the existing premises, building there two messuages near the street and five behind with a factory or shop over them; tenthly that, for £400 then and £800 as therein detailed, on 24 Mar [1821] R. Masters made an agreement to sell John Bromfield (of Coventry, maltster) the new property; eleventhly, that John Bromfield paid Masters the £400; however, twelfthly, that by a 16 Jun [1821] bargain and sale (enrolled on 20 [Jun 1821]) (having rehearsed; first, that a commission of bankruptcy was issued on 28 Mar [1821] against Masters; second that he had been a tailor but owed William Tedd (of Coventry, builder) over £100 and was declared bankrupt; third, that a notice was placed in the "London Gazette" for creditors to whom Masters owed £10 or more to meet at the "King's Head", Coventry on that 6 Jun to choose assignees of his effects, who selected Robert Bunney and John Ball (of Coventry, drapers) for that task; and fourth, that Shirley Farmer Steele Perkins (esq.) and Thomas Minster and Henry Lea (gentlemen [solicitors]), as the major part of the bankruptcy commissioners, found that Masters was entitled to the property on the western side of Much Park Street which was partly occupied by Richard Burbury) for 5/- Shirley Farmer Steele Perkins et al consigned the Much Park Street property to Robert Bunney and William Ball; thirteenthly, that on 22 Aug [1821] (at the offices of John Carter of Coventry, attorney) Masters' creditors authorised Shirley Farmer S. Perkins et al to carry out the process; fourteenthly, that J. Bromfield owes £700 on account but has on the assignees' behalf paid Thomas Banbury £50 so as to buy a small piece of ground which Masters had contracted to purchase because a small portion of the new houses was built thereon; and fifteenthly, that £400 of the £700 ought to be paid to Robert Kirby and his wife Sophia Elizabeth in order to discharge the 1819 sale-agreement's moneys: therefore (in consideration of payment by Bromfield to the Kirbies of £400 under the 1819 agreement, to Masters of £400 under the 1821 one, to T. Banbury of £50 and of £350 to R. Bunney and J. Ball - these sums comprise the £1,200 purchase-price - and of 10/- by Bromfield and his trustee Samuel Carter (of Coventry, gentleman [baker]) to each of the Kirbies, Bunney, Ball and Masters) the Kirbies, Bunney, Ball and Masters convey to Bromfield and Samuel Carter the premises, which are entirely or largely on CCA/2/3/313/5's site (bounded east by the street, south by a messuage which Banbury has conveyed to Thomas Harris, west by Richard Hopkins, esq.'s garden and north by a house which the silkman Jonathan Bray owns and inhabits), themselves tenanted by [the surgeon] Charles Douglas and Richard Burbury; the Kirbies covenant to levy a final concord as of this Michaelmas or another term with Bromfield.