Abridgement of Coventry benefactors' wills, namely those of John Tallants (fol. 1...

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17th century

Abridgement of Coventry benefactors' wills, namely those of John Tallants (fol. 1 recto), Richard Barker (fol. 1. recto - verso), Mr Wilks (fol. 1 verso), Richard Saunders (fols. 1 verso - 2 recto), Richard Elkington (fol. 2 recto - verso), Elizabeth Sharratt (fols. 2 verso - 3 recto), Richard Smith (1591) (fol. 3 verso), Thomas Nichols (fol. 3 verso), Mrs Piggeon alias Pickin (fol. 4 recto), William Wheate (fols. 4 recto - 5 recto), Roger Clark (fol. 5 recto), John Whitehead (fol. 5 recto), Nicholas Chambers (fol. 5 verso), William Hopkins (fol. 5 verso), Simon Stone (fol. 6 recto), Henry Breeres (fol. 6 verso), William Sale (fols, 6 verso - 7 recto), Nicholas Rabye (fol. 7 recto), William Sewall (fol. 7 verso), John Haddon (fol. 8 recto), Thomas Dudley (fol. 8 verso), Thomas Wale (fol. 9 recto - verso), Thomas Jesson (1636) (fol 10 recto), Issac Walden (fol. 10 verso), Richard Clarke (fol. 10 verso), Richard Wright (fol. 11 verso), Thomas Lane (fols. 11 verso - 13 recto), Christopher Davenport (fols. 13 recto - 14 vecto), John Duckett (fol. 14 recto), Thomas White of Bristol (fol. 14 recto - verso), Simon Norton (fols. 14 verso - 15 verso), Edmund Palmer (fol. 16 recto), the Countess of Devonshire (fol. 16 recto), Richard Smith (1623) (fol. 16 verso), John Coxon (fol. 16 verso), William Stanley (fols. 16 verso - 17 recto), William Wright (fol. 17 verso), William Jesson (fol. 17 verso), Thomas Jesson (1653) (fol. 17 verso), Isobel Oliver (fol. 18 recto), Sir James Drax, (fol. 18 recto), Samuel Pixley (fol. 18 recto), Sarah Wood (fol. 18 recto), William Drax (fol. 18 verso), Thomas Wade (fol. 18 verso), Joan Love (fol. 19 recto), Edward Lufkin (fol. 19 recto), John Brooke (fol. 19 recto), William Jeliffe (fols. 19 verso - 20 recto), Joseph Chambers (fol. 20 recto), Humphrey Burton (fol. 20 verso), John Gayer (fol. 21 recto - verso), Elizabeth Swillington (fols. 22 recto - 23 verso).

Fol. 24. Blank.

Fols. 25-26. Abstracts of the above wills.

Fols. 27 - 29. Sir Thomas White's Charity.

Fols. 30 - 31. St. John's College, Oxford settlement.

Fol. 32. Blank.

Fols. 33 recto - 34 recto. Correspondence about Dr. Wicks' claim to Coundon land, 1604.

Fol. 34 recto-verso. Samuel Clarke petition as above, temp Charles II.

Fol. 35. Blank.

Fol. 36. Bradnocks Marsh [,Temple Balsall] rental, 1675.

Abridgement of wills of Richard Baron (fol. 36 verso),

Samuel Frankland (fol. 37 recto), William Bird (fols. 38 recto - 37 verso), Thomas Bond (fols. 40 recto - 41 recto).

Fols. 42 recto - 44 recto. Lammas Lands (1422).

Fol. 45 recto. James Nayler charitable rent charge.

Fols. 46 recto - 49 recto. Bond's Hospital benefactions and administration.

Fols. 50 recto - 52 verso. Wheatley Charity.

Fol. 53 recto - Corporation tithe agreement with Bartholomew Tate, 1595.

Fol. 54 recto. Survey of Brailes Farm, Meriden, Warws., 1692.

Fol. 55 recto - [78 recto] (fols. "55" - "57"). Sir Thomas White - will, purchase, survey.

Fols. [78 verso] - [81 recto] (fol. "58"). Edward VI's inspeximus charter.

Fols. [82 recto] - [86 recto]. (fol. "59"). Henry Harwell's indenture, 1641.

Fols. [87 recto] - [88 recto] (fol. "60"). Nicholas Burway's will, 1519.

Summarised at A.A. Dibben: "Coventry City Charters" (searchroom library pamphlet box C6(d)) p. 28, and dated 1551.

Fols. [89 recto] - [91 verso] (fol. "61"). William Coke's will, 1523.

Fols. [92 recto] - [93 recto] (fol. "62"). Thomas Bond's will, 1507.

Fols. [93 verso] - [94 verso] (fol. "63"). John Bond's will, 1537.

Fols. [95 recto] - [98 recto] (fols. "64" - "67"). Thomas Jesson's will, 1634.

Fols. [99 recto] - [102 recto] (fols. "68" - "70" + 1). Corporation tithe agreement with Batholomew Tate, 1595.

Fols. [103 recto] - [105 verso]. Coxon's indenture, 1566.

Fols. [106 recto] - [116 verso]. Chancery decree (incomplete) between Jane Morgan et al and Thomas Basnett about [partial] enclosure of Stoke Common, 1655.

Former references: A119; Charities General 5. 1.17c

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