Deed poll of gift

John Talans, goldsmith and alderman of Coventry, to Francis Talans, his bastard son.

Property: A messuage, a garden, one and a half leys of pasture lately in the tenure of Thomas Hylle, wheelwright, lying in Sponne Street in the suburbs of the city of Coventry.

A tenement and garden and two leys on the north side of the same street in the tenure of John Skotherne and Thomas Hongton.

A tenement and garden of the yearly rent of 46s. 8d. now held by John Slye, baker, together with five other tenements and five gardens on the north side of the same street now held by Richard Robynson, Robert the carrier, John Bagley, John Heynes, and John Farrer.

A manor house with all the buildings and gardens' at Joorden Welle in Coventry which his wife was to inhabit for seven years after his death.

Three other tenements, the gardens, and one orchard held by John Sheldon, dyer, and Thomas Holmes, shoemaker, lying without Gofforde Yard and also a tenement with a garden in Gofford Strete now held by John Heythe, weaver, and one other tenement in the bayley lane, of the yearly rent of 12 shillings.

A croft and gardens lying in a place called the Chamitory.

Two tenements and two gardens of twenty shillings a year lying in Cooke Street held by Robert Roodes, weaver, and Peter Sponer.

If Francis Talans died without lawful heirs the property was to go to the mayor and commonalty of Coventry and the profits were to be used for the repair of ways and bridges, the marriage of poor maids, and for the relief of the impotent and bedridden, aged, lame and poor of Coventry.

William Kechyn of Coventry, bucklemaker, appointed attorney to deliver seizin.