Catalogue description Lease for a Year

Whereby, in consideration of 5/- each, Charles Palmer (of Coleshill, Warws., gent.), John Dale (of Coleshill, mercer) and Thomas Madeley (of Coleshill, gent.), surviving trustees for messuages hereinafter described, convey to the Rt. Hon. Edward, Earl of Digby, (Baron Digby of Sherborne, Dorset), the Hon. Rev. Robert Digby, (vicar of Coleshill), Rev. William Bree, Rev. Robert Sadler, William Woods (surgeon), Richard York, William York, Joseph Underhill, Robert Brown and James Denstone (gents.), all of Coleshill, (a) a cottage (comprising two dwellings) with two gardens (intended for widows), plus four messuages built on part of the gardens at Pinfold Oak at the upper end of Coleshill; (b) Coleshill school house in the churchyard (now occupied by Rev. John Davies as master); (c) a cottage, little mowing ground and orchard near Cole Bridge called "Bridge", "Hartells" or Hesterby's Meadow" part whereof was exchanged by the late William, Lord Digby for a parcel belonging to the free school at the end of Blyth Lane (formerly held by Thomas Cox), all lately occupied by Joseph Cole and John [I] Eaves, now by John [II] Eaves; (d) a messuage (extending 20 ft [6 in.] east-west, 9 ft. south-north), formerly occupied by -- Allen but now by --, on the east side of Broadgate, Coventry (between John Hollier's house on the north-east and a messuage once belonging to Richard Palmer, glover, on the south); (e) a toft lately occupied by -- Allen, now by --, extending 54 ft. from east bank to west, in breadth at the west bank 12½ yd., at the middle 12¾ yd., at the east bank 9½ yd., in St. John's St. in Coventry's suburbs beyond Bishop's Gate (between land formerly occupied by the Drapers' Company on the east, St. John's St. on the west, land formerly William Remmington's but now Job Hammer, esq. 's (in the right of his wife) on the north, and land formerly Sir William Jesson's on the south; (f) a Coleshill messuage near the town wall lately occupied by Joseph Chesterton but now by William Rathbone; (g) another Coleshill messuage with garden and orchard now occupied by George Baker and others; (h) a messuage, garden and orchard belonging to (g) in Gilson, in the same parish, once occupied by John Davies but now by John Earpe; (i) a messuage lately in Mayou's tenure but now John Rowes' (its barn and hempleck occupied by Edward Glasscock; (j) land at the end of the heath, with a meadow near Marston Culey. (lately occupied by Job, now by widow, Duckett); (k) allotments allocated to the school's trustees at enclosure in exchange for dispersed lands, viz. (i) a plot adjoining Marston Green (2r. 23p., bounded east by George Hopper's ancient enclosure of "Brook Meadow" but on all other sides by the water-course dividing Coleshill and Bickenhall lordships), formerly occupied by Henry; Windridge but now by George Burton; (ii) a plot on Coleshill heath, now two closes (6a. 3r. 30p., bounded north-east by the Marston Green to Coventry road, on part of the south by Bickenhall Lordship, on the rest of the south and part of the west by a small ancient enclosure (ut infra) called "Wood Meadow" (occupied hitherto by Henry, Lord Digby), and on the rest of the west by "School Rough" (held by William Hammon); (iii) an ancient parcel of meadow (la. Or. 32p., lately occupied by Samuel Prime, since by Job, and now by widow, Duckett, bounded north by "School Rough" and elsewhere by Bickenhall lordship); (iv) a former rickyard (bounded north and east by lands allotted to the trustees at enclosure, south by Bickenhall lordship, and west by School Rough, (k) (ii) and (k) (iii), heretofore belonging to Henry, Lord Digby but ceded at enclosure for "Clay Pitts" and "Whites Meadow"), (v) a plot (now several) in South Field, Coleshill (covering 15a. 2r. 35p. exclusive of roads, bounded on part of the east by an enclosure allotment made to Edward Palmer (and by him exchanged), on the rest of the east by an allotment made to Henry, Lord Digby for an open field estate, on the south by an allotment made to John Mayou and William Millhouse, on part of the west by the Coleshill to Coventry road, on parts of the north and west by an allotment made to Gustavus Brooke, on the rest of the west by an allotment made to John Cross, and on the rest of the north by the ancient enclosure of "Glovers Moore" held successively by John [I] and [.I] Mayou); (vi) a plot in Grimshall Field, Coleshill (2a. 2r., bounded north-east by the Coleshill to Gilson road, south-east by an enclosure allotted to John Mayou, on the south by an allotment made in lieu of tithes, and on the north-west by an allotment made to Thomas Jacques, jun. (with Thomas Edkins as lessee)) now held by John Barker; (vii) another plot in Grimshall Field (covering 4a. 3r. 3p. excluding roads, bounded north-east by the Coventry to Lichfield turnpike, south-east by an enclosure allotted to Sarah Leake, south-west by the Coleshill to Water Orton road, and elsewhere by an allotment allocated to Henry, Lord Digby) now tenanted by John Eaves; (viii) a plot in "Longfurlong Field", Coleshill (covering 14a. 3r. lp. excluding roads, bounded on the east and part of the north by an ancient enclosure lately Henry, Lord Digby's, but now Mary Linforth's, on another part of the east by that portion of the Coleshill to Water Orton road called Gilson Lane, on the rest of the east and part of the south by a close allotted to Thomas Davis, on the rest of the south by "Brickiln Lane", on the west by an allotment (ut infra) enclosed but exchanged by Henry, Lord Digby with the school trustees for "Clay Pitts" and "White Meadow", and on the rest of the north by another of Henry, Lord Digby's enclosure-allotments; (ix) a plot in Long Furlong, Coleshill (measuring 2a. 2r. 34p.) allotted to Henry, Lord Digby in exchange for "Clay Pitts" and "White Meadow" (bounded east by (k) (viii), south by Brickiln Lane, west and north by other allotments made to Henry; Lord Digny - (k)(viii) and (ix) together total 17a. lr. 36p. (sic) and were sometime joined, but now the two pieces are divided into five, lately occupied by John Davies but now by John Earpe; (x) a plot of Rye Croft in the South Field, Coleshill (3r. 13p. excluding roads, bounded north-west by Sarah Mason's allotment, east and south-east by an allotment apportioned to the vicar in lieu of glebe, west by an ancient croft (ut supra) with which (x) is occupied by T. Davies); (xi) a plot in Blyth Field (consisting of 2a. 1r. 4p. excluding roads, bounded north by the Coleshill to "Shustock" [Shustoke, Warws.] road, east by [(k) (xii)] and on the south and west by an allotment granted to the vicar in lieu of tithes; (xii) a plot in Blyth Field (2a. 2r. 12p., bounded east by the River Blyth, south by an allotment made to the vicar, west by (k)(xi), north by the Coleshill to Shustoke road) allotted to the vicar in lieu of glebe but exchanged by him with the school trustees for "Stavenger Croft" - (k)(xi) and (xii) together measure 4a. 3r. 16p., are united, and belong to J. Davies as schoolmaster (with John Dale as tenant); (xiii) a plot occupied by Thomas Forshaw) covering la. 2r. 16p. in Grimshill Field (bounded north-east by the Coleshill to Lichfield turnpike, south-east by an allotment reserved to Jacob Bullock (now Charles Palmer's), south-west by the Coleshill to Water Orton road, and north-west by an allotment made to George Bague and Sarah Leake) assigned to the school trustees instead of the "Pater Noster Dole" meadow; (1) "the Shaw" with the Lichfield turnpike one one side and the "Wash Croft" on the other (lately held by T. Davies, now by J. Earpe); (m) a rent-charge of 4/8 p.a. arising from Lord Digby's farm in Coleshill called "the Farm", "Bows Farm" or "Knowles Farm"; (n) a 13/4 p.a. rent-charge from Lord Digby's land on Corley Moor [, Warws.] (once tenanted by Thomas Cox); (o) the 13d. p.a. rent-charge upon a Coleshill messuage successively inhabited by -- Glover, Richard Harrison, Rev. John Mieres and (now) William Woods; (p) a 1/8 p.a. rent-charge accruing from "Masons Meadow", Little Packington [Warws.] (erstwhile in the successive occupations of Swift and Stone); (q) the 12d. rent-charge yearly issuing from "Moor Meadow", Coleshill pa., held formerly by Gustavus and John Brooke seriatim; (r) a 2/- p.a. rent-charge upon Coleshill almshouse; (s) a 2/4 p.a. rent-charge from a Coleshill cottage formerly Thomas Gibbs' but now the Earl's; (t) another rent-charge (6/8 p.a.) upon a messuage and land at Bacon's Inn (owned by Lord Digby but occupied by Widow Lees); (u) a 3/4 p.a. rent-charge arising from seven doles in Elmdon Meadow, Warws., successively belonging to Ann Kittermaster, widow, John Baylis and (now) Squire Knight - the enclosure commissioners reported that (n) to (u) were found appointed to charities; (v) a 20/- p.a. rent-charge from "Coppice Meadow", Alcott, Coleshill (belonging to John Taylor, esq., tenanted successively by John Greenway and Job and Widow Fletcher); (w) the yearly rent in silver (worth 4d.) benefitting the school and paid for the land leading to land (at enclosure formerly John Mantall's) adjoining "Butlers Field", Coleshill; (x) all other property whereby Palmer et al are seized or wherein they are interested, to the charitable use of the school (and other uses) in Coleshill and Coventry, subject to all chief rents due to the Earl of Digby as Lord of the Manor of Coleshill.