Catalogue description Lease and Release

Whereby, having recited:- firstly, a covenant (23rd. Feb., 1816) whereby, having rehearsed (a) that Joseph Miller (in 1818 described as of Kingsbury, Warws.) and Hannah his wife (through the latter's being the daughter of Elizabeth (wife of Roger Vice, late of Kingsbury, labourer, and aunt and heiress of William Watts of Coventry, builder, deceased)) were seized, inter alia, of a moiety of the messuages described hereafter, and that William Farnell (in 1818 of Birmingham, Warws., brassfounder) was seized of the other moiety qua heir of Ann Farnell his late mother (E. Vice's other daughter), and (b) that the Millers and W. Farnell and his wife Elizabeth agreed to levy a fine on the tenements, therefore the Millers and W. and E. Farnell promised to execute such a transaction with Joseph Barnes (of Coventry, builder) to the successive uses (as regarded one moiety) of H. Miller and her husband for life of the survivor, and of the Millers' children as tenants in common, and as concerned the other moiety, to the use of W. Farnell for life, and of his heirs; secondly, that a final concord was levied in the fifty-sixth year of George III (no term given): therefore, in consideration of £975 (paid by Thomas Hayes (of Coventry, victualler) to J. Miller and E. and W. Farnell) and of 5/- each (paid by William Gilbert (of Coventry, maltster) as Hayes' trustee to the same recipients), H. Miller (with her husband's assent) appoints her moiety to Hayes and Gilbert, and W. Farnell likewise assigns his moiety: in consideration of a further 5/- each, Edward Inge (of Charterhouse, Coventry, esq.), the Millers and W. Farnell release to Hayes and Gilbert (a) a messuage with stables called the "Red Lion" (occupied by Hayes on the north-west side of Greyfriars Lane), (b) a tenement behind (a) (occupied latterly by Francis Challenor, -- Mason and others, now by William Cooley and another) and (c) a malthouse in the "Red Lion"'s yard (held recently by William Watts, deceased) together extending from Greyfriars Lane to Hertford St. (bounded north by the latter) subject to a 20/- annuity for buying 2 doz. [loaves] distributed yearly by the churchwardens and overseers of St. Michael's among the poor of Spon St. and Broadgate Wards on 30th. Jan.