Catalogue description Assignment of remainder of a 21 years' lease granted in 1771 by trustees or feoffees to...

Assignment of remainder of a 21 years' lease granted in 1771 by trustees or feoffees to Edw. Freeman, alderman, deceased, of a house in Cross Cheaping on e. side, theretofore in tenure of Edw. Bott, apothecary, by Will. Freeman, executor of late lessee to Ch. England and Jas. Lloyd.

Sign., etc., of parties. Witn., John Stewart, Rob. Shilton, jun.

The occupation of the people of the city, ribbon-weaver (DR429/332), watchmaker (DR429/331) have become familiar by the end of the eighteenth century; but a cork cutter's (DR429/330) must have been a rare calling. The seventeen-nineties were troublous years in Coventry, for the leaven of the French Revolution was beginning to work; but a large meeting held in the County Hall, under George Howlette, mayor (DR429/336), protested its loyalty to George III. Repreasive political action was taken under Pitt, bread rose to famine price with the continuance of the War with France, and in 1795 a brand-riot in Coventry was put down by the military. The Women's Market (DR429/336), a brick-pillared shed, was pulled down in 1867. There is a drawing of it in "Troughton Sketches." In former days farmers' wives sat there and sold butter, eggs and poultry at the Friday market.