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- John Cop(e)land the elder of Bulkington, mercer, was survived by three daughters and a son: Hannah Copland of Wolvey, spinster; Mary, wife of William Slingsby of Bulkington, farmer; Elizabeth, wife of Randal Lea of Rugby, baker and John Copland the younger of Bulkington, mercer. John Copland the younger and his wife Elizabeth had one daughter, Ann, who died in 1745. Her paternal aunts were her co-heirs. John Copland the younger secured a mortgage of £100 from Patrick Simson of Coventry, gent., on a messuage and land in the Town Fields, Bulkington, 14 October 1737 (CR 715/398). Hannah Copland was infirm in body, and so conveyed (copy) her estate and interest to Randal Lea and his wife in exchange for £7 per annum for her life, 17 February 1746 (CR 715/399). Deed (copy) to lead to uses of a fine between Randal Lea and Elizabeth his wife, and Symon Knight of Rugby, surgeon, 14 January 1748 (CR 715/400-1). The deed was to break an entail relating to two-thirds of a messuage and land in Bulkington, two-thirds of a messuage occupied by Elizabeth Copland (his widow), and of another messuage. Randal Lea sold his share in the property to William Slingsby the younger of Combe, yeoman, for £255.13s.4d., 11-12 May 1755 (CR 715/402-3). Slingsby paid off earlier mortgages and secured a mortgage of £300 from Timothy Russell of Hopsford, Withybrook, grazier, on the property, 12-13 May 1755 (CR 715/404-6). Extract from the Bulkington Inclosure Award re the award to Elizabeth Copeland, widow, of 38a.2r.6p., 26 February 1771 (CR 715/407). Elizabeth Copeland secured a mortgage of £77 from Richard Carr of Marston Jabbett on the property, 26 February 1771 (CR 715/408). Endorsed that the mortgage was repaid, 10 December 1784. Will (attested copy) of Randal Lea, 10 June 1780 (CR 715/409). Refers to two-thirds of an undivided estate in Bulkington. Receipts for legacies from Randal Lea's will (their grandfather) from Peter Collis of Rugby, wheelwright, 27 July 1793 (CR 715/410); Martha Collis of Rugby, spinster, 18 July 1789 (CR 715/411); and John Collis of Rugby, labourer, 2 December 1790 (CR 715/412). Extracts from the Bulkington parish registers relating to the Copeland family, 1704-1782 (CR 715/413). Extracts from Rugby parish registers re Fanny Lea and Mary Collis (CR 715/414). A disagreement concerning the title to Elizabeth Copeland's land and a messuage in Bulkington arose between William Slingsby the elder of Bulkington, farmer (son and heir of the late William Slingsby and his wife Mary, and grandson of John Copland), his eldest son, William Slingsby the younger, a soldier in the Leicestershire Militia, Michael Cooper of Long Itchington, shop-keeper, and his wife Fanny (one of the daughters of the late Randal Lea and his wife Elizabeth, and a granddaughter of the late John Copland). An agreement was made to divide the land equally between them, and to sell the messuage and divide the proceeds equally, 5-6 March 1783 (CR 715/415-17). Cooper and his wife secured a mortgage of £400 from Grace Biggs of Wyken, widow, on the property, 17 July 1789 (CR 715/418). The mortgage, reduced to £300, was transferred by Mrs Biggs's executors to the executors of Joseph Cattell of Coventry, butcher, 15-16 November 1796 (CR 715/419-21). The mortgage, increased to £500, was transferred to the Rev. Richard Lickorish of Wolston, M.D., 20-21 August 1807 (CR 715/422-3). Cooper and his wife sold the property to John Johnson of Coombe Fields, grazier, for £1,380, and paid off the mortgage, 28-29 September 1821 (CR 715/424-6) - ref. CR 715/398-426 - date: 1737-1821

Thomas Eagle was arbitrator of a dispute concerning land in Bulkington affected by the Inclosure Act of 1771. He divided land in Bulkington [field names given] between William Jeffery of Bulkington, farmer, and Elizabeth Sheers of Attleborough, Nuneaton, and Mary Mawson of Monks Kirby, widow, 6 October 1798 (CR 715/357). Elizabeth Sheers and Mary Mawson sold an undivided third share in two messuages and various closes [named] in Bulkington, to James Price of Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer, for £31, 8 October 1798 (CR 715/358). Mary Mawson sold her undivided third share in the same property to Price for £109, 28-9 September 1801 (CR 715/359-60). Price secured a mortgage of £100 on an undivided third of the property from Thomas Overton of Long Itchington, miller, 28 June 1805 (CR 715/361). The mortgage was transferred from Overton (then of Coventry) and an additional £50 secured from James Moulton of Fernhill, Kenilworth, farmer, 9 June 1809 (362). The old mortgage had been paid off, but a new one of £280 from Moulton was secured on Price's two-thirds share, 6-7 January 1814 (363-4). Endorsed with receipts for payments of interest. Price transferred his interest in the undivided two-thirds to John Horsfall of Coventry, 15 January 1823 (CR 715/365). The consideration was £150 which Price owed to Horsfall on a stated account. Horsfall took over the mortgage. Lease missing. The £280 mortgage to Moulton was paid off by securing another mortgage of £300 from John Meigh of Coventry, currier, 28-29 October 1833 (CR 715/366-8). Meigh transferred the mortgage to John Johnson of Combe Fields, gent., 29-30 July 1838 (CR 715/369). Lease enclosed. One of the trustees involved died before the deed could be executed. The deed is endorsed with the transfer of his interest, 28 June 1841. Thomas Wood of Nuneaton, cordwainer, and Elizabeth his wife, and Thomas Goodyer of Bulkington, ribbonweaver, and Mary his wife, sold land and buildings in Bulkington to John Johnson for £694.10s.0d., 9-10 August 1839. Elizabeth and Mary were the only children and co-heirs of the late William Jeffery. Map of the estate by [Edward?] Phillips of Coventry, 1838, attached to back of deed. Endorsed that some of the property was sold off in 1903 (CR 715/370). Sarah Price, widow of James Price of Coventry, silkman, claimed to have a share in the property conveyed in CR 715/370. To remove doubts and satisfy her claims, she was paid £25 by Johnson, 12-13 August 1839 (CR 715/371). Estate agent's catalogue for auction of The Poplars Farm, Bulkington, Burton House Farm, Burton Hastings, and other property, 11 September 1917 (CR 715/372). Includes memorandum of sale of lots 1 and 2 to Philip Dewis of Bulkington for £6,800. Schedule of deeds relating to sale of P. Dewis's estate to David Phillips, 1924 (CR 715/373-4). It does not include the above deeds Miscellaneous papers relating to Johnson's purchase and the dispute re title with Mrs Price, 1826-1841 (see above, CR 715/357-71): Agreement between James Moulton and his son Thomas, also of Kenilworth, farmer, transferring to Thomas the mortgage of £230 secured on property in Bulkington, 6 May 1826 (CR 715/375); tenancy agreement of Richard Butlin of Bulkington, ribbon weaver, to Elizabeth Wood and Mary Goodyer for a messuage and land in Bulkington, annual rent £6, 16 March 1836 (CR 715/376); tenancy agreement between John Hurley of Bulkington, whitesmith, and Elizabeth Wood and Mary Goodyer for a messuage including whitesmith's shop in Bulkington, annual rent £8, 16 March 1836 (CR 715/377); pr. notice of auction of two undivided thirds in messuages and land in Bulkington, 14 June 1838, with notes of bids on reverse (CR 715/378); pr. notice that the auction advertised for 14 June 1838 is illegal inasmuch as the property belongs to someone else (CR 715/379); notice by Elizabeth Wood and Mary Goodyer to solicitors that they claim the property offered for sale by auction, 14

FILE - Deed to lead to uses of a fine (copy): Thomas Lea of Bulkington, yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife, wished to break an entail in their property. They conveyed the property to John Cooper of Hinckley, Leics., barber, 24 December 1773 (CR 715/344-5). The property included a messuage in Bulkington, and 10a. in Butt Field, Bulkington. Probate grant (copy) for Thomas Lees [sic] of Bulkington, gent., 29 March and 1 April 1791 (CR 715/346). Will (copy) of Bartholomew Starkey of Ryton, Bulkington, silkweaver and shopkeeper, 29 December 1815 (CR 715/347). Refers to property in Ryton. Probate grant (copy) for Thomas Rogers of Bulkington, farmer, 16 February 1825 and 12 August 1828 (CR 715/348). Bartholomew Starkey bequeathed a messuage and land in Ryton (after various life interests) to his nephews, John Starkey of Ryton, baker, and William Rowley of Foleshill. Rowley sold his share in the property to John Starkey for £200, 8 April 1859 (CR 715/349). John Starkey secured a mortgage of £200 from Mary Pridmore of Coleshill, widow, on the property, 9 April 1859 (CR 715/350). Starkey defaulted on payment of the mortgage and so Mrs Pridmore sold the property at auction for £240 to William Wringrose of Bulkington, draper, 1 April 1872 (CR 715/351-2) - ref. CR 715/344-52 - [n.d.]

- Joseph Mowe of Bulkington, carrier, secured a mortgage of £120 from Richard Morton of Coventry, fruiterer, on messuages (recently converted from a barn and others recently erected) in Bulkington, 25 April 1862. An additional £40 was added to the mortgage, 28 November 1862 (CR 715/333-4). Mowe sold the property for £200 to William Wringrose of Bulkington, grocer and draper. The mortgage was paid off to John Vine of Coventry, bailiff, executor of the late Richard Morton, 18 April 1871 (CR 715/335). Wringrose's executor, Thomas Parker of Catford, Kent, sold the property for £250 to Sarah Ann Brown, wife of Ebenezer Brown of Attleborough, Nuneaton, esq., 22 December 1902. Plan (CR 715/336-7). Samuel Heydon of Foleshill, ironfounder, and William Melling of Wigan, Lancs., engineer, transferred a mortgage of £700 secured on land adjoining the Town Street in Bulkington, three houses recently erected on it, and land in Sowe (Toones Pieces), to William Wagstaff of Attleborough, Nuneaton, butcher, 31 July 1864 (copy) (CR 715/338). Wagstaff sold 506 sq. yds including a cottage, in Bulkington for £67.10s. to William Wringrose (as above), 2 April 1870 (CR 715/339). Thomas Parker (as above) sold 506 sq. yards of land and two dwellings (formerly a cottage and a stable) for £100 to Sarah Ann Brown, wife of Ebenezer Brown of Attleborough, esq., 22 December 1902 (CR 715/340-1). Statutory declaration by Henry Dewes of Nuneaton, solicitor, concerning the estate of William Wringrose conveyed to Mrs Brown, 7 February 1903 (CR 715/342). The property comprised: 1. 506 sq. yards in Bulkington, adjacent to the Old Turnpike road; 2. four cottages in Barrets Lane, Bulkington, and four cottages and a weaver's shop in Town Street, now Chequer Street, Bulkington; 3. a messuage and factory in Town Street, Bulkington; 4. another four messuages in the Town Street, now Leicester Lane, Bulkington; 5. 892 sq. yards of land and two messuages in Ryton, Bulkington. 6. another three messuages in Ryton; 7. seven messuages in Ryton; and another two messuages in Ryton. See below for related Ryton deeds. Papers re sale (not further specified) from Mrs Brown to George Farndon, 1907 (CR 715/343) - ref. CR 715/333-43 - date: 1862-1907

Hannah Butler of Bulkington, widow of Obadiah Butler, sold property in Bulkington for £192.10s. to Francis Cashmore of Starton, Stoneleigh, yeoman, 1-2 December 1704. The property comprised a messuage, a cottage, and land (field names given) in Bulkington - ref. CR 715/456-7 - date: 1704

Bond between Thomas Fromond of Ryton, Bulkington, framework knitter, and Elizabeth Colledge of Long Lawford, widow, to John Taylor of Bulkington, blacksmith, for £30, 30 May 1692 - ref. CR 715/458 - date: 1692

Bond by Joseph Marvin of Bulkington, yeoman, to John Tayler of Bulkington, blacksmith, for £200 to perform the covenants of an indenture of the same date, 31 July 1697 - ref. CR 715/459 - date: 1697

John Taylor of Nuneaton, whitesmith (son of the late John Tayler of Bulkington, blacksmith), sold property in Bulkington to Samuel Beamish of Bulkington, cordwainer, for 10gns plus an annual rent of £10 for the life of Taylor, 26 September 1740. The property included a messuage in Bulkington and a quarter of a yard land. Will (C18 copy) of Samuel Beamish the younger of Bulkington, farmer, 16 June 1768. Letters of administration for the estate of Samuel Beamish the elder of Bulkington, yeoman, granted to Elizabeth Beamish of Bulkington, widow of S. Beamish the younger, 4 July 1768. Marriage settlement of Elizabeth Beamish of Bulkington, widow of Samuel Beamish, farmer, and William Carter the younger of Ryton, Bulkington, yeoman, 16 ?May 1771. Property settled included a messuage in Bulkington and 12a.2r. in Bulkington Common Field [doc. badly damaged by ?damp and therefore much illegible.] - ref. CR 715/462-6 - date: 1740-68

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