Documents in the Coventry City Record Office used

A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 8, the City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1969.

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'Documents in the Coventry City Record Office used', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 8, the City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick, (London, 1969) pp. xxi. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/xxi [accessed 24 April 2024]

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DOCUMENTS IN THE COVENTRY CITY RECORD OFFICE

REFERRED TO IN THIS VOLUME BY THEIR CLASS NUMBERS

A. 1 Inquisitions post mortem
A. 3(b) Second leet book
A. 7 Chamberlains' account books
A. 8 Miscellaneous papers
A. 9 Account book of Cheylesmore manor
A. 12 Account books of charity loanmoney
A. 14 Books of orders and proceedings at council meetings
A. 16, 17 Books of municipal treasury payments and receipts
A. 21 Account books of guild and chantry property
A. 22 Account book of charity estates
A. 23 Tithe account books
A. 28 City annals
A. 30, 31 Survey and inclosure of lands in Stoke
A. 33 Constables' presentments
A. 34 'Burton's Book': copies of documents relating to the recovery of Cheylesmore manor by the Duchy of Cornwall
A. 36 Treasurers' account books
A. 37, 43, 48 City annals
A. 70, 78 Books of orders and proceedings at street commissioners' meetings
A. 83 Reports on the territorial extent of Coventry, 1839
A. 96 Certificate of musters, 1522
A. 99, 100 Account and minute books of mercers' company
A. 120 Catalogue of records in St. Mary's Hall
A. 133, 134 Quarter Sessions books
A. 144 Papers relating to vicars' rates
A. 156 Print (1816) of 1621 charter
A. 157 Accounts of cottage rents due to lord of Foleshill manor, 1816-1828
A. 158 Mayor's diary, 1818
A. 159 George Eld's accounts of farm at Hawkesbury, 1818-28
A. 184 Market house committee minute book
A. 185, 186 Market tolls committee minute books
A. 215 Copies of and extracts from documents relating to Coventry corporation v. Lythall and others, 1842
A. 216 Eld's statistical annals of Foleshill
A. 217, 219 Eld's notes on the boundary and history of Coventry
A. 231 Coventry election, 1865; inspectors' check book
A. 287 Reports, etc., relating to Coventry boundary extension, 1928
B. 1, 2, 13, 14, 40, 46, 65, 75, 81, 87, and 88 Original charters and letters patent, 12th cent.-1683, the contents of which are described in J. C. Jeaffreson, Cal. of Bks. & c. in St. Mary's Hall (1896), 17-38 passim
C. 2-222 passim Deeds, 12th cent.-1588, the contents of which are described in Jeaffreson, op. cit. 39-71 passim
E. 2 Copy of proceedings, 11 Edw. III, against the Prior of Coventry for recovery of land in Walsgrave-on-Sowe
F. 2 Indentures of apprentices
F. 6 Copy of royal warrant discharging corporation for property taken from Whitefrairs
F. 12 Acknowledgements of rent paid to Duchy of Cornwall for Cheylesmore manor, 1620-42