-the education of the deaf and dumb, ib.; Lench's alms-houses, 289, 290; theatre, 290; public library, ib; new library, ib. ; phi- losophical society, ib.; workhouse, prison, and barracks, ib.; trade and manufactures, a general notice of, 291, 292; officers regulating internal polity, 292, 293; court for the recovery of small debts, 293; market, 293, 294; eminent native, 294; the vicinity of Birmingham adorned by small allotments of gar- den-ground, and by many villas, ib. Blacklow-hill, the spot on which Piers Gaveston was beheaded, 221, 222; inscription commemorative of that execution, 222.
Blythe Hall, the former residence of
Sir William Dugdale, 315, 316. Bohemia, anecdotes of Elizabeth, Queen of, 52, 53, and 54, (note.) Boughton, Sir Theodosius, anecdotes of, 87, (and note.) Brailes, division, 177-181; parishes in, 177.
-, parish, 180. Brandon, remains of an ancient castle at, 57, 58.
Brinklow, village, 58; a castle for- merly here, ib.; traces of a Roman encampment, ib.; family of John Rous long resided here, ib. Bromley, secretary, anecdotes of, 47. Brownsover, village, birth-place of Lawrence Sheriff, 79; derivation of name, ib.; seat, ib. Burton-Dasset, division, 181-183; parishes in, 181.
" a village, 182; had, formerly, a market, ib.; contrary opinions on the effects of a former enclosure here, 182, 183.
Caldecote Hall, seat, $13; descent of property, and spirited defence of the house in the civil war, ib.; church and monuments, ib. Caludon, desolated seat, 67; descent of manor, ib.; the Duke of Norfolk lodged here previous to an intended
trial at arms, ib; few relics of the mansion now remaining, ib. Cave, Edward, anecdotes of, 78,
Charlecote, seat, 262; residence of the Lucy family, ib.; description of mansion, 262, 263; church and monuments, 263.
Charter House, near Coventry, 173, 174; an ancient Carthusian mo- nastery, 173; now the residence of Edward Inge, Esq. 174. Chesterton, remains of a Roman forti- fication there, 222; manor, by whom formerly possessed, 222, 223.
Cheylesmore, manor of, 154–156. Churchover, parish, remains of a tu- mulus here, 79, 80. Clopton-House and manor, 261; de- scent of property, ib.; notice of seat, 261, 262. Cogidunus, King of the Dobuni, rules
over a part of Warwickshire, 4. Coleshill, market town, 299; situa- tion and early history, ib. ; a castle formerly here, ib.; severe fate of a lord of this town, 299, 300; mar- ket and fairs, 300; church and monuments, 300, 301; foundation of school, 301; population, &c. ib.; affords the title of Viscount, ib.
Park, 301; mansion, long the residence of the Digby family, now entirely taken down, ib. Combe Abbey, seat of the Earl of Craven, 50; notice of the religious house formerly on this site, ib.; descent of property, 51; etymo- logy of name, ib.; general de- scription of building, 51, 52; cause of there being in this man- sion so many portraits of the Stuart family, 52; pictures in the great gallery, 53; in the ante- room, ib.; in the breakfast-roots, 54; in the north parlour, 54, 55; in the Vandyck room, 55, 56; in the yellow drawing room, 56; in the gilt parlour, 56, 57: in the beauty parlour, 57; in the cedar- room, ib.
Compton, Long, etymology of name, charter for market, and enclosure of land, 180.
Compton-Murdak, 187; etymology of name, and descent of manor, 187, 188; seat, chapel and grounds, 188. Compton-Scorfeu, the neighbourhood in which Sir Thomus Overbury was educated, 189. Compton-Wynyate, 177-179; ety- mology of name, 177; anecdotes of Compton family, 177, 178; no- tice of mansion, 179. Cornavii, or Carnabii, the ancient in- habitants of Warwickshire, 2. Coton House, seat, descent of pro perty and notice of the mansion,
Coughton, manor and seat, 270; ino-
numents in church, ib. Coventry, the number of acres con- tained in the county of, 8.
the county of the city of, 97-176; enumeration of places comprised in this county, 97; va- rious statistical particulars concern- ing, 97, 98.
- city of, 98; etymology of name, ib.; Roman coin and pave- ment found, 98, 99; and a marble figure, 99; situation of ancient town, and an early monastery here, ib.; monastery founded by Earl Leofric and the Countess Godiva, 99; great riches of that foundation, 100; death and burial of the Earl and Countess, 100, 101; a romantic tradition respect- ing the Countess Godiva, and an examination of that tradition, 201 104; a castle constructed on the south side of Coventry by the Earls of Chester, 104; this castle besieged, 105; annexation of the manor of Cheylesmore to the Earl- dom of Cornwall, ib.; the paving of the town commenced, 106; grants of Edward III. to the in- habitants, ib.; grants of Richard II. 106, 107; period at which the walls were completed, 106: an in- tended trial at arins in the reign of Richard II. 107-110; parliament at Coventry, 110, 111; visits of Henry VI. and Queen Margaret to this city, 111, 112; a memora- ble parliament held here, 112, 113; Earl of Rivers and his son be-
headed, 113; connexion of King Edward IV. with Coventry, 113, 114; Richard III. at Coventry, 114; and Henry VII. ib.; royal and other important visits in the time of Henry VIII. 114; re- duced state of Coventry, in con- sequence of the dissolution, 114, 115; visited by Queen Elizabeth, 115; impoverished state of the city in the reign of Elizabeth, 116; Mary Queen of Scots confined here, 117; King James I. visits Coventry, ib.; singular present made to the Princess Elizabeth, 118; transactions at Coventry dur ing the civil war of the 17th cen- tury, 118-120; King James II. at Coventry, 120; ecclesiastical history, extent of diocese, &c. 120 -122 (and note); notice of Co- ventry by Leland, 122, 123; pre- sent aspect and architectural cha- racter of the city, 123—125; church of St. Michael, 125-128; Trinity Church, 128-130; epi- taph of Dr. Holland, 130; anec- dotes of the same person, 130, 131; St. John's Church 131, 132; St. Mary's Hall, 132-143; County Hall, 143; Mayor's parlour, ib.; Draper's Hall, ib.; barracks, ib.; new goal, 143, 144; Priory, 144 -147; history of, 144-146; re- venues, when surveyed by order of Henry VIII. 146, 147; remains of building, 147; cathedral, 147, 148; remains of building, 148; episcopal palace, faint traces of, ib.; grey friars, 148-151; re. mains of the Grey Friars' church, 149; Corpus Christi plays per- formed by these friars, 150, and note: White Friars, 151-154; the monastery converted into a dwelling after the Dissolution, 152; a portion of the building now used as a house of industry, ib. ; remains of original edifice noticed, 152, 153; remains of the dwelling, 153; notice of the buildings for the use of the poor, ib. affairs of the house of industry, how managed, 153, 154; number of poor in house, 154; Cheylesmore, manor of, 154-156; some remains of the 2
manot-house noticed, 156; Spon
hospital, ib.; the Cross, 156, 157; when built, 156; when entirely
notice of seat, 181. Four Oaks Hall, 299. Four Shire Stone, situation of, 180. Fulbroke, parish, 264; park, former
castle in this enclosure, and descent of manor, ib.; Shakspeare suppos- ed to have taken deer from Ful- broke Park, 264, 265.
removed, 157; the Walls, 157, Farnborough, manor, descent of, and 158: Bablake hospital, 158-160; Grey Friars Hospital, 160, 161; Freeschool, 161-168; Manufac tures, 163, 164; Canals, 16+; civic government and charter, 164, 165; fairs, and an account of the Godi- va procession, 165-168; miscel- laneous occurrences, (city when first paved; inundation; woman burned to death in a peculiar man- mer, &c.) 168, 169; Sunday schools, 170; members returned to Parliament, and population of the city, 170, 171; eminent natives, 171-173; Earl of Coventry, 173.
Coventry, on the familar term sending to, 168, (note.) Craggs, Secretary, anecdotes of,
Craven, William, Earl of, anecdote, 53.
Dorer, Robert, anecdote of, 180, Dudley, Sir Robert, notice of, 45,
Dugdale, Sir William, memoirs of, 314, 315.
Dunchurch, village, 86; school, ib. ; almshouses, ib.; church, 86, 87; conspirators assembled in the neigh- bourhood of Dunchurch, 87.
Eatington, Lower, seat at, 189. Edgbaston Hall, 294; burned by the populace, ib.; present mansion, by whom erected, 295. Edgehill, battle of, 184-186; ex- tract from a curious pamphlet re- lating to the battle, 183, (note.) Evelyn, Sir George, W. A Shuck- burgh, anecdotes of, 96, 97. Exhall, village, 175, 176, Dr. Tho- mas, vicar of Exhall, 175; anec- dotes of that writer, 176.
Gaveston, Piers, beheaded on Black- low hill, 221, 222. Greathead, Mr. Bertie, anecdote, 220, 221.
Grevile, Lodowick, anecdote, 271.
Guy's Cliff, seat, 219; a hermit dwelt on this spot, ib. ; a chantry founded, 219, 220; description of seat, and of paintings by the late Mr. Greathead, 220, 221; chapel and statue of Earl Guy, 221.
Hampton in Arden, parish, 318, Hartshill, the campus martius of the Romans, 310; a tumulus enclosed here, and a wrought stone found, ib.; birth-place of Michael Dray- ton, ib.
Hatton, parish, 266; Hugh de Hat- ton took a surname from this lord- ship, b.; residence of Dr. Parr, ib. Hemlingford, hundred, 275-592 ; enumeration of divisions, 275. Henley, division, 271–275; parishes in, 271.
Henley in Arden, town, 272; ety. mology of name, and early history, ib,; market, fairs, and paving, ib.; gild and hospital, 272, 273; chapel, 273; cross, ib.; population, &c. ib.
Herdwick, hamlet, 93; anecdotes of the Herdwick family, 93, 94. Hewel Grange, seat, 271, (and note.)
Jago, Richard, a native of Beaude- | Lawford, (church) village, 88. sert 273, 274.
town, ib.; circumstances relating to previous to the Con- quest, and at the Norman Survey, ib.; weekly market first granted, ib.; castle, 34; notice of the founder of the structure, ib.; Si- mon Montfort besieged in the cas tle, 35, 36; a tournament held here in the reign of Edward I. 36, 37; King Edward II. a prisoner here, 57; additions to the castle by John of Gaunt, ib.; improve- ments in the buildings by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 37, 38; Queen Elizabeth entertained here, 38-40; extracts from a survey of the castle, made in the reign of James I. 40, 41; the building in- jured in the time of Cromwell, 41; present state of the ruins, 42.
monastery, notice of its foundation, 33, and 42, 43; state of the ruins, 43. Kineton, hundred, 176-223; di visions of, 176.
—, Division, 183-189; pa-
Town, ib.; situation of, and etymology of name, 183, 184
(Little) 87; a mansion of the Boughtons formerly here, ib.; melancholy catastrophe, ib. (and note;) residence of J. Caldecote, Leamington Hastang, 93; descent of Esq. 88; lime-works, ib. manor, ib.; almshouse and hospi tal, ib.; seat, ib..
Priors, the Spa of War wickshire, 48-50; distance from the chief towns in this county, 48; a salt spring here, mentioned by Camden and Dugdale, ib.; other springs discovered and analysed, ib.; Benjamin Satchwell instru mental in bringing the waters into notice, ib.; number of baths in a part of the year 1812, 49; synop tical table of substances contained in the two springs, 49; assembly- room, news-room, theatre, &c. ib.; duration of the season, ib.
Lucy family, anecdotes of, 262, 265.
Merevale, seat, 311; remains of mo- nastery, 311, 312.
Meriden, parish and seat, 321, Middleton, manor, 306; seat, ib. Milcott, hamlet, 270; site of manor-
house, 270, 271; Lodowick Gre- vile pressed to death, 271. Monks- Kirby, village, 58; probably a place of entertainment for Ro- man troops, ib.; an alien priory founded here, and an historical no- tice of that foundation, 58, 59. Moxhull, 299; descent of property and notice of seat, ib.
Nadbury Camp, 182. Newbold Pacey, 223. Newbold Revel, seat, 53. Newnham Padox, seat, 59; various names by which this estate has been distinguished, ib.; descrip- tive notice of the mansion and grounds, ib.; a pillar erected by Basil, Earl of Denbigh, ib.
Regis, 88; etymology of name, ib. church desecrated, ib.; bath at Newnham Regis once of much celebrity, 85, 89. Newton, birth-place of Edward Cave, 78; anecdotes of Mr. Cave, 78, 79.
Nuneaton, market town, 312; monas- tery of a peculiar order founded here, ib. ; remains of the monastic building, ib.; church, and free school, ib.; manufacture and popu- lation, 312, 313.
Offchurch, village, 47, 48.
- Bury, seat, 48.
Oldbury, 309; a seat, occupying the area of a castrametation, ib.; curi- ous wrought flints found here, ib.; notice of a small camp in the vici- nity, 309, 310.
Olton, a village supposed to have for-
merly been the residence of the barons Limesie, 317. Ostorius Scapula constructs forts on the banks of the Avon, 3.
Packington, Great, 321; mansion, ib.; church and Forest Hall, 321, 322.
Peeping Tom of Coventry, his legend noticed, 166, (note) Pindley, or Pinley, a nunnery for- merly here, 275. Polesworth, parish, 305; account of
nunnery, and notice of the ruins of that edifice, 305, 306; freeschool, 506. Pooley Hall, 304; descent of pro- perty, 304, 305; notice of mansion,
305. Priory, a seat near Warwick, 218, 219; a priory of St. Sepulchre for- merly on this spot, 218; descent of property, and notice of building and grounds, 218, 219.
Radway, seat, 186.
Ragley Hall, seat, 269, 270; park and plantations, 270. and notice of a fortification, 182. Ratley, village, etymology of name 187; measurement of figure, 187; Red Horse, the figure so termed, 186, supposed cause of designing the figure; and lands held by the ser- vice of cleaning it, ib. Richmond, James, duke of, anecdote,
Roman stations in Warwickshire, a general notice of, 4. Rugby, division, 65-90; parishes in, 68.
town, probable derivation of name, 68; general description of the town, ib.; a castle formerly here, 68, 69; grant of market and fair, 69; school, by whom founded, ib.; limitation in regard to boys admissible on the foundation, 69 (note) endowment, 70; great in- crease in the value of property belonging to the school, 70, 71; trustees, 71, (note;) exhibitions, 71, 72; the ancient school-build- ings noticed, 72; an account of the new structure, 72, 75; a chapel intended, Z 2
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