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 bebeaded, 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.

C.

Caldecote Hall, seat, 313; 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,

79.

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
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 religions
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-room,
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-

Compton-Murdak, 187; etymology of
name, and descent of manor, 187,
188; seat, chapel and grounds,
188.
Compton-Scorfen, 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,
80.

Coughton, manor and seat, 270; mo-

numents in church, ib.
Coventry, the number of acres con-
tained in the county of, 8.

"9 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, 101
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 bere, 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, 128-150; epi-
taph of Dr. Holland, 130; anec-
dotes of the same person, 130,
131; St. John's Church 151, 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

manor

manor-house noticed, 156; Spon
hospital, ib.; the Cross, 156, 157;
when built, 156; when entirely
removed, 157; the Walls, 157,
158; Babloke hospital, 158-160 ;
Grey Friars Hospital, 160, 161;
Freeschool, 161-163; Manufac-
tures, 163, 164; Canals, 164; 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-
ner, &c.) 168, 169; Sunday
schools, 170; members returned to
Parliament, and population of the
city, 170, 171; eminent natives,
171-178; Earl of Coventry,

F.

Farnborough, manor, descent of, and
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.

G.

Gaveston, Piers, beheaded on Black-
low hill, 221, 222.
Greathead, Mr. Bertie, anecdote,
220, 221.

Grevile, Lodowick, anecdote, 271.
Grove Park, 266.

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.

H,

Hampton in Arden, parish, 318,
Hartshill, the campus martius of the
Romans, 310; a tumulus enclosed
here, and a wrought s und,
ib.; birth-place of Michael Dray-
ton, ib.
Hatton, parish, 266; Hugh de Hat-
ton took a surname from this I rd-
ship, ib.; residence of Dr. Parr,
ib.
Hemlingford, hundred, 275-322;
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.

K.

Kenilworth, division, 33,-50; pa-

rishes in, 33.

town, ib.; circumstances
relating to previous to the Con-
quest, and at the Norman Survey,
ib.; weekly market first granted,
jb.;
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, $7; additions to the castle
by John of Gaunt, ib.; improve-
ments in the buildings by Robert
Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 57, 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-
rishes in, 183.

- 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,
Esq. 28; lime-works, ib.
Leamington Hastang, 93; descent of
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, 263.

Maxstoke, Priory, 317.
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.

N.

Nadbury Camp, 182.
Newbold Pacey, 223.
Newbold Revel, seat, 58.

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, 88, 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.

P.

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-
Polesworth, parish, 305; account of
merly here, 275.

nunnery, and notice of the ruins of
that edifice, 305, 306; freeschool,
306.

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 ou this spot, 218; descent of
property, and notice of building
and grounds, 218, 219.

R.

Radway, seat, 186.
Ragley Hall, seat, 269, 270; park
and plantations, 270.
Ratley, village, etymology of name
and notice of a fortification, 182.

Red Horse, the figure so termed, 186,

187; measurement of figure, 187;
supposed cause of designing the
figure; and lands beld by the ser-
Vice of cleaning it, ib.
Richmond, James, duke of, anecdote,

55.

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 aud
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, 73; a chapel
Z 2
intended,