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from the grants which he made of lands, advowsons, &c., 
the expense of building the Monastery was defrayed. The 
funds of the Monastery being in a flourishing condition in 
the tenth year of Henry IIL, the Church was rebuilt, and 
in the twenty-first year of this reign (1237, A.D.), the King 
gave ten oaks from Kenilworth. As these were probably for 
the roof we may well reckon the date of this Church at 
1235-36, with which date the ornamentation and carving 
exactly agree. 
On leaving Nuneaton the party crossed the new branch- 
railway line in process of formation, and mounted the hill 
which consists of the lower strata of the carboniferous rocks, 
—the Millstone Grit. In following the line of road, several 
quarries presented themselves, and the party was fortunate 
in discovering, in more than one spot, the greenstone rock, 
On nearing Hartshill, especially, some large quarries 
presented a band some five or six feet in thickness, the effects 
of this trap upon the adjacent rock was in several places 
very apparent. 
At Hartshill the party visited the ruins of a medixval 
Manor House. As was the custom of the time, it was 
surrounded by a wall for protection, which remained 
tolerably perfect, with the “ xillets” for the Archers. 
The site seemed to have been taken advantage of, from a_ 
natural moat existing on two sides formed by two valleys. 
The Chapel was perhaps the only part worthy of much 
attention, but this, built on the north wall, was in ruins. 
It was very plain, but the style of the mouldings may very 
well agree with the first year of Edward the third’s reign, 
1327; when we have documentary evidence that John de 
