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eight years after this event a monument was erected to his 
memory, of. which the following account. is given by Dr. 
Thomas, in his edition of “ The Antiquities of Warwick- 
shire... &.,”’ published in 1730:—‘On the ground, in 
the churchyard there lies the statue of a man booted, and 
spurred, and in his armour, leaning his head on. his 
right hand, over which, upon four pillars, there was set 
a large. marble tombstone, which is now removed: into 
the Chancell, and hath this inscription. upon. it :—‘ Here 
lyeth ez =pecting ye second comeing of our Blessed Lord 
and Saviour, Henry Kingsmill, Esq.,. second son to Sir 
Henry Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, in the County of South- 
ampton, Knt.; who serving as a Captain of Foot under 
his . Mate, Charles the First of blessed memory, was at 
the Battell of Edge Hill, in ye year of our Lord 1642, 
as he was manfully fighting in behalfe of his King and 
country, unhappily slain by a Cannon bullet. In Memory 
of whom, his mother, the Lady Bridget Kingsmill, did 
in the forty-sixth yeare of her widowhood, in the year 
of our Lord 1670, erect this monument.” I have fought a 
good fight, I have finished my course, henceforth is 
laid up for me a crown of righteousness.’ No portion 
of this monument is now existing in the Churchyard at 
Radway, but in the Church is, or was a few years ago, 
preserved the interesting reclining but mutilated effigy, 
for the helmet,legs, feet, and left hand are gone, exhibiting 
the Royalist as attired in trunk hose, a buff coat, a scarf 
crossing from the right shoulder to the left thigh, and 
a loose falling cravat about the neck. The latter shews 
the change in fashion between 1642 and 1670, and the 
sculptor has taken his notion of military costume from 
that existing at the time this monument was erected 
rather than that of the time when the cannon bullet 
proved fatal. I need hardly add that this effigy, though 
mutilated, and of a comparatively late period, is, in 
my opinion, one of the most interestizg in this. county. 
As such, I have had it drawn and engraved by a competent 
artist. I have endeavoured to take a chronological view 
of affairs, and there is still enough matter, subsequent 
to this battle, relative to the civil wars in this county 
to form a subsequent paper. The so-called battle of 
Birmingham, the attacks on Compton House and Aston 
_ Hall, the fortification and arming of the Castles of Warwick 
and Tamworth and the principal mansion houses, in this 
county, the movement of troops, the names of those of 
