WARWICK CASTLE. 133 



I did not immediately return to town, 

 but, at the invitation of mine host, who 

 was a capital fellow, I remained nearly 

 a week, enjoying the salubrity of the air 

 in daily drives one day going to Warwick 

 Castle, whose tall keep and old walls, 

 with its galleries filled with portraits, 

 and its halls lined with ancient armour; 

 its extensive domain, as viewed from 

 the western front or windows, gives a 

 pretty good idea of what a feudal baron 

 was, and brings to recollection the deeds and 

 character of the last and most powerful of 

 that class, whose name is illustrious in our 

 history as the King-maker, and is the 

 subject of one of the best productions of 

 the best of novelists ; * the next day going 

 to Stoneleigh Abbey, then the seat of Chan- 

 dos Leigh, Esq., who was afterwards 

 ennobled by the title of Lord Leigh, 

 and still holds possession of one of the 



* " The Last of the Barons." 



