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Hmentrj. scription, or scroll, addressed to the Countess, in the fol- Inhabited houses, 3*48' 



^^ "V""^ lowing words : Families that occupy them, 4096 



Houses building, 12 



» I Luoricke, for the love of thee, Uninhabited houses, 50 



Do make Coventry toll free. » _ ... , , : . , .__ 



r amines employed tn agriculture, 123 



Others assert, that Leofric, repenting of his fasti and Ditt0 in trac!e » manufactures, &c. 3207 



indecent proposal, commanded every one of the inhabi- Families belonging to neither of these classes, . 766 



tants to ietiie from the streets and fronts of the houses Males, 8197 



during the progress of the lad}', under pain of death; but Females, , 9726 



that one curious person contrived to have a glance at the Total population, 17,9&£ 



naked countess, from which he obtained the name of 



Peejvng Tom of Coventry, and the honour of a statue in The county of the city of Coventry includes the parish- 



the act of looking from a window in one of the streets. *;S of Anstey, Exhall, Foleshill, part of Sow, StivichaH, 



It is certain, however, that this event is annually com- Stoke, and VViglien, and also the hamlet of Keresley. 



memorated by a procession, in which the naked figure of 1,le following abstract of the population of this county 



a woman is paraded through the streets on horseback. is aIso taken fr° m the returns for 1811. 



In the last edition of Cambden's Britannia, by Gough, 



there is inserted a dissertation by Di Pegge, to prove Inhabited houses, J 1196 



that this is a mere legendary story," resting on no historical Families that occupy them, 1265 



document. Houses building, * 2 



In the reign of Edward III. the citizens weve allowed Uninhabited houses 44 



to build an embattled wall of stone around the city, for Families employed in agriculture, 290 



which they had a grant of six years toll on the "wine, Ditt0 in tiacle > manufactures, &c 851 



malt, oxen, hogs, calves, and sheep, consumed within Families belonging to neither of these classes, . 125 



the city. The first stone of this wall was laid in 1355, Males, 2554 



and it was afterwards completed with great strength and females, . . 3310 



magnificence, being defende 1 by 32 towers and 12 gates. Total population, , 5864 



Great part of the wall, most of the towers, and several of Tne united population of the city and county of 



the gates, were ordered to be demolished in 166*1, by Coventry is < 23,787' 



Charles II. as a punishment for refusing admittance to 



Charles 1. in 1 6 12, and adhering to the parliament du- For more am P le accounts of the antiquities, and the 



rinw the civil war. ecclesiastical and civil history of Coventry, Dugdale's 



Henry IV. held a parliament at this place in 1404, Warwickshire, Gough's edition of Britannia, and Pen- 



which old historians denominate parliametitum buloctorum, nant ' s Journey from Chester to London, may be consult- 



because all persons learned in the law were expressly ex- e "* ( KK ) 



eluded from seats, or because its acts were considered by COUGH. See Mebicive. 



the clergy, the historians of the age, as hostile to their COULAM, or Covalam, the Colis or Colias of the 



interests and immunities. Another parliament held here ancients, is a small town of Hindostan, situated on the 



in 1459, by Henry VI. was called parliamenlvm diaboli- western side of Cape Comari. The ruins of the fortress, 



cum, because of the numerous attainders it passed against which formerly belonged to the Imperial East India Com- 



the adherents of Richard Duke of York. pa'i.Y at Ostend, are now the retreat of a multitude of 



Previous to the Norman conquest, the diocese of Litch- snakes. A great number of very beautiful shells are cast 



field and Coventry included Chester, and after that event on shore here by the sea. The principal productions of 



the see was removed to Chester. In the reign of Wil- the place are millet and salt, the latter of which may 



Jiam Rufus, the see was again restored to Coventry, where De collected by the Christians as well as by the Pagans, 



the bishops had a palace, no vestige of which now re- the former of whom are very few in number, while the 



mains. At present the residence of the bishop is at town abounds with Mahometans. 



Litchfield, and Chester is a separate bishopric. In the On the sea-coast between Coulam and Sadras, are si- 

 king's books, the bishopric of Litchfield and Coventry is tuated seven temples, which are reckoned masterpiece* 

 rated at L.2800 yea*r!y. of ancient Indian architecture, being cut out of the hard- 

 The population of this city was returned as 16,034 est rock, in a mountain covered with trees. The entrance 

 persons, of all ages and both sexes, in 180 1, under the fronts the sea, and is excavated from the solid rock, which 

 authority of parliament, though former calculations led forms part of the summit of the mountain. It is 20 Roman 

 to an estimate beyond 20,000, and some have even com- palms broad, and 1 5 high, and has its sides covered with 

 puted the number at 25,000. It is said to have contain- the figures of various sacred animals as large as life,such as 

 ed 15,000 in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII.; the elephant of Rama and Gannesha, the tortoise of Vish- 

 but to have suffered so severely by the dissolution of its nu, the ape of Rama, the wild sow into which Vishnu me- 

 priory and monasteries, as to have been reduced in the tamorphosed himself, the cow of the goddess Parvadi and 

 reign of Edward VI. to 3000 ; but, by an exact enumc- Lakshtni, the fish as the symbol of water, the snake as 

 ration taken in 1520, and recorded in the city leet book, the symbol of life and death, and various other animals, 

 the population was then 7000. About 3000 of the in- At th:^ end of this passage there is a small round place 

 habitants are free burgesses, having votes in the election in the same rock, where there is seen on the left a few 

 of two representatives to parliament. stone steps, anil on the right two passages, also cut out 

 The following abstract of the population of the city of of the rock, each of which were about seven pa!m» bioad 

 Coventry is taken from the recent returns for 1811. and twelve high. These steps and passages conducted 



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