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ideas of cLivalric hardihood, and unpolidied baronial pride. 

 The grand fuite of apartments extends in a right line 333 

 feet, and are furiiidied in a chafte but magnificent manner. 

 They contain many fine and intcrefting pidlnres, and in a 

 gallery is fome curious armour, painted glafs, and other an- 

 cient relics. The park attached to the caille is very ex- 

 tenfive, and finely ornamented with wood and water. The 

 gardens and pleafure-grounds are arranged with great taile ; 

 and a broad gravel-walii conducts to a green -houfe, a fpa- 

 cious building, ercCted purpofely for the reception of a 

 large antique vafe, which is confidered as one of the nobleft: 

 fpecimens of ancient art now in England. It is of white 

 marble, and is of a circular form, fufficiently capacious to 

 hold 163 gallons^ it is placed on a fquare pedellal, and is 

 made to move round by means of a mortife and tenon. 

 This exquifite antique was fjuni (as a Latin infcription 

 ftates) at the bottom of a laice, not far from Adrian's villa, 

 near Tivoli, about twelve or fourteen miles from Rome : it 

 wa3 firft purchafed by the late fir William Hamilton, of 

 whom it was bought by the late earl of Warwick, and con- 

 veyed to England at his expence. In Britton's " Archi- 

 teftural Antiquities," are two views of the caille, with a 

 particular hillory and defcription of the edifice. 



In the vicinity of Warwick, on the north, Hood the 

 Priory of St. Sepulchre, founded by Henry de Newburgh, 

 earl of Warwick, in the reign of Henry I. It was de- 

 figned for a foeiety of regular canons, inltituted in imitation 

 of one of the fame order, eftablilhed at the holy fepulchre 

 in Jerufalem. In the 38th of Henry VIII., the building 

 and adjacent lands were granted to Thomas Hawkins, the 

 fon of a perfon who fold filh at the market-crofs in War- 

 wick. The ancient edifice was then pulled down, and the 

 prefent ehgible refidence was ercfted. 



About a mile and half from Warwick, on the north-eaft, 

 is Guy's Cliff, an ancient hermitage, and traditionally faid 

 to be the retirement of the celebrated champion Guy of 

 Warwick. It is now the leat of Bertie Greathcad, efq. 

 diftinguilhed by his mental and moral qualities, to whom a 

 tribute of refpeft is due by all wlio have the bono ar of his 

 acquaintance. The capacious ilables, cellars, and out- 

 houfes, are formed by excavations in the folid rock. 



About half a mile from Guy's Chff is Blacklow Hill, 

 rendered memorable by the fummary execution of Piers 

 Gavellon, earl of Cornwall, the favourite of Edward II. 

 in 131 2, on this fpot. 



Myton, a fliort dillance from Warwick, was formerly a 

 confiderablc village, but in the time of Dugdale, " there 

 was no more left than a grove of elms, in the place where 

 the village flood." It has now one houfe, a modern ftruc- 

 ture, called Myton Houfe. 



At a fmall dillance alfo from Warwick, on the Stratford 

 road, is Longbndge Houfe, tlie feat of William Staunton, 

 efq. — Dugdale'a Hiltory and Antiquities of Warwickihire. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xv. Warwickdiire. By 

 J. N. Brewer, 1814. 



Wakwic.k, a town of the ftate of Rhode ifland, in the 

 county of Kent, containing 3757 inhabitants ; 7 miles S. of 



Providence Alfo, a county of Virgniia, containing 1S35 



inhabitants. — .\lfo, a to.vn of Virginia ; 6 miles S. ot Rich- 

 mond Alfo, a lowu of Virginia, and capital of a county, 



eflablifhcd in 1628 ; 65 miles E.S.E. of Richmond. N. lat. 

 37° 8'. W. long. 76 30'. — Alio, a town of MalT.ichuletls, 

 in the county of Hamplhire, containing i 227 uihabiLiiits ; 80 



miles W. of Bollon Alio, a pofl-townlhip of New York, in 



Orange county; 120 miles S. of Albany, and 10 miles E. of 

 Golhen : its form is triangular ; its area may be 110 fquare 

 miles : the S. part is broken by ranges of lulls, in which are 



feveral large ponds that run 8. to the PufTaic of New Jerfey : 

 the N. part, which is lefs broken, is w.itered by the Walkill 

 and other llreams that run N. to the Hudfon, in Orange and 

 Ulller counties. Few towns have a greater quantity of 

 fruit, and the apple-orchards are very Heic. Here are five 

 places of worfhip and fixteen fchool-houles ; nine grain- 

 mills, ten faw-mills, fix carding-machines, and fixteen dif- 

 tilleries of fruit-fpirits. Here are a furnace, feveral forget, 

 an anchor-fhop, being the oldell in America, tliat of Rhode 

 ifland excepted, and a lleel-furnace. The village of War- 

 wick, in which is the poll -office, 1 1 miles E. of Golhen, 

 has two houfes of worlhip, and about thirty dwellings. 

 Florida village is fitnatei 4^ miles N. of Warwick : it 

 has a church, an academy, and about thirty dwelhugs ; and 

 Amity in the W. has alio a church. The whole population 

 in 1810 was 3978, when there were 323 electors. — Alfo, a 

 townfhip of Peiinlylvania, in the county of Bucks, contain- 

 ing 1287 inhabitants. — Alio, a townlhip of Pe.i.ifylvania, 



in Lancaller cou:ity, containing 3439 inhabitants .\\[o, a 



poll -town of Maryland, on the eall ihore of Cuciz^ak. bay; 

 14 miles S. of Elkton. 



Warwick'j, Earl of, Powder. See Scammony PoWDER. 



WARWICKSHIRE, an inland county of England, 

 is fituated near the centre of the kingdom. In form it ap- 

 proaches to an oval ; and is bounded on the S.E. by the 

 counties of Oxford and Northampton ; 011 the N.E. by the 

 great Roman road termed Watling-llreet, which feparates 

 It fiom L'-icellerfliire ; on the N.W. it is limited by Staf- 

 fordfhire j the county of Worceller lies on the W. ; and 

 part of Gloucellerlhire on the S.W. The greatell length, 

 from N. to S., is 51 miles; and the greatell breadth, from 

 E. to W., is 36 miles ; the circumft-rence being about 150 

 miles. It forms an area of 9S4 fquare miles, or 639,760 

 acres; of which about 154,530 acres are in a conllaot 

 courfe of tillage; 190,000 acres are arable, and 300,000 in 

 pallurage. 



Civil and Ecclefiajlkal Divifions : Population. — When 

 Domelday-book was compiled, this county contained ten 

 hundreds ; a circumllance which feems to prove the con- 

 fequence and great population of the dillrift at that period. 

 Thefe hundreds did not exill long under the names men- 

 tioned in that roll ; btit though they fluftuated in title, the 

 number for fome time remained nearly the lame. There 

 are now only four hundreds ; Barlichway, Hemlingford, 

 Kineton, and Kniglitlow, which are fubdivided for conve- 

 nience into eighteen parts. The citv and countv of Coven- 

 try, though forming a dillncl politically dillinCt from War- 

 wickihire, is ufually coiifidertd as a filth hundred. War- 

 wickihire, thus conllituted, contains a half city, Coventry ; 

 one borough, Warwick ; and eleven other market-towns, 

 viz. Alcelier, Atherllow, Birmingham, Colelhill, HeiJey, 

 Kineton, Nuneaton, Rugby, Southam, Str.itford-on-Avon, 

 and Sutton-Colfield ; togetlier with part of the town of 

 Tamworlli. The whole county comprehends 193 parilhes. 

 According to the population return of the year 1811, the 

 number of houfes was 46,157, of inhabitants 228,735 ; 

 wz. 109,539 males, """^ 119,196 females: 15,131 families 

 were Hated to be employed m agriculture, and 29,775 in 

 trade and manufaClures. Six members are returned to the 

 imp rial parliament; two for the Ihire, two lor Coventry, 

 a. id two for the town of Warwick. This county is com- 

 piifed III the province of Canterbury, and 111 the diocefcs of 

 Lichfield and Coventry, and of Worceller ; it is included in 

 the Midland circuit. 



/Inticnt Stale: Hijtorical Events. — Warwickihire was one 



of the (\\c counties which, at the time of the Roman inva- 



fioii, were poflelTed by the Coniavii or Carnahii. Mr. 



J I Whitakcr, 



