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but I was not then advised of it. This place may be 

 seen at the least twenty miles, I think, every way, standing 

 on a high hill, in the midst of a level. At Warwick T 

 staid several days, and lodged at Sir Henry Newton's at 

 the Priory ; and, in the mean time, went to St. Mary's, 

 the principal church, from the steeple whereof I had a 

 prospect of the town, which, for the bigness of it, is good 

 and neat, well built, and pleasantly situate, the body of 

 it in form of a cross, as most old towns are. In the 

 church is a very handsome choir, wherein they receive the 

 communion ; a large chapel, in which is a goodly brass 

 monument of one of the Beauchamps, who served King 

 Henry VI in the French wars ; also the monument of 

 the famous Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester ; and in a 

 little round place like a chapter-house, a marble monu- 

 ment of Sir Eulke Grevile's,* inscribed, " Fulke Grevile, 

 servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, 

 and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." I went then to see the 

 castle belonging to my Lord Brooke, who then lived in it, 

 and was in a consumption, and is since dead. There are 

 two noted towers, one called Julius Caesar's tower, and 

 another which stands higher, called Guy's tower, which 

 we ascended, and from thence had a prospect of the 

 country round about, where we noted Kineton and Kil- 

 lingworth castle, now almost quite demolished. I ne- 

 glected to see the rib of the dun cow, and Guy's sword. 

 I rode out a mile or more from the tovm to see Guy's 

 cliff, a house so called, on the bank of the river Avon, 

 where then my Lord Baltinglass did live ; there I saw a 

 little chapel or chauntry, wherein was Guy's statue, in the 

 just dimension, and a small grot in the rock, which they 

 call Guy's cave, in which he is reported to have shut 

 himself up and done penance. Here are butteries and 

 cellars cut out of the living rock. During my abode at 



* Sir Pulke Grevile, Lord Brooke. Mr. Walpole, in his ingenious 

 account of the royal and noble authors of England, and their works, has 

 given a character of this noble peer, and has made good use of the particu- 

 larity in his epitaph. — G. S. 



