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Guy’s Cliffe, two miles north of Warwick, is pleasingly 
described in Camden’s “ Britannia,” written in 1586 :— 
“ Hard by the River Avon standeth Guy Cliff, the very seat itself 
of pleasantnesse. There have ye a shady little wood, cleere 
and cristall springs, mossy bottomes and caves, medowes 
alwaies fresh and green, the river rumbling here and there 
among the stones with his streame making a milde noise and 
gentle whispering; and, besides all this, solitary and still 
quietnesse, things most gratefull to the Muses. Heere, as 
the report goes, that valiant knight and noble worthy, Sir 
Guv of Warwicke—so much celebrated after he had born the 
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brunt of sundry troubles and atcliieved many painful exploits 
—built a chapell, led an eremit’s life, and in the end was 
buried. Howbeit, wiser men doe think that the place took 
that name of later time by far, from Guy Beauchamp, Earle 
of Warwicke ; and certain it is, that Richard Beauchamp, 
Earle of Warwicke, built St. Margaret’s Chapell heere, and 
erected a mighty and giant-like Statue of Stone, resembling 
the said Guy.” 
Warwickshire in Later Times. —During the sixteenth 
century many most interesting buildings were erected in 
Warwickshire, including Pooley Hall, near Tamworth; 
Weston Park, Sliipston-on-Stour; Wormleighton ; the Ley- 
cester Hospital, at Warwick, &c. Aston Hall (1618) is a fine 
Elizabethan mansion standing in a northern suburb of 
Birmingham, and now the property of the corporation. 
At the opening of the seventeenth century we find a 
Warwickshire man—Robert Catesby—acting as the proposer 
of the “ Gunpowder Plot;” and quite lately it has been shown 
that the famous—or infamous—Guy Fawkes himself hailed 
from our county. Catesby was born at Bushwood Hall, 
Lapworth, and it is believed that the details of the plot were 
arranged there and at Norbrook, Clopton (near Stratford), and 
Coughton (the seat of the old Roman Catholic family of the 
Tlirockmortons). The Princess Elizabeth was then residing 
at Combe Abbey, near Coventry ; and the local conspirators 
arranged a hunting match at Dunsmore, near Duncliurch, for 
the 5th of November, intending, as soon as they heard of 
the success of the Plot, to carry off the Princess and proclaim 
her Queen of England. When the news of the arrest of 
Guido Fawkes arrived, the conspirators fled into Staffordshire, 
where they were pursued and captured at Holbeacli, Catesby 
being shot dead in the attack. 
The Civil War in Warwickshire. —The first battle 
between the Royal and the Parliamentary forces was fought 
in 1642, on the plain below Edgehill, near Kineton, in the 
