Index
Alfred the Great and Warwickshire, 11
Ancient manor–houses, 174–201
Aragon, Catherine of, 98
Arden, Mary (Shakespeare’s mother), 212
“Arden, The Black Dog of”, 71
Armada, Warwickshire and the, 25
Augustinians, the, in Warwickshire, 18, 127
Bacon, Francis, 213
Baddesley Clinton, 174–9
Barnet, battle of, 97
Barons’ War, 16–17
Baskerville, John, printer, 167
Beacons, 199–200
Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick, illust., p. 57
Beauchamp, Guy de, 71
Thomas, the first Earl of Warwick, 60
Thomas, the second Earl of Warwick, effigies of, 59
Berington, Joseph, 167
Bermingham, De, 156
Bidford, 245–7
Bridge, illust., p. 224
Billesley, 244
ancient buildings, 168
Birmingham benefactors, 171
Boulton, Matthew, 165
Burne–Jones, Sir E., 169
Churches—St. John’s, Deritend, 169;
cotton–spinning machinery introduced, 165
early fame for metal work, 159–60
Free Grammar School of King Edward VI., 158
Leather Market, 160
Leland’s description (1538), 158–9
“Lunar Club”, or “Soho Circle”, 166
in mediæval times, 158
modern, 171
name, origin of, 154
population at various periods, 163
Public Buildings, 171
Roman Catholicism, 170
sack and burning of, 36
situation, 157
Soho Works, famous, 165–7
streets, first paved, 161
trade in 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, 164–8
the Plague, 163
Watt, James, 165
Black Canons, 127
Bolingbroke, Henry, at Gosford Green, 95
Bonaparte, Napoleon, portrait of, 69
Boughton, Richard, 23
Boulton, Matthew, and the “Soho”, Works, 165
Brooke, Lord, 30
Browning, Mrs., and Warwickshire scenery, 2
Burne–Jones, Sir E., and Birmingham, 169
at time of Civil War, 31
Beacon, 199
Butler’s Marston, 32
Camden’s description of Warwickshire, 159
Cantilupe, family of, 242
Canute ravages Warwickshire, 12
Castle, Brandon, and the “Barons’ War”, 16
Catesby, Robert, and the “Gunpowder Plot”, 26
Charlecote, 21, illust., p. 233
Charles I., 29
at Edge Hill, 32
Charles II., 103
Chineworth or Kenilworth, 129
Civil War, 102
War in 1642, 64
Clopton family, 235
Compton family, the, 190
Compton Wynyates, 189–201
Corn Laws, repeal of the, and Birmingham, 40
Cornavii in Warwickshire, 4
Cornelias Bungey, martyr, 25
Cotton–spinning, 165
Coughton Court, 27, illust., p. 16
architecture, mediæval, 104
Bablake Hospital, 119
Bablake School, 119
Charter of Henry III., 94
Churches—Benedictine Monastery, 105;
Grey Friars, 104;
Holy Trinity, 109;
constitution of Municipal Corporation, 94
county of, 96
Fair, 94
Feast of St. George, 97
festivals, 99
foundation, 89
Godiva, legend of Lady, 90
Guilds, Religious and Trade, 99
Coventry, “Hock Tuesday”, 99
in Domesday Book, 93
letters from Royal personages, 118
Mary Queen of Scots at, 101, 118
“Mysteries”, 143
origin of name, 89
pageants, 98
Peeping Tom, 92
population in Domesday Book, 94;
in 1510, 98
portraits of Royal personages, 117, 119
Priory, 96
Queen Elizabeth’s visit, 99
statues of Royal personages, 114, 115
the Civil War, 102
the stocks, 113
visit of Henry VI., 115
walls and gates, 94
Cromwell, Oliver, and Civil War, 33, 35
Cropredy and Civil War, 31–2
Cucking stool, 60
Cumnor Place and Amy Robsart, 135
nomenclature, 11
settlement, 11
Darwin, Dr., and Birmingham, 167
Dickens at Leamington, 153
“Dombey and Son”, and Leamington, 153
Domesday Book, 15, 93, 146, 157, 203
Drayton, Michael, 2
Dudley, Ambrose, 63
John, 24
Dugdale the historian and Warwickshire, 30, 155
Earthquake (1085), 18
Edward III. and Coventry, 94
Edward the Confessor, 15
Elizabeth, Queen, 54, 99, 118, 216
Elizabeth’s, Queen, visit to Kenilworth, 131–4
Essex, Lord, 30
Evans, Mary Ann, 187
“Everyman”, the “mystery”, play, 99
Fawkes, Guido, family history of, 27
Ferrers, family of, 175
Fisher family, the, 180
Sir Robert, 31
Fosse–way, 5
George IV. at Leamington, 150
Glover, Robert, martyr, 25
Gosford Green, execution of Earl Rivers on, 97
Great Frost, 213
Greatheed, Bertie, and Guy’s Cliffe, 68
Greville, Sir Fulke, and Warwick Castle, 60, 73–4
Robert, 30
Grey Friars, 94
Grey, Lady Jane, 24
Gunpowder Plot, Warwickshire and the, 26
Guy’s Cliffe, 67, illust., p. 64
Hampden, John, at battle of Edge Hill, 34
Harold and Warwickshire, 13
Hathaway, Anne, 217;
cottage of, 240;
house of, 239
Hathaway’s House, 224
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, at Leamington, 145
Henley–in–Arden, 249, 251, illust., p. 4
Henry IV. and Coventry, 95
Henry VIII., 98
and the Duke of Buckingham, 191, 193
Hillborough, 244–5
“Hungry”, Grafton, illust., p. 208
Hwicci, 4
Icknield Street, 246
James I., 74
and Coventry, 102
at Compton Wynyates, 196
James II. at Coventry, 103
Kemble, Sarah, at Guy’s Cliffe, 69
Castle—best approach, 136;
in Dudley’s time, 131;
Queen Elizabeth visits, 131
Church, 126
in Domesday Book, 129
name, origin of, 128
Priory, 127
situation, 125
Kineton and the Civil War, 32
“King Maker”, the, 21–2
Kingsbury and the Mercian Kings, 9
Lancaster, Henry of, and Coventry, 21
Landor, Walter Savage, and Warwick, 58
Leamington, 144–53
and Abbotts, Dr., 149
in Domesday Book, 146
George IV., visit of, 150
hunting at, 151
name, origin of, 146
Nathaniel Hawthorne on, 145
Parade, illust., p. 112
population of, 145
Public Gardens, 152
Ruskin, John, on, 151
Satchwell, Benj., poet, 149
situation of, 144
Spa, 148
Victoria, Princess at, 151
Leicester’s Hospital, Warwick, illust., p. 48
Lewis, Mrs. Joyce, martyr, 25
Lindsey, Earl of, strange prayer of, 33
Little Wolford, 201
Manor–House, illust., p. 160
Long Itchington, 30
Long Marston, 37
Lord Compton, illust., p. 169
Lucy, Sir Henry, death of, at battle of
Northampton, 21
Macready on Leamington, 150
Margaret, Queen, at Coventry, 115
Mary Queen of Scots at Coventry, 101, 118–19
Maxstoke, Castle of, 181–7
Mediæval architecture, 104, 181
Merevale Abbey, 18
Monasteries, 19
Monastic institutions, 98
Montfort, Henry de, and Barons’ War, 17
Simon de, and Barons’ War, 16
Mowbray, Thomas de, 95
Murdock, William, inventor of gas lighting, 167
“Mysteries”, or sacred plays, 99
Mytton’s Jack, exploits at Leamington, 153
Nash family and Shakespeare, 224
Neville, Richard, 21
Newburg, Henry de, and Warwick Castle, 45
Newburgh, John de, 45
Oken, Thomas, 59
Packington Hall, 179–80
“Parliamentum Diabolicum”, 96
Parr, William, 60
“Peeping Tom”, illust., p. 73, 92
Plessetis, John de, 46
Prayer, Earl of Lindsey’s, 33
Priestley, Dr., 167
Quaint customs of Warwick, 66
Reform Bill, 39
Rivers, Earl, execution of, 97
Roman Catholic religion and Shakespeare family, 215
Roman occupation, 4
remains, 7
Roses, the Wars of the, 21
Royalists, 31
Rugby School, illust., p. 240
Rupert, Prince, 30, 33, 34, 36
Ruskin, John, and Leamington, 151
Salford Priors, illust., p. 9
Satchwell, Benjamin, Leamington’s poet, 149
Saxon nomenclature, 13
Saxon occupation, 14
remains, 14
Scott, Gilbert G., R.A., 111
Scott, Sir Walter, 126, 128, 135
Seckington, 9
Secret hiding places, 176, 197
Shakespeare, John, 211, 212, 214
arms and motto of, 216
birthday of, 211
birthplace of, 211, 219–26, illust., p. 185
character pictures, 238–9
death of, 219
early life of, 216
memorial buildings, 237
relics of, 223
wedding, 217
“Shovel Board”, game of, 193
Siddons, Mrs., 69
Soho Works, Birmingham, 165
St. John, Knights of, 55
Stocks at Coventry, 113
Stoke, 96
Stoneleigh Abbey, 18, illust., p. 105
Stratford–on–Avon, 202–40, illust., p. 201
almshouses, 231
ancient architecture at., 210, 226, 229, 231
benefactors of, 206
bridges, 208
Celtic remains at, 203
Clopton, Sir Hugh, and, 208
fires at, 210
first record of existence, 203
Grammar School, 231
Guild Hall, 229
Guild of the Holy Cross, 207, 227
Hathaway’s house, 224
Holy Trinity, Church of the, 204, 231
incorporation of, 209
in Elizabethan times, 209
Market Cross, 223
markets and fairs, 205–6
Shakespeare’s birthplace at, 219–26
Shakespeare’s Museum, 223
Shakespeare’s property, 218, 221, 223
Tamworth, 9
Tangye family and Birmingham, 181
Tewkesbury, battle of, 97
Thornton, John, glass maker, 115
Tudor Rose, crest of, at Compton Wynyates, 191, 196
Turchill, Earl of Warwick, 45
Tysoe villages, 32
War of the Barons, 16–17
Warbeck, Perkin, 23
ancient buildings and relics, 48
Churches, etc.—Beauchamp Chapel, 57, 62;
John the Baptist, 56; St.
Helen, 56;
St. James, 48;
St. John’s Hospital, 55;
St. Lawrence, 56;
St. Michael, 56;
St. Peter, 56;
cucking stool, 62
Danish invasion of, 44
fair established 13th century, 46
fire (1694), 57
Guild of St. George, 49
history and romance of, 43–69
municipal history of, 47
origin of, 43
Picts and Scots and, 44
Priory, 18
ramparts, 67
size at Norman conquest, 44
Warwick Castle, 67, 70–88, illust., p. 41
art treasures of, 79
besieged by Royalists, 74
Cæsar’s Tower, 72
“Guy’s Porridge Pot”, 78
James I. entertained at, 74
origin, 70
property of Crown, 73
Queen Elizabeth entertained at, 73
Royalty entertained at, 74
Shakespeare relics at, 85
“Vase”, 86
Warwick, “the King Maker”, 21–2
Warwickshire monasteries, 19
and the Civil War, 36
and the Danish occupation, 11
and the Saxon occupation, 14
compared with Derbyshire, 1
historical associations of, 4
in the Domesday Book, 15, 93, 146, 157, 203
in Roman times, 5
in Saxon times, 8
origin of name, 4
Shakespeare’s allusions to, 3
villages, 241–54
Watt, James, and Birmingham, 165
Wedmore, Treaty of, 11
Whipping Post at Coventry, 113
White Friars, 94
Withering, Dr., and Birmingham, 167
Wormleighton, 32
House, 31
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