Index
Æthelflæd, [9], [11], [44], [104]
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]
Hall, illust., p. [128], [179]
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]
Richard, [60], [63], [68]; tomb, [63]
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, [18]th, 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]
Burton Dassett, [31–2], [35], [199]
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]
Coventry, [21], [36], [38], [89]
architecture, mediæval, [104]
Bablake Hospital, [119]
Bablake School, [119]
Charter of Henry III., [94]
Churches—Benedictine Monastery, [105];
Grey Friars, [104];
Holy Trinity, [109];
St. Michael’s, [95], [105], [108]
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]
Dubritius, St., [44], [68], [70]
Dudley, Ambrose, [63]
John, [24]
Dugdale the historian and Warwickshire, [30], [155]
Dunchurch, illust., p. [25], [27]
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]
Godiva, Lady, [92], [107], [119]
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 VI”, [19], [95–6], [115]
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]
Kenilworth, [31], [118], [125–43]
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, Earl of, [16–17], [64]
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]
Plague, the, [101], [163], [213]
Plessetis, John de, [46]
Prayer, Earl of Lindsey’s, [33]
Priestley, Dr., [167]
Quaint customs of Warwick, [66]
Reform Bill, [39]
Religious orders, [18–19], [94]
Richard II., Play of, [95], [98]
Rivers, Earl, execution of, [97]
Roman Catholic religion and Shakespeare family, [215]
Roman occupation, [4]
remains, [7]
Roses, the Wars of the, [21]
Rous, John, historian, [68], [90]
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]
Shakespeare, William, [26], [120]
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]
portraits of, [222], [224], [238]
relics of, [223]
wedding, [217]
“Shovel Board”, game of, [193]
Siddons, Mrs., [69]
Snitterfield, [211], [212], [214]
Soho Works, Birmingham, [165]
Southam, [31], illust., p. [32]
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];
St. Sepulchre Priory, [53], [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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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
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