New guide. An historical and descriptive account of Warwick and Leamington. Abridged from a larger work [An historical and descriptive account of the town and castle of Warwick, by W. Field].1816 |
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Page 50 - BACON (SiR NICHOLAS), lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of queen Elizabeth, descended from an ancient and honourable family in Suffolk.
Page 89 - ... pluck one of them by the whiskers. The attempt succeeded for several days ; but, on the fifth day, Rubens observed such signs of anger as created serious alarm, and induced him to advise the keeper to desist from the dangerous attempt in future.
Page 163 - On the restoration of Charles II, the estate and ruins of the castle were granted to Lawrence, Viscount Hyde, of Kenilworth, second son of the celebrated Lord High Chancellor, created Baron of Kenilworth, and Earl of Rochester ; and by the marriage of a female heiress descended from him, passed in 1752, into the possession of Thomas Villiers, Baron Hyde, son of the Earl of Jersey, who was advanced in 1776, to the dignity of the Earl of Clarendon ; hi the possession of whose son it still remains.
Page 83 - His pictures are generally clear in all their parts, with a beautiful transparence ; and it is observed of them, by several writers, that he possessed the art of relieving his lights by other lights, without employing deep shadows, and yet produced the intended effect in a very surprising manner. That method of practice, it is thought, was derived from an observation communicated to him by...
Page 23 - once distinguished" says Leland, " as the residence of many Jews," — and a little beyond, is a large and ancient mansion, still retaining marks of its former grandeur. It was originally the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, founded in the reign of HENRY II. by WILLIAM Earl of Warwick, intended for the reception of the houseless poor, and the wandering stranger. This institution had however, from some unknown cause, ceased to exist, even prior to the general dissolution ; at which time the estate...
Page 172 - ... assistance in his business at home. It seems pretty well ascertained that he followed the same business for some years; and before the age of 19, he married Anne Hathaway, daughter of a substantial yeoman, of Shottery, about a mile from Stratford. By her, he had first a daughter, and then a son and a daughter, twins, all born before he was out of his minority. Soon after the birth of his twins, an unhappy affair obliged him suddenly to relinquish his business, and his home. In a youthful frolic,...
Page 52 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 163 - I. -r and by him it w;is granted to CAREY Earl of Monmouth. BUT the melancholy fate of this mighty and majestic structure, for so many ages the seat of baronial and even royal grandeur, was now fast approaching. During the civil wars, it was seized by CROMWELL, and given to some of his officers ; whose rapacious hands left it — what it now is ! They dismantled the towers, beat down the walls, destroyed the park, tore up the woods, drained the lake, and divided and appropriated the lands. After...
Page 15 - Subscriptions for the relief of the wretched inhabitants were immediately set on foot at Coventry, Birmingham, Worcester, and other places ; and further relief was speedily obtained, by means of briefs,' from all parts of the kingdom. The town was afterwards rebuilt, by Act of Parliament, in a more commodious and handsome form, partly of freestone, from the rock, on which it stands. This calamity, therefore, as in many other similar instances, however dreadful at the time, has greatly contributed,...
Page 92 - The atrocity of the father's nature was rebated in her by the mother's sweeter inclinations; for (to take, and that no more than the character out of his own mouth) HE NEVER SPARED MAN IN HIS ANGER, NOR WOMAN IN HIS LUST.