magistrate was exemplary, and most beneficial to his neighbour hood. The improvements of canal navigation, and every other work connected with the interest of the county of Warwick, met with judicious patronage from his hand. In manners Sir Roger Newdigate was the true English country gentleman of the aucient school; simple, benevolent, and urbane. He died, at Arbury, beloved by his equals and respected by every dependant, in 1806, at the age of 88; and was interred at Harefield in Middlesex.

At a short remove from the park pales of Arbury is a farm called Temple House. The building was surrounded by a moat, and in the front are the remains of a lofty pointed window. Attached to the Newdigate estate is a non-descript extent of manor, termed the manor of St. John of Jerusalem, for which the present proprietor regularly deputes a keeper,

ALLESLEY PARK, lately the residence of Lord Clonmell, and at present that of the Rev. J. Neale, is two miles on the north west of Coventry. This manor is not mentioned in Domesday as at the time of that survey it was considered a member of the city of Coventry. At an early period it was vested in the family of Hastings, who had here a spacious residence, traditionally termed a Castle. "There still remains," writes Dr. Thomas, " a peer of an ancient castle, which seems to have been doublę moated about; in the innermost moat was found a well, steined about with stone five foot deep, which, being cleansed, proves an admirable spring, and serves the house and offices. By the side of the well there was a stone trough, with five several holes with

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mention. In 1806, the Vice Chancellor received from Sir Roger the sum of twenty guineas, with a request that it might be given as a premium to an undergraduate, who had not exceeded four years from the time of his matricu lation, for the best composition in English verse, not extending beyond fifty lines, to be recited in the theatre, after the other prize compositions, at the next commemoration. The subject prescribed was A Recommendation of the Study of the Ancient Remains of Grecian and Roman Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting.

bits of leaden pipes in them, which formerly conveyed the water five several ways." This well is yet open, and the masonry

which surrounds it constitutes the sole remain of the ancient edifice. The modern mansion is a respectable instance of the order of buildings in which internal accommodation is studied in preference to arrangement of outward features. The chief front has a central compartment, slightly projecting, with a pediment and vacant tympanum in the upper series. The church of Allesley, a pleasing Gothic building, with a low square tower from which springs a modest spire, was originally a chapel belonging to the priory of Coventry.

CALUDON was, likewise, originally a member of Coventry, and was afterwards possessed by the Earls of Chester. By Ralph, the last Earl, it was given to Stephen de Segrave and his heirs, to hold by the service of" a sore-sparhauk" yearly. The estate continued with the Segraves till the extinction of the male line of that family, and afterwards passed, by marriage, to the Mowbrays. John de Segrave, in the 33d of Edward I. obtained leave to fortify his house here with a moat, and to surround it with embattled walls. It was in this castellated mansion that Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, lodged previous to the intended combat between himself and the Duke of Hereford, in the time of Richard II. From this spot he commenced his advance to the place of military trial," on a horse barded with crimson velvet, embroydered with lions of silver and Mulbery trees (his Rebus, allading to the name of Mowbray !)" Few relics are now to be seen of the embattled residence connected in so interesting a way with the legends of a chivalric era. The property is vested in the Lords Clifford; and, about forty years back, the father of the present Lord acceded to the wish of a farmer his tenant, and built for the agriculturist a convenient house from the venerable remains. One fragment of a massy wall, and some traces of the moat, yet exist for the gratification of the curious. On the inner part of this fragment are the remains of two pointed windows, now stopped up.

RUGBY DIVISION

contains the following Parishes, Townships, and Hamlet :-Bilton; Bourton upon Dunsmoor, with the tything of Draycot; Brownsover; Churchover; Clifton; Cosford (Hamlet); Dun church, with Toft; Frankton; Hill-Morton; Lawford, Church; Lawford Little (Township); Lawford, long (Township); Newbold upon Avon; Newnham Regis; Newton and Biggin (Township); Rugby; Ryton upon Dunsmoor; Stretton upon Dunsmoor; Thurlaston; Willoughby; Wolston, with Marston.

The town of RUGBY is situate near the eastern border of the county, and is distant about thirteen miles from Coventry, and sixteen from Warwick. The name of this town is written Rocheberie in Domesday, and the place was so called, according to Dugdale, from Roche a rock or quarry of stone, and Berie, a court, or habitation of note. This derivation appears simple and explicit, and agrees tolerably well with the circumstances of the town; for there is a quarry of stone in the close neighbourhood, and the elevated spot on which the town stands has, probably, a similar stratum at no great depth. But, in the Dictionnaire Celtique, the appellation is said to be of Celtic origin, derived from Ruc, a river, and Bye, a town. This explanation will also 'fairly suit the local circumstances of Rugby, for the river Avon waters meads at no great distance from its streets. Very shortly after the compilation of Domesday, the name was written Rokeby, and that mode of orthography prevailed through several centuries.

This town is seated on a healthful and pleasant eminence, and consists of various clean and cheerful, but ill-paved, streets. At the time of the Conqueror's survey, it appears to have been a place of little note, and it made few advances towards affluence and celebrity, till a period not far remote from the present. A castle was constructed here, as is supposed in the reign of Stephen; but if conjecture be right in bestowing the date of the

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