images embossed, of lords and ladies in divers vestures, called weepers, to stand in housings made about the tomb, those images to be made in breadth, length, and thickness like unto xiv. patterns made of timber. Also he shall make xvIII. less images of angels, to stand in other housings, as shall be appointed by patterns, whereof Ix. after one side and IX. after another. Also he must make an hearse to stand on the tomb according to a pattern; the stuff and workmanship to the repairing to be at the charge of the said Will. Austen. And the Executors shall pay for every image that shall lie on the tomb, of the weepers so made in latten, xiiis. ivd. And for every image of angels so made vs. And for every pound of latten that shall be in the hearse xd. And shall pay and bear the costs of the said Will. Austen for setting the said images and hearse." The total cost of the monument was 1781. It appears by no means clear from the mention made in the covenant of the "models of timber," whether Austen was the designer of the figures as well as the caster. It is most probable, however, he was both, as we know the early founders and sculptors in metal usually were: the artist being seldom in early times dissociated from the workman. Be it as it may, he is the only claimant for this figure, which is, in England at least, unequalled by any other of that age; and many good judges, Flaxman among others, have thought it not surpassed by the productions of any of his more famous Italian contemporaries. Besides its high merit as a work of art, it is considered to afford the finest example of the armour of that period. It may be remarked that "John Prudde of Westminster, glazier and

painter on glass," who was to prepare and set up the chapel windows, "in the finest wise, of the best, clearest, and strongest glass of beyond the sea, and no glass of England, and of the finest colours," was, in like manner, with Austen, to cause all the paintings to be done "according to patterns on paper to be delivered by the executors."

There are several other monuments in this chapel, and some of them of interest. One is to the Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Elizabeth ; this is a very splendid monument, but inferior to Beauchamp's; it is also an altar-tomb with a recumbent statue on the top. A memorial to his wife the Countess of Essex is just by; and also a mural monument to his son, "the noble Impe Robert of Dudley, Baron Denbigh," as the inscription has it. Fuller says, 66 women are most delighted with the statue of the infant baron," and so they remained despite of all changing fashions, by which they are slanderously reported to be so much affected. Another fine altar-tomb and statue is that of Ambrose Dudley, brother of the Earl of Leicester. All these, as well as the chapel, are largely decked with the famous crest,

"The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff.”

In the church is a handsome marble monument to the ancestor of the present Earl of Warwick. It has no statue, but around its sides an inscription of the noblest kind:-" Fulke Greville, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counciller to King James, Friend to Sir Philip Sydney." He was also the friend of lesser men:" His merits to me ward," says Stow, "I do acknowledge, in setting this

hand free from the daily employments of a manuel trade, and giving it full liberty thus to express the inclinations of my mind, himself being the procurer of my present estate." A more elaborate account of St. Mary's church than has yet been published is understood to be in preparation by the Warwick Archeological Society, and will no doubt, from the abundance of the materials, be of much value.

There are some curious gate-houses in the town, the upper part of one of which is now used as a school-room; it formerly served as a church. Another old building originally belonged to the United Brethren of the Guilds of the Blessed Virgin and of St. George the Martyr. At the dissolution of all such religious establishments, in the reign of Henry, it was first given to Sir Nicholas l'Estrange, and afterwards became the property of the Dudley family. Queen Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester, from piety or ostentation, converted it into an hospital for twelve impotent or infirm men, to be selected from Warwick, Stratford, and one or two other towns, preference being given to soldiers, and there was to be also a master, who was to act as chaplain. The endowment has so greatly increased in value, that it has been found sufficient to support twenty-two brethren with salaries of 80l. per annum, and to raise the master's salary to 4007. per annum. The building has been so enlarged and altered as to retain but little of its original appearance. * The other buildings are of the kind usually seen in a

*There are a few old half-timber houses of elaborate construction that must not be overlooked in rambling through the streets.

county-town: there is a market-house, a town-hall, with a county-gaol adjoining to it, and a bridewell opposite; large inns; and a grammar-school.

The stranger will of course visit Leamington, about a mile and a half on the other side of the Avon. It is an entire contrast to Warwick, which, with its castle and church, with its gorgeous monuments, and its old houses, has quite the air of an ancient town; while Leamington, with its pumprooms and baths, its long streets of fresh smart lodging-houses, its assembly-rooms and Jullien concerts, is as thoroughly modern.

THE whole course of the Avon through Warwick Park, somewhat more than two miles, is exceedingly beautiful. The park is plentifully wooded, and broken into dell and upland; art has been called in to impart a more cultivated air to the wild graces of nature, and her aid has been judiciously afforded. Features lovely in themselves have been adorned and embellished, but not rendered formal, nor has their original character been refined away. From near the end of the park, just beyond the large lake that has been formed on the left of the river, a fine view is obtained of the grounds and distant castle.

The scenery is rich and diversified all about this part of the county, and the Avon winds through some of the choicest of it. Barford is the first village by which the river flows after it quits Warwick Park. Shortly before reaching it, the stream is broken by an islet or two, and a mill is worked by it, forming in combination a pleasing picture. Barford is a long and somewhat tedious village, without anything of any kind worth looking at twice. It may be avoided altogether by taking the road through Sherbourne, which is more agreeable in itself, leads past pleasanter places, and is more convenient for the river. Past Barford, on the same side, there is a very pretty village, called Wasperton, where the Avon is joined