by Castiglione; the Angels appearing to the Shepherds, by Bassano; and a copy of the Madonna and Child, by Raphael, in the Dresden Gallery. The view from the window of this room is highly picturesque. In the Vestibule are Venus and Adonis by Ritscher; a Landscape by Ruysdale; Christ and the Woman of Samaria by Sebastian Ricci; and a painting by the younger Mr. Greatheed, already alluded to, having for its subject the Discovery by Atabualpa of Pizarro's Ignorance of Reading and Writing. In the arcade to which this room opens are some fine Italian vases. The Dining-Room contains a large picture by the younger Greatheed, the "Cave of Despair," as described in Spenser's "Faerie Queen," a subject which the young artist has treated with considerable power. There is here also a bronze equestrian statue of the Duke of Cumberland. The Small Dining-Room is adorned with pictures by the late Mr. Greatheed. The portrait of Napoleon was pronounced by the emperor's mother the most striking resemblance of her son that she had ever seen, yet Mr. Greatheed had only the means of seeing Napoleon at a public audience. There are three subjects from Shakspere :-King Lear and his Daughter, Macbeth and his Lady, and Shylock. In addition to these, there are copies, well executed, of the St. Jerome of Corregio, and of Diogenes, by Spagnoletto. This room also contains busts of John and Charles Kemble, and Mrs. Siddons and her daughter. Mrs. Siddons lived for some time at Guy's Cliff as waiting-woman to Lady Mary Greatheed.

A little beyond Guy's Cliff, on the opposite side of the Kenilworth road, is a small wooded eminence called BLACKLOW HILL, the scene of the summary execution of Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, the favourite of Edward II. Having surrendered himself, on a promise

of safety, to the insurgent barons, he was conveyed to Deddington Castle, near Banbury; which place being attacked by Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the unhappy prisoner was, after a mere show of resistance, delivered up to him. Warwick bore a deadly hatred to Gaveston, having been branded by him with the epithet of "the black hound of Arden." Gaveston was carried off to Warwick Castle, and thence to Blacklow Hill, where he was beheaded. On the moss-grown rock on its side may be seen the inscription, nearly illegible: "P. Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, beheaded here +1311." A stone cross erected by the late Mr. Greatheed adds materially to the picturesque beauty of the spot. On its base is the following inscription: "On the 1st of July 1312, in the hollow of this rock, was beheaded Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, the minion of a hateful king; in life, as in death, a striking instance of misrule."

HATTON is three miles from Warwick, and five from Leamington, on the Birmingham road, and about a mile from the station of the same name. This small village is noted as having been the residence of Dr. Samuel Parr, who was curate of the parish for forty years. It is to Dr. Parr's liberality and taste that the Church is indebted for many of its decorations. The stainedglass windows are much admired. The east window has a representation of the Crucifixion, and the figures of the apostles Paul and Peter. The north and south windows of the chancel have for their subjects the Agony in the Garden and the Ascension. There are also, in painted glass, figures of the Twelve Apostles, of Faith, Hope, and Charity, and portraits of Archbishops Cranmer and Tillotson. The church contains numerous monumental inscriptions, some of which are the work of Dr. Parr, and exhibit that sententious and

admirable classical style for which he was so distinguished. A tablet to his own memory is placed in the chancel. Dr. Parr was born in 1746 at Harrowon-the-Hill, and died here in 1825.

On the way to Hatton from Warwick, about two miles from the latter place, the tourist passes on his right the County Lunatic Asylum, an extensive and elegant structure in the Tudor style. It was erected at a cost of £50,000. It has a frontage of 700 feet, and can accommodate from 300 to 400 patients.

About a mile south from the Hatton station are the small remains of Pinley Abbey, a Benedictine nunnery, founded shortly after the Conquest.

WROXHALL ABBEY is three miles from Hatton, and six from Warwick, on the Birmingham road. Dugdale tells a romantic legend regarding its foundation. Hugh de Hatton, who held the lordships of Hatton and Wroxhall from Henry, Earl of Warwick, was taken prisoner in the Holy Land, where he had been serving against the infidels, and confined there for seven years. The good knight at length bethought himself of his patron saint St. Leonard, who appeared to him in a vision, and after making him vow to erect a house of St. Benedict, transported him miraculously to Wroxhall woods, not far from his own house. He fulfilled his vow by erecting a nunnery here, and making two of his daughters become nuns. At the Dissolution the abbey and its possessions were granted to Robert Burgoyne, who erected a mansion on its site. This mansion is in the form of a quadrangle, the western front of which was raised from its foundation by Robert Burgoyne, and the southern and eastern sides adapted from the remains of the previous building. The north side is occupied by the church or chapel, which seems to have been originally part of the cloisters. The manor was

purchased in 1713 by Sir Christopher Wren, the celebrated architect, with whose family it still remains. The Church is an ancient and picturesque building. Dugdale ascribes the date of its erection, or at least of its reconstruction, to the early part of the reign of Edward II. It is of the Decorated style, but without aisles. The ancient wood-carvings on the open seats and communion-chairs, and three carved stones, which have doubtless been brought here from some more ancient part of the buildings, will attract some notice. The tourist, however, will probably be most interested by the stained glass, which is of great antiquity and fair preservation. The large east window has lost all its original stained glass, and contains several shields of more recent construction. One very perfect window contains in the centre a figure of St. Benedict, with a crozier in his left hand, and holding up the right in benediction. At the bottom is an Agnus Dei, and on either side is a kneeling figure. A smaller window, also perfect, is filled with foliage. Two other windows contain fragments of ancient stained glass, one of them having a tolerably well-preserved representation of a male and female kneeling. There are no ancient monuments in the church, with the exception of a fragment of a monumental brass, representing a female figure with her hands joined in prayer. This is supposed to belong to the tomb of one of the abbesses, which was to be seen in Dugdale's time, and contained the following inscription:- "Domina Jocosa Breme, filia Johanis Breme, et Priorissa de Wroxhall, obiit xxi Junii, anno M. D. xxviii."

WOOTON WAWEN.

In the vicinity of HENLEY-IN-ARDEN.