We ascended a very steep hill to take a view of y^e Country and so Could see Coventry, and were just by Hillingworth Castle on y^e Right hand—much of y^e Ruines of y^e walls remaine still—and so Enter Warwickshire. The town of Warwick by means of a sad fire about 4 or 5 years since y^t Laid y^e greatest part in ashes, its most now new built, w^{ch} is w^{th} brick and Coyn’d w^{th} stone and y^e windows y^e same. There still remaines some few houses of y^e old town w^{ch} are all built of stone. Ye streetes are very handsome and y^e buildings Regular and fine, not very Lofty being Limited by act of partliam^t to such a pitch and size to build y^e town. Y^e ruines of y^e Church still remaines, y^e repairing of which is y^e next worke design’d; Y^e Chancell stands still in w^{ch} was all the fine monuments y^t were preserv’d from the fire; there is one monument of y^e great Earle of Leisters and his Ladyes in stone Curiously wrought, w^{th} their Garments, and painted and Gilded. There is another in marble of y^e Earle of Warwick, y^e statue Cut very finely, y^e face hands and forme very Lively, and under his head is a Role of Straw matting as you would suppose being Exceeding naturall Cut in Stone. In y^e middle stands y^e monument of y^e Earle y^t was regent in Ffrance and dyed there and was brought and buried here, his statue at Length in armour, but y^e Lines of his face and hands w^{th} y^e veines and sinews were so finely Cast and y^e very aire of his Countenance much to y^e Life or Like a Liveing man all Cast brass and Burnish’d very delicately y^t it Looks like Gold, all his armour very Exact and his arms are Cut finely at his head, and supporters at his feete, w^{th} ffigures and Images to adorne it; round the tombstone on y^e one side and Each End is 4 : and 2 y—at the End statues of y^e great men y^t were of his family, sons and Grand-Children, and on the other side are 4 Ladies of the family all Cast in the same Burnish’d Brass; they are in little and all in Religious habits w^{ch} formerly in ye tymes of popery and superstition most persons Coveted to dye in; their garments are folded in differing shapes and w^{th} many wrinklings and gathers w^{ch} is very exact and y^e more to be noted being all in such a stiff mettle as Brass and yet it Lookes Easye and natural. On y^e other side y^e Church in a little Chapple is a Large monument of Black and White Marble in manner of a bed w^{th} pillars, and its grated round—the pillars black marble—of some Nobleman w^{th} a Large Inscription round it, and one thing is noted of him there that he thought it his greatest Character to be Esteem’d a great ffriend and Companion of S^r Philip Sidney’s w^{ch} is but of poor availe to him now dead if he was not y^e friend of y^e great Jehovah—but such is y^e folly and vanity of y^e most of y^e world to be in Esteeme w^{th} y^e wise and great men of this world. There is delicate Carving about y^e walls and round y^e windows in stone all manner of Birds