beasts, Laurells flowers &c &c, and Cherubims, and Gilded and painted in severall parts. Warwick Castle is a stately building, its now the Lord Brooke’s house. You Enter thro’ two Large Courts into a noble Hall wanscoated, w^{th} in it is a Large parlour all wanscoated w^{th} Cedar, w^{ch} is full of fine pictures of the family and beyond that is a drawing roome and bed Chamber w^{th} good tapistry hangings; they are old but so good worke and so beautifull the Coullours still, you would admire it, and the worke so Curious all of silk that y^e very postures and faces Look Extreame lively and naturall, and the groves streames and Rivers Look’s very well on it. There was good velvet Chaires in y^e roomes and good Pictures. Within y^e bed Chamber is Closets, out of one you Looke to y^e river even at y^e End window, there is so greate a Levell you may see near 20 mile. Stowe in y^e Old you see w^{ch} is as farre, its all full of Enclosures and woods most of the Country. All these roomes are very Lofty and large and larger than most houses I have seen, the Gardens fine and many without Each other, w^{th} good gravell and grass walks, squares of dwarfe trees of all sorts and steps to descend from one walke to another, y^e whole of w^{ch} I saw at one view on y^e top of y^e mount, together with y^e whole town and a vast prospect all about, y^e mount being very high and y^e ascent is round to an agen securred by Cut hedges on y^e side y^e path. At y^e Entrance of y^e first Court y^e porter diverts you w^{th} a history of Guy Earle of Warwick, there is his walking staff 9 foote long and y^e staff of a Gyant w^{ch} he kill’d thats 12 ffoote long; his sword, Helmet and shield and breast and back all of a prodigious size, as is his wives jron slippers and also his horses armour and the pottage-pott for his supper—it was a yard over the top; there is also the bones of severall Beasts he kill’d, the Rib of y^e Dun-Cow as bigg as halfe a great Cart Wheele: 2 miles from the town is his Cave dugg out by his own hands just y^e dimention of his body as the Common people say, there is also his will Cut out on stone, but y^e letters are much defaced; these are the storyes and meer ffiction, for the true history of Guy was that he was but a Little man in stature tho’ great in mind and valour, which tradition describes to posterity by being a Gyant. Such will the account be of our Hero King William the third tho’ Little in stature yet Great in atchievements and valour. Ffrom Warwick we went towards Daventry all along part of the vale of y^e Red horse w^{ch} was very heavy way, and Could not reach thither being 14 mile. About 11 mile we Came to a place Called Nether Sugar—a sad village, we Could have no Entertainment. Just by it on the top of a steep hill is Shuggbery Hall a seate of S^r Charles Shuggberys who seeing our distress being just night and y^e horses weary w^{th} y^e heavy way he very Curteously tooke Compassion on