Birmingham benefactors, 171 Boulton, Matthew, 165 Burne–Jones, Sir E., 169 Churches—St. John’s, Deritend, 169; St. Martin’s, 157–8, 168 cotton–spinning machinery introduced, 165 early fame for metal work, 159–60 Free Grammar School of King Edward VI., 158 Leather Market, 160 Leland’s description (1538), 158–9 “Lunar Club”, or “Soho Circle”, 166 in mediæval times, 158 modern, 171 name, origin of, 154 population at various periods, 163 Public Buildings, 171 Roman Catholicism, 170 sack and burning of, 36 situation, 157 Soho Works, famous, 165–7 streets, first paved, 161 trade in 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, 164–8 the Plague, 163 Watt, James, 165 Black Canons, 127 Bolingbroke, Henry, at Gosford Green, 95 Bonaparte, Napoleon, portrait of, 69 Boughton, Richard, 23 Boulton, Matthew, and the “Soho”, Works, 165 Brooke, Lord, 30 Browning, Mrs., and Warwickshire scenery, 2 Burne–Jones, Sir E., and Birmingham, 169 Burton Dassett, 31–2, 35, 199 at time of Civil War, 31 Beacon, 199 Church, 35, 199–201 Butler’s Marston, 32 Camden’s description of Warwickshire, 159 Cantilupe, family of, 242 Canute ravages Warwickshire, 12 Castle, Brandon, and the “Barons’ War”, 16 Catesby, Robert, and the “Gunpowder Plot”, 26 Charlecote, 21, illust., p. _233_ Charles I., 29 at Edge Hill, 32 Charles II., 103 Chineworth or Kenilworth, 129 Civil War, 102 War in 1642, 64 Clopton family, 235 Sir Hugh, 202, 208, 219 Compton family, the, 190 Compton Wynyates, 189–201 Coombe Abbey, 18, 97 Corn Laws, repeal of the, and Birmingham, 40 Cornavii in Warwickshire, 4 Cornelias Bungey, martyr, 25 Cotton–spinning, 165 Coughton Court, 27, illust., p. _16_ Coventry, 21, 36, 38, 89 architecture, mediæval, 104 Bablake Hospital, 119 Bablake School, 119 Charter of Henry III., 94 Churches—Benedictine Monastery, 105; Grey Friars, 104; Holy Trinity, 109; St. Michael’s, 95, 105, 108 constitution of Municipal Corporation, 94 county of, 96 Fair, 94 Feast of St. George, 97 festivals, 99 foundation, 89 Godiva, legend of Lady, 90 Guilds, Religious and Trade, 99 Coventry, “Hock Tuesday”, 99 in Domesday Book, 93 letters from Royal personages, 118 Mary Queen of Scots at, 101, 118 monasteries, 94, 98 “Mysteries”, 143 origin of name, 89 pageants, 98 Peeping Tom, 92 population in Domesday Book, 94; in 1510, 98 portraits of Royal personages, 117, 119 Priory, 96 Queen Elizabeth’s visit, 99 statues of Royal personages, 114, 115 the Civil War, 102 the stocks, 113 visit of Henry VI., 115 walls and gates, 94 Cromwell, Oliver, and Civil War, 33, 35 Cropredy and Civil War, 31–2 Cucking stool, 60 Cumnor Place and Amy Robsart, 135