Long Marston, 37 Lord Compton, illust., p. _169_ Lucy, Sir Henry, death of, at battle of Northampton, 21 Macready on Leamington, 150 Margaret, Queen, at Coventry, 115 Mary Queen of Scots at Coventry, 101, 118–19 Maxstoke, Castle of, 181–7 Priory of, 18, 181 Mediæval architecture, 104, 181 Merevale Abbey, 18 Monasteries, 19 Monastic institutions, 98 Montfort, Henry de, and Barons’ War, 17 Simon de, and Barons’ War, 16 Mowbray, Thomas de, 95 Murdock, William, inventor of gas lighting, 167 “Mysteries”, or sacred plays, 99 Mytton’s Jack, exploits at Leamington, 153 Nash family and Shakespeare, 224 Neville, Richard, 21 Newburg, Henry de, and Warwick Castle, 45 Newburgh, John de, 45 Oken, Thomas, 59 Packington Hall, 179–80 Old Hall, 31, 37 Parliamentarians, 32, 64 “Parliamentum Diabolicum”, 96 Parr, William, 60 “Peeping Tom”, illust., p. _73_, 92 Picts and Scots, 8, 44 Plague, the, 101, 163, 213 Plessetis, John de, 46 Prayer, Earl of Lindsey’s, 33 Priestley, Dr., 167 Quaint customs of Warwick, 66 Reform Bill, 39 Religious orders, 18–19, 94 Richard II., Play of, 95, 98 Rivers, Earl, execution of, 97 Robsart, Amy, 73, 126 Roman Catholic religion and Shakespeare family, 215 Roman occupation, 4 remains, 7 Roses, the Wars of the, 21 Rous, John, historian, 68, 90 Royalists, 31 Rugby School, illust., p. _240_ Rupert, Prince, 30, 33, 34, 36 Ruskin, John, and Leamington, 151 Salford Priors, illust., p. _9_ Satchwell, Benjamin, Leamington’s poet, 149 Saxon nomenclature, 13 Saxon occupation, 14 remains, 14 Scott, Gilbert G., R.A., 111 Scott, Sir Walter, 126, 128, 135 Seckington, 9 Secret hiding places, 176, 197 Shakespeare, John, 211, 212, 214 Shakespeare, William, 26, 120 arms and motto of, 216 birth of, 26, 212 birthday of, 211 birthplace of, 211, 219–26, illust., p. _185_ bust of, 222, 233 character pictures, 238–9 death of, 219 early life of, 216 family of, 211–14, 217–18 memorial buildings, 237 portraits of, 222, 224, 238 relics of, 223 wedding, 217 “Shovel Board”, game of, 193 Siddons, Mrs., 69 Snitterfield, 211, 212, 214 Soho Works, Birmingham, 165 Southam, 31, illust., p. _32_ St. John, Knights of, 55 Stocks at Coventry, 113 Stoke, 96 Stoneleigh Abbey, 18, illust., p. _105_
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