New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-29
which suits so well with kindly increduhty'
thought of John Millions lines

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| Warwickshrc swarmcd with conspirators wiie
that Gunpowdcr Plot was in progress The Lion
Inn, at Dunchurch, was the chief tryst OF the cap
tains who wcrs to lead on their forces and capture
| the Princess Elizabeth and seize the throne ana
the country. after the expected exploslon-whicn
never came And when the game was up ana
Fnwkes in captivity, it was through WarwlcKshire
that the racing and chasing" was deetcst ana
widest, till the desperate scramble 1or HE anu
safety went down in blood at Hewel Grange Nari-
Gus houses associated with that plot are still eN-
tant in this neighborhood, and when the scene
shifts 10 London and Tarnets gallows 1t Is easily
possible for the patient antiquarian 10 trcad Ill
almost every footprint of that great conspiracy
Since the Irish rufans began TO toss dynamite
nbont in public buildings it has been deemed es-
sential to take especial precautions against the
danger of explosions, in oil such places Us inc
Houses Of Parliament, Westminster Abbey ana the
Tower Of London. Much more damage than the
newspapers ever recorded was done by those eN-
plosjons that occurred some time ago, in the Tower
and the Palace. At present you cannot enter even
/ into Palace Yard unless connected with the public
! business or authorized by an order; and if you
visit the Tower without special permit, you will
be restricted to very few sights and places Your
wandercr was fortunately the bearer of the card
of Sir Ponsonby Fame, secretary to the Lord
Chamberlain on q recent prowl through the old
Tower, and, therefore, unusually favored
by the beefeaters who pervade that structure
Those damp and gloomy dungeons were displayed,
wherein so many Jews persisted mserably, in the
reign of Edward the First; and Little Ease was
shown-the cell in which for several months Guy
Fawlles was incarcerated. during CeclIs willy IN
vestigation of the Gunpowder Plot part of the
rear wall has been knocked out, afording access
to the adjacent dungeon; but as it originally stood,
the cell did not give room for man to lie down in
il and scarce gave room for him TO stand upright.
The massive door, of ribbed and iron-bound oak,
still solid though would make q capital
picture. A poor, stealthy cat was crawling about
in these subterranean dens Of darkness and horror,
and was left locked in there when we emerged.
In ST, Peters on the green-that little cemetery
so eloquently described by Macaulay-they came
some time ago upon the collins Of Lovat. Kilmar-
mock and BaImerino the three Scotch Lords who
persisted upon the block. for their completely with
| the rising for Charles Edward Stuart, the Pre-
| tender, in 1745-7. The collins were much de-
cayed. The plates were removed and may now be
viewed. in a glass case, on the church wall just
| over against the spot where these unfortunate
gentlemen are buried. One is of lead and is in the
form of large SCROLL extended. The other two
are oval in shape, large, and made OF pewter
Much royal and noble dust is heaped together be-
| meath the stones Of the chancel-Anne Boleyn
Catherine Howard, Lady Jane Gray, Margaret
| Duchess Of Salisbury, the Duke Of Monmouth the
Earl of Northumberland, Essex Overbury VOL
sey's Cromwell, and many more. The body of the
| infamous and eyecrable Jcffreys was once buried
here, but it has been removed.
ST. Mary's Church at Warwick has been restored
within the last three years and now it is made too
| cbo MIA Nouo oh fhrop encp
for a sight Of the Beauchamp Chapel, in which are
entombed Thomas Bcauchamp Earl of Warwick
the founder of the church; Robert Dudley, Earl
Of Leicester in whose Latin epitaph it is stated
that "his sorrowful wife Laettia daughter Of Fran
els Knolles through a sense of conjugal love and
fidelity, hath put up this monument to the best
and dearest of husbands" Ambrose Dudley, elder
brother To Elizabeths favorite, and known as the
! Good Earl Che rclinquished title and possessions
TO Robert and that Fullze Greville, Lord Brooke.
who lives in fame, he desired to live, as the
friend of Sir Philip Sidney" There many
more, but these perhaps are the most famous and
considerable. One odd epitaph placed there re-
cords Of William Viner, steward TO Lord Brooke.
that he man entirely Of ancient manners.
and to whom you will scarcely find equal.
particularly in point of liberaty. He
added to the number Of the heavenly inhab-
his friends, in his 10th year. the 2sth of
April, A. D. 639.' Another, placed for himself
! by one Thomas lIewett during his own lifetime.
modestly describes him a most miserable sin
ner" Sin is always miserable when it knows
itself Still another, and this in good verse; by
Gervas Clifton, gives tender tribute to Laetitia
a. the excellent and pious Lady Lettice"), Countess
Of Leicester who died on Christmas morning.
| GA:
E. ."shc that In her younger years
Matched with two great English peers;
She that did supply the wars
With thunder, and the Court with stars;
| She that in her youth had been
| Darling to the maiden oucene,
| TIL she content 10 quit
Her favor for her favoillc
| While she lived she lived thus.
TIL that God, dis pleased with US,
Suffered Ter at last to fail,
Not from Him, but from us ALL
A noble bust of that great thinker and exqui-
site poet Walter Savage Lander, has lately been
! placed on the west wall Of st. Marys Church. He
native of Warwick. and is fifty commemo-
rated in this place. The bust is Of alabaster, and
is set in an alabaster ARCH with carved environ
mcnt, and with the family arms displayed above
The head Of Lander shows great intellectual power
rugged and yet gentle. Coming suddenly upon
the bust, in this church, is forcibly and pleas
antly reminded of that fine attribute Of Sweet and
gentle reverence in the English character which so
invariably expresses itself all over this land in
honorable memorials to the honorable dead. No
rambler in Warwick olnits to explore Leicester's
Hospital or to much as he OF the Castle
This glorious old place has long been kept closed
for fear Of the dynamite iend; but now it is once
more accessible / walked again beneath the
stately cedars and along the bloom-bordered ave-
nues where Joseph Addison used to wander
and mediate and travcrsed again those opulent
state apartments wherein many royal and noble
l
canvas Of liolben and Vandyke. There is n
wonderful picture, in of those rooms, OF Went
worth, Earl of STAFFORD, when a young mana
face prophetic Of stormy life and baleful struggles
and hard and miserable fate You may see the
helmet that was actually worn by Oliver Cromwell,