GUY'S Cliff, in Warwickshire, a great cliff on the west side of the Avon and the north side of Warwick, where in the Britons time was an oratory, and in that of the Saxons an hermitage, where Guy earl of War- C e wick, Guy's Cliff, who is said to have retired to it after his fatigues by the toils and pleasures of the world, built a chapel, and cohabited with the hermit; and that from thence it had the name. This hermitage was kept up to the reign of Henry VI. when Rich. Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, established a chantry here, and in memory of the famous Guy erected a large statue of him in the chapel eight feet in height, and raised a roof over the adjacent springs. The chapel is in the parish of St Nicholas, in the suburbs of Warwick.
GUY'S Cliff
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