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GUY'S CLIFF

Volume 11 · 126 words · 1842 Edition

in Warwickshire, a great cliff on the west side of the Avon and the north side of Warwick, where in the time of the Britons there was an oratory, and in that of the Saxons an hermitage, and where Guy, earl of Warwick, is said to have retired after being fatigued with the toils and pleasures of the world, to have built a chapel, and cohabited with the hermit. This hermitage was kept up till the reign of Henry VI. when Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, established there a chantry, which derived its name from the king-maker, and, in memory of the famous Guy, erected a large statue in the chapel, eight feet in height, at the same time raising a roof over the adjacent springs.