WArwickshire is an Inland County, very pleasantly situate, well Wooded, and incumbered but with few Hills: It is Bounded with Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire: It abounds with Cattle, Corn, Wooll, Cheese, Butter, pleasant Pastures, Fish and Fowl. It contains 5 Hundreds, in which are 158 Parishes, 14 Market Towns, 4 Castles, 10 Rivers, 10 Bridges, 13 Parks, and 2 Forrests: It sends Members to Parliament 6, viz. Coventry City 2, Warwick 2, and 2 Knights of the Shire.
Warwick, the Shire Town, is of very Antient foundation; held to be Builded by Gurguntus a British King, 375 Years before the Birth of our Saviour; the Castle yet retain∣ing very many marks of great Antiquity, and Memorable for the Residence of the Renowned Guy Earl of Warwick, where is kept a Vessel called his Pot, and usually filled with good Liquor to be Drunk by all comers, on memorable Days. It is commodiously situate on the River Avon.
Coventry joyntly with Litchfield make a Bishoprick; on one of its Gates, called Gifford-Gate, is the Bone of a Monstrous Beast fastned, said to be that of the huge Boar Guy slew, who with his Snout turned up a deep place now called Swanes Mear.
At Wolney, Anno 1469, King Edward the Fourth was taken Prisoner by the great Earl of Warwick, and his Forces scattered. At Backlow Hill, Pierce Gaviston was taken and Beheaded. The other Places of Note are Henly, Southam, Sutton, Atherstone, Kyneton, Rougby, Aul∣chester,