"on while her Majeftie pleafauntly fo "paffed from thence toward the caftl gate; "whereunto from the baze coourt over a "dry valley caft into a good foorm, waz "thear framed a fayr bridge of a twenty foot "wide, and a seaventy foot long, graveld for "treading, railed on either part with feaven "posts on a fide, that stood a twelve foot a "funder, thickned betweene with well pro"portioned pillars turn'd."

At this strange and whimsical entertainment, yet perhaps the most fumptuous that ever was offered by a subject to his sovereign, we find a Captain Cox appears to have been no inconfiderable actor; he is described, by Langham, as an "od man, by profeffion a "mason, and that right skilfull and with

great overfight in matters of storie." His library of romantic and humorous books is there mentioned, and is of fuch a length as almost to disturb the peace, at least to set an itching

itching the fingers of our black letter collectors, "Then," fays our author," he "could talk az much in an afternoon "without book az any inholder betwixt "Brainford and Bagfhot, what degree "foever he be. Befides thiz, in the field a "good marshall at mufters; of very great "credite and truft in the toun here; for he "haz been chozen aleconner many a year, "when his betterz have ftond by; and ever "quitted himself with fuch estimation, az

yet too taft of a cup of nippitate; hiz "judgment will be taken above the reft "in the parish, be hiz noze near fo read.

"Captain Cox cam marching on fo va"liantly before, cleen truft and gartered "above the knee, all fresh in a velvet cap "(Master Golding a lent it him), floorish"ing with hiz ton fwoord; and another *fens master with him: thus in the for"ward making room for the reft. After

"them,

"them, proudly prickt on formoft the "Danish launce Knights on hofbak, and "then the English:" after which tilting enfues, in which the Danes had twice the better, but in the end are victorious.

We have faid thus much of Captain Cox, as he appears to have been a person of fuch notoriety in the time of Ben Johnson, as to render him a fit fubject for his pen fifty years afterwards; for in his Masque of Owls, at Kenelworth, prefented by the ghoft of our hero mounted on his hobby horse, he says,

This captain Cox, by St. Mary,
Was at Bullen with King Hary;

And (if some do not vary)

Had a goodly library,

By which he was difcerned

To be one of the learned

To entertain the Queen here
When last she was feen here.

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And

And for the town of Coventry

To act for her fovereignty.
And for his fake the play

Was call'd for the fecond day.

ADJOINING to the church of Kenelworth stood the monaftery, founded about the fame period with that of the castle, and by the fame Geoffrey de Clinton, from whom it had large endowments and privileges: they were no less than a tenth part of all the eatables that were brought into the castle; a right to fish in his pool at Kenelworth with boats and nets one day in every week; together with all his lamb fkins throughout every his manours, as well thofe as should be killed to eat, as of others that might die cafually.

Or this priory little remains but a fragment of the wall, which is fufficient to denote its former extent. Part of the chapel, and a venerable ruin of the old priory gateway, called,

called, I know not why, Tantarra, is annexed in the following sketch.

Or this Gothic entrance there remains fufficient yet to give pleasure to the eye of the antiquary, and to recommend it to general notice. Within the last two months, in digging in this vicinity, fome valuable fragments of the foundation have been difcover