Note 171 — Chapter IV
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Nichols, iii., p. 434. In the harangue addressed to the king on his entrance into Warwick, there is this passage:—“This castle, alsoe moste desirous to receive you, the greatest guest that ever she entertained, would speake in noe lower key, but that her late disgrace abateth her courage. After shee became the jaylor’s lodge, interchanging the goulden chaines of her noble erle’s with the iron fetters of wretched prisoners, given over to be inhabited by battes and owles, she is ashamed to speake before you.” Nichols’s, vol. iii., p. 431.
This speech was transcribed for Nichols’s Progresses, by the late William Hamper, Esq., F.S.A., from the Black Book of Warwick, a book preserved by the corporation.
Sir Fulke Grevill spent 20,000l. in restoring the Castle with its pleasaunce and gardens. To his care the preservation of that interesting structure is due.