he had six sons (all of whom died young) and two daughters-Anne, married to William Earl of Kingston, and Doddington, married to Charles, Earl and afterwards Duke of Manchester; he died February 17, 1676, and was succeeded by his brother,

FULKE GREVILLE, who soon afterwards was chosen Recorder of Warwick, and on the renewal of the charter of that corporation, was by the charter constituted recorder for life, He married (during his brother's lifetime) Sarah, daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood, Knight, Alderman of London, by whom he had four sons :-Francis, Algernon, Doddington, and Robert; and seven daughters. He died at Twickenham, Oct. 22, 1710, in the 60th year of his age.

FULKE GREVILLE, son of the above-named Francis (who died eleven days before his father), and Anne Wilmot, daughter of John Earl of Rochester, survived his father and grandfather but five months, dying at University College, Oxford, in February 1711, and was succeeded by his brother,

WILLIAM GREVILLE, who, soon after he came of age was chosen Recorder of Warwick. He married Mary, second daughter and co-heiress of the Hon. Henry Thynne, who was only son to Thomas, Viscount Weymouth; by which lady he had three sons:- -William, who died at the age of four months; Fulke, who died at the age of twentytwo months and six days; and Francis, who succeeded him. He died July 28, 1727, aged 33.

FRANCIS GREVILLE succeeded his father as Lord Brooke at the age of eight years, and, as soon as he came of age, was chosen Recorder of Warwick; July 7, 1746, he was raised to the dignity of an earl, by the title of Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle; July 16, 1749, he was appointed

Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Warwick; in March, 1753, he was made Knight of the Thistle; November 13, 1759, created Earl of Warwick; and obtained a special grant, April 2, 1760, for bearing the crest of the ancient earls of that name, namely:

"a Bear erect, argent, muzzled gules, supporting a ragged staff of the first."* His lordship married in May, 1742, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton, by which lady he had three sons-George, who succeeded him; Charles Francis, and Robert Fulke; and five daughters:-Louisa Augusta, married to William Churchill, Esq.; Frances Elizabeth, married to Sir Henry Harpur, Bart.; Charlotte Mary, married to John, Lord Garlies ; Isabella and Anne, who died unmarried. He died July 6,

1775.

GEORGE GREVILLE, Earl Brooke and Warwick, LordLieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Warwick, Recorder of the Borough of Warwick, F.R.S., &c., succeeded his father. To this nobleman the town is indebted for some of its most valued improvements. He erected the beautiful bridge across the Avon, opened the approaches to the town, formed the present rocky road to the castle, enlarged the park, and surrounded the castle

Rous gives the following origin of the device (a bear and ragged staff) used as ensigns by the Eails of Warwick from the earliest periods:-"The former," he 66 says, was taken from the name of one of the British Earls of Warwick, ARTHGAL, which signifies in the British language a Bear: and when another British earl, named MORVI, had vanquished a giant in a duel, with a young tree plucked up by the roots, and stripped of its branches, in token of that event, to the bear was added the ragged staff."

with its spacious lawns and luxurious shrubs; he married April 1, 1771, Georgiana, only daughter of James, Lord Selsey, who died April 3, 1772, leaving one son, George, who died at the age of fourteen. He married secondly, July 2, 1776, Henrietta, daughter of R. Vernon, Esq., and Evelyn, Countess of Upper Ossory, and sister to Granville, Marquis of Stafford. By this lady he had three sons:Henry Richard, the present earl; Charles John, MajorGeneral in the army (one of England's most intrepid officers during the trying period when she opposed a world in arms;" he served his country with unflinching assiduity and untiring zeal in her campaigns in India, Egypt, the Peninsula, France, &c., and richly earned his sovereign's thanks, his country's gratitude, and the friendship and admiration of his companions in arms), Colonel of the 38th foot, K.C.B., &c., and for many years M.P. for the borough of Warwick; who died in London, Dec. 2. 1836; and Robert, who died in 1802; also five daughters-Elizabeth, who died in 1806; Henrietta, married to Thomas, Earl of Clonmel; Caroline; Augusta, married to the Earl of Aylesford; Louisa, and Charlotte. His lordship died May 2, 1816.

HENRY RICHARD GREVILLE, Earl Brooke and Earl of Warwick, Baron Brooke of Beauchamp Court, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Warwick, Colonel of the Warwickshire Militia, K.T., D.C.L., &c. succceded to the title and estates on the demise of his father. His lordship married, Oct. 21, 1816, Sarah, relict of John George, fifth Lord Monson, and only daughter of John, second Earl of Mexborough. By this amiable and accomplished lady his lordship has one son, George Guy, Lord Brooke, Hon. M.A., born March 28, 1818, who completed

his education at St. John's College, Oxford, and is now M.P. for the southern division of the county of Warwick-whose high and honourable bearing, and, above all, his kindly feeling towards the poor, have endeared him to the hearts of all who know him.

The olive branch of peace has long succeeded war and bloodshed in our happy isle-no longer does the trembling serf flee to the embattled walls belonging to his feudal chief for safety and protection. But, amid the change, Warwick Castle has its chief still bold to shed his blood in the field in defence of his country, and in the senate to maintain his country's rights; while the countess, with heart "open as day to melting charity," employs her fortune and her interest to alleviate distress, remove want, protect the orphan and the widow, support the aged, and smooth the pillow of dying worth; these are noble substitutes for feudal pomp, and often cause the eye of the grateful to be "gem'd by a tear," while the heart breathes a prayer to heaven that the noble earl and his benevolent countess may long live to enjoy health and dispense blessings to the poor.

CREVILLE FAMILY.

CREATIONS. Baron Brooke, January 9, 1620; Earl Brooke, July 7. 1746; Earl of Warwick, November 27, 1759.

ARMS.-Sable, on a Cross with a border engrailed, or, five Pellets. (See title page.)

CRESTS. First, out of a ducal coronet gu. a swan, wings expanded, ar. beaked of the first ;-Second, on a wreath of his colours, a bear erect, ar. muzzled, gu. supporting a ragged staff of the first.

SUPPORTERS.-Two swans, with wings expanded, ar. legged, sable beaked, and ducally gorged, gu.

CHIEF SEAT.-Warwick Castle, co. of Warwick.

THE present approach to the castle was formed at a considerable expense, with great taste, by the late earl. It commences with a recently-erected embattled gateway, called the Porter's Lodge, on the eastern side of the town of Warwick, and fronting the road leading to Leamington. Passing through the Porter's Lodge the visitor enters a fine broad winding road, deeply cut through the solid rock; the ample branches of the variegated and thickly planted cop pices forming a canopy above, with the moss and ivy creeping in fertile wildness beneath, form a picture romantic and pleasing. Proceeding about 100 yards, a sudden turn in the road brings you to the outer court (formerly a vineyard, and where, it is said, so far back as the time of Henry. IV., the rich clusters of grapes came to considerable perfection): where the stupendous line of fortifications, with the "cloud capt towers " breaks suddenly upon the sight in all its bold magnificence, seeming (firmly joined as it is to its rocky foundation) to bid defiance to the all-subduing power of time. On a nearer approach the whole front of the outer works becomes clearly defined; on the right appears the fine polygon tower dedicated to Earl Guy, having twelve sides, walls ten feet in thickness, a base of thirty feet in diameter, and rising to the height of 128 feet. It is machicolated, and, from its exactness of design and