_Description of the Plan of the Castle, page 243, as it appeared at the
Queen’s visit in 1575._
Described at Page
1. Cæsar’s Tower, Kenilworth 214
2. Lancaster Buildings 224
3. Leicester Buildings 231
4. Base Court, or outer ballium 239-40
5. Lake ib.
6. Chase ib.
7. Gallery Tower 227
8. Tilt-Yard ib.
9. Mortimer’s Tower ib.
10. King Henry VIII.’s Lodgings 229
11. Inner Court ib.
12. The Strong, or Mervyn’s Tower 226
13. Kitchens 228
14. Pleasance 229
15. Great Hall 220
16. Leicester’s Chamber fronting the Lake 231
17. Gardens 227
18. Orchard ib.
19. Swan Tower 229
20. Great Gateway 231-2, 257
21. Lunn’s Tower 235
22. Water Tower ib.
23. St. Lowe Tower adjoins Mervyn’s Tower,
S. W., and is not seen in this point.
Page 245, “append.” The reader is here referred to Melvin’s account of
Elizabeth.
(1) The <g>Leicester Chimney-Piece</g>, introduced at page 237. This
justly-admired specimen of art is of alabaster, finely sculptured with
bears and rugged staves, and the monograms of Queen Elizabeth and the
Earl of Leicester. When freshly gilded, and placed in a becoming
situation, it justly deserved, says a writer of taste, to be eulogized
as a work of decided skill and merit. Having happily escaped the
Cromwellian devastation, this mantel-piece, together with the oaken
pillars which surmount it (Wyld), were removed from one of the principal
apartments or presence-chamber of Leicester Buildings, to the room which
they now occupy--an oak-pannelled chamber in the old Gate-House. (2) The
view introduced at page 253 represents--along with the Tower in the deep
shadows of evening--a view of all that remains of the ancient moat on
that side of the building. (3) The cut, page 256, is an allegorical
subject of Leicester and Amy Robsart--the <g>Dove and Snake</g>,--or Innocence
and Subtlety.
AUTHORITIES:--Camd.--Dugd.--Early
Chronicles.--Strutt.--Spelman.--Harris.--Warner’s Illustr. Crit.
and Hist.--Lodge’s Mem.--Brewer’s Hist. of Warw.--Monast. and
Baron.--Monum. Vetusta.--Speed--Harding--Grafton--Holinshed--Secr.
Mem. of Dudley--Parsons--Melvin--Pict. Hist.--Clarendon--Illustr.
of Kenilw.--Guides and Topograph.--Sir W. Scott’s Notes.--Memoirs
of Dudley Fam.--Annal. Elizab.--MS. Notes.--Collins’ P.--Civil and
Milit. Trans. 1570-80--etc. etc.
[Illustration: WALTHAM ABBEY.]
[Illustration]