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newed the lease of this ruin, for such it was now become, to the Earl of Monmouth's daughter; and on the expiration of it, granted the manor to Laurence Lord Hyde, Karl of Clarendon, in whose descendant, the present Earl of Clarendon, it still remains.

No county in England is more famous for its

roads than Warwickshire; a comfort we were

fully sensible of when we contrasted them with

the stoney ones of Lancashire, and the sandy ones

of Shropshire; whose shocks and tiresomeness we

had experienced for the last three weeks. The

turnpike between Kenilworth and Warwick, live

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