Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . Ill I-< zoI-a oo Compton-in-the-Hole 157 the past; it is almost a chain. It speaks of revelry, romance,priestcraft, and bloodshed ; and its out-of-the-world situation isnot its least charm. No rambler in this classic land with aneye for the quaint, the ancient, and historic, should omit tobend his steps towards Compton-in-the-Hole—a veritable War-wickshire Sleepy Botes to **Zhc XTantivs XLtot (See page 42.) ^HERE are very few survivors in Warwickshire of the passengers by this famouscoach. The Rev. Henry J. Torre, of Norton CurUeu,
Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . Ill I-< zoI-a oo Compton-in-the-Hole 157 the past; it is almost a chain. It speaks of revelry, romance,priestcraft, and bloodshed ; and its out-of-the-world situation isnot its least charm. No rambler in this classic land with aneye for the quaint, the ancient, and historic, should omit tobend his steps towards Compton-in-the-Hole—a veritable War-wickshire Sleepy Botes to **Zhc XTantivs XLtot (See page 42.) ^HERE are very few survivors in Warwickshire of the passengers by this famouscoach. The Rev. Henry J. Torre, of Norton CurUeu, near Warwick; Galton, of Claverdon Leys; and Mr. J. Gibbs, of Cutlers Farm, WoottonWawen, all, happily, still living, knew the coach well, and frequently travelledby it. The drivers of the coach, in their day, were a man called Black Will andSalisbury. The former, whose name is mentioned in the coaching books of thetime, used to drive The Tantivy, on alternate days, from Birmingham to was one of the quickest guards in England at putting on and takingoff the skid, or slipper, of the coach without going on the road to do it. Hewas very popular at Oxford, and used to wine in the colleges. A night coach running from Birmingham once had both leaders down about10 oclock, near Edstone Lodge (the birthplace of Somerville, the poet of TheChase), through having tumbled over a bullock which was lying
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