In arranging this work according to the order adopted by Mr.
Murray, Birmingham (with Aston and Edgbaston), forms the 20th
and last division of the county, it may, therefore, be deemed necessary
to explain the motive for dwelling so slightly upon so important a
portion of the county, in this place. A great number of the foregoing
pages, were professedly intended to wear a commercial feature; it was
on that account, considered to be in better character and keeping to
describe the principal town at the commencement, rather than at the
close of this volume. The reader is already aware, that the forego-
ing mode has been adopted, and that Birmingham has been poetically
introduced at page 118. In taking leave of this seat of the mechanic
arts, it may not be inappropriate to adopt the language of the oracle
and prophecy of Woden, extracted from Mr. Guy's much admired
poem of Birmingham and its vicinity*.
"Had we, O Birmingham, for thee design'd
A trade that's partial, and a sphere confiu'd;
Thoud'st been a city, near some stream or shore,
To bless some single district, and no more.
But thou must minister to thousand wants,
Of Cities, Countries, Islands, Continents;
Hence central be thy station, thus thy town
Must make each port around the coast her own.
Where, as from nature's chosen local seat,
Thou bidst the tides at equal distance wait;
Whose waves, ere long, obedient to commands,
Shall bear thy labours to remotest lands."
* A New Edition of "Birmingham and its vicinity, a poetical fragment, dis-
covered in a Literary Arcanum, now given in modern English, from the origi-
nal manuscripts, by Mr. Joseph Guy," is now in the press.
Bilton, 737
Billesley, 547
Binley, 728
Birmingham, history of, 28, 117..300-
lines written upon,by JohnMorfitt, Esq.
118-its character, name and site, 119,
122, 123-its historian, Hutton, 119..
132-battle of, with Prince Rupert's
forces, in the year 1643, 121-soil, 122
-air, 123-longevity, instances of, 123,
124-water, 133-baths, 134-earls of
Birmingham, history of, 120, 135..149
-hospital of St. Thomas the apostle,
144-gild of the holy cross, 145-lords
of the manor, the manor-house, and
moat, 149-Leland's description of the
town, 140, 150-buildings, 151-lea-
ther-hall, 151-roads, 152- ancient
houses, 152-early proprietors, 152,
153-boundaries, 153-first streets, 153
-battle of Birmingham, an account of,
154..167-plague in 1665, 167—pro-
gress of the useful arts, 167-number
of streets, houses, and inhabitants,
at and from the Restoration, to the
year 1824, 169, 170 -new improve-
ments, market, town-hall, 171 -
names of streets, origin of some of
them, 172..174-royal hotel, 175-St.
Philip's-church, 175, 176-blue-coat
school, 177-Thomason's manufactory
and show-rooms, the Warwick vase,
medals, &c. description of, 177..181-
mining and copper company, 182-
new library, 182-school of medicine,
184-institution for promoting the fine
arts, 183-friends' meeting-house, 184
-dispensary, 185-bankers and branch
bank, 186, 189, 190, 220, 788-Wesleyan
chapel, 186—oldlibrary,186-fire-office,
186-elegant shops, &c. 186, 187-athe-
næum, 187-pantechnetheca, 188, 189
-hen and chickens hotel, 190-free
grammar school, its charter; &c.
191..208 Fox's wire manufactory,
208-Lady Huntingdon's chapel, 208
-savings bank, 208-Baptists' (Cal-
vinistic) meeting-house, 209 - philo-
sophical society, 210-crown copper
company, 209 - assay office, 209-
Phipson's pin manufactory, 209--ar-
chitectural taste, 210-theatre, 210,
211-general post office, 211, 212–
Portugal-house, 213-society for the
encouragement of arts, 213,214-Christ
church, or the free church, 214, 215-
infant school, Aun-street, 216..219-
Old-square, 220-Priory, 220-Gal-
tou's-bank, 220-Ebenezer chapel, 221,
222-parish poor-house, 222-Thorpe
and Co.'s pin manufactory, 223-St.
Mary's chapel, 224-Roman Catholic
chapel, (St. Chad's) 224-Methodists'
chapel, 224-St. Bartholomew's cha-
pel, 224-gun-barrel proof-house, 224,
225-Phipson's rolling mills, 226-
Unitarian meeting-house and Sunday
schools, 226-St. Peter's church, 227—
public office, 227--St. Martin's church,
228-Nelson's monument, 229 - Mr.
Hutton, and court of requests, 230,
231, 232- town-hall, public-office,
market-house, and corn exchange, 232,
236-lady-well baths, 236..239-old
meeting-house, 239 Presbyterian
place of worship, 239-Sunday schools,
239-bronze, &c. manufactories, 240
Swedenborgian chapel,Calvinistic Bap-
tists, 241 Scottish kirk, 241-St.
Paul's chapel, 241-Mr. Francis Eg-
ginton, an account of him, and of his
paintings upon, and staining of, glass,
241..244-Mr. Charles Pemberton, his
paintings on, and staining of, glass,
244-Wesleyan chapel, Constitution-
hill, 245-floor cloth manufactory, 246
-papier maché manufactory, 246—
general hospital, 247-Dr. Ash, 247—
musical festival, 247, 248-humane so-
ciety, 248-asylum for the infant poor,
248, 249-steam flour mills, 249—rol-
ling mills of Muntz and Purden, 249
-Phoenix iron foundry, 250-manu-
facturers of buttons, lathes, tools, and
silver, plated, japanned, and other ar-
ticles, &c. 251-Digbeth, 252—Unita-
rian charity school, 252-female Lan-
casterian school, 252-Smithfield, 252
-weighing machine, 252-Deritend,
253-St. John's chapel, 253-old hous-
es, 253-manufactory for colouring
papers, 254-Trinity chapel, 254—Eli-
zabethan-house, 255-Camp-hill, 254,
255, 256-Baptists'-chapel, 256-Lom-
bard-house, 256-Beardsworth's horse
and carriage repository, 256, 258, 259—
Fuller's distillery, 256-metallic hot-
house manufactories,256, 257, 259, and
275-national school, 259-royal Lan-
casterian school,259-Jews'synagogue,
260-Birmingham canal company, 200
-Mr. John Baskerville, an account
of him, his will, &c. 260..272—union
rolling mills, 272, 273-Roman Catho-
Ire chapel, 272, 273-brewery, 272,
274-riots, 272-Mr. Cooke's newly-
invented brass and iron tubes and rol-
lers, &c. 272-manufactories, foun-
dries, &c. Broad-street, 273-the late
Charles Lloyd, Esq. 273-Crescent,
274-Zion chapel and Sunday school,
274-Hockley-abbey,275-Glass-hous-
es, 276-barracks, 276 — Ashted cha-
pel, 276-Holt family, 276.. 280-eagle
foundry, 280-wharfs, manufactories,
gas and glass works, &e. 281-Hazel-
wood-school, 282 - monument, or
"Perrott's Folly," 282- Edgbaston
deaf and dumb asylum, 284–Edgbas-
ton church, 285-Edgbaston-hall, 286
-Worcester and Birmingham canal
company, 286-St. Thomas's church,
Holloway-head, 286, 287-relics of
antiquity, 287-government of Bir-
mingham, court leet, &c. 288, 289-
population and wealth, 289, 290-ex-
penditure and endowments, 290—pro-
visions, 291-flour mills, 291-religion
and politics, 292-war and peace, Mr.
Pratt's interesting account of, 293, 294
-Soho, 294, 295 — trade, 296, 297 –
gold, silver, pearl, ivory, bone, &c. 289
-iron, steel, copper, brass, &c. 298-
buttons, 298-variety of articles cast,
299-type founding, 299-typographic
art, lines upon, 300-directory of Bir-
mingham, and classification of trades,
301..408, 409..467-coach directory,
Cesterover, 32
Chadsunt, 628
Charlcott, 24, 680
468..471-waggons and caravans, 472
..480-canal conveyances, 480..483-
post-office, arrival and departure, de-
livery, &c. 484— bankers, 484-hack- Chelmscote, 614
ney coach regulations, 485 — magis-Cherington, 618
trates and clerks to magistrates, 485 Cheswick, 685
-commissioners of bankrupts, and of
the street act, 486-civil officers, 485
-places of worship, 486..488-annual
Chesterton, 20, 681, 682
Chilvers Coton, 564
Churchover, 740
value, 788—surgical institution, 788- Claverdon, 509
new banking-house, 788-Norwich uni-Clay-hall, 685
on, 788-mechanics' institution, 789- Clifton-on-Dunsmoor, 739
magdalen asylum, 789-new royal ho- Clopton-house, 520, 528, 546
tel, 789-old royal hotel, 789-new Cloud, 699, 700
buildings in New-street, 789 - Cobley, 496
market and town-hall, 790-improve- Codbarrow, 685
ment of streets, new streets, new Coleshill, 29, 575..578
roads, hackney coach regulations, &c. Coombe abbey, 32, 729, 730
790,791-new divisions of Hemlingford Coombe Fields, 32, 729
hundred, 791.
Compton, Fenny, 623
Birdingbury, 752
Compton, Long, 616, 617
Compton Murdak, or Compton Verney,
24, 628, 629
Biographical sketches of eminent meu
born in Warwickshire, 106..118
Birmingham division, 572
Birmingham (town) division, 788., 794
Bishopston, 546
Bishops Tachbrook, 682, 683
Blacklow hill, 24, 687
Blythe-hall, 571
Bourton-on-Dunsmoor, 744
Bowen pool, 580
Bridgetown, 536, 537, 538
Brailes division, 613..620
Bromwich, Castle, 279, 572..574
Bromwich, Little, or Ward End, 573
Brookhampton, 627
Brownsover, 737
Compton, Scorfen, 630
Compton Wyniates, 614, 615, 616
Copston, 724
Corley, 571
Cosford, 740
Coughton, 498
Coundon, 732
Coventry, 29-division of, 755..784-
county of the city of, 785..787-direc-
tory of, 765..787
Cranley, 699, 704
Crowenhall, 685
Cryfield, 699, 704
Cubbington, 702
Dodwell, 547
Dorsington, 548
Dosthill-houses, 609, 610
Drayton, 547
Drayton, Michael, the poet, notice of,
Dugdale, sir Wm. his life, 46..71-his
preface to his Warwickshire, 72, 73, 74,
-his divisions of the hundreds, 74..79
Eatington, Upper and Lower, 632
Edge-hill, battle of, 625, 626, 627
Cave, Edward, biographical sketch of, Elmdon, 597
107..112
Castle Bromwich, 279, 572..574
Emscote, 703, 704 ·
Erdington, 279
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