GUY'S-CLIFF, (Warwickshire) a great cliff on the W. side of the Avon, and the N. side of Warwick, where, in the Britons
time, was an oratory, and in that of the Saxons, an hermitage, where Guy Earl of Warwick, who is said to have retired to
it after his fatigues by the toils and pleasures of the world, built a chapel, and cohabited with the hermit, and that
from thence it had the name. This hermitage was kept up to the R. of Henry VI. when Rich. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick
established a chantry here, and in memory of the famous Guy, erected a large statue of him in the chapel here, 8 feet in
height, and raised a roof over the adjacent springs. The chapel is in the p. of St. Nicholas, in the suburbs of Warwick,
and was granted by Q. Eliz. to John Coleburne, who sold it to Will. Hudson of Warwick, from whose family it went, by
marriage of his daughter, to Sir Thomas Beaufo of Emscote, in whose family it was about 100 years ago.